About Carver Center

Transform Lives and Strengthen Our Community

At the Port Chester Carver Center, our commitment to dignity, opportunity, and empowerment isn't just something we believe in — it's something we put into action every day. This guiding principle is more than an idea; it’s a promise that informs and drives every program we create.

Carver Center

Adapting to Community Needs and Empowering Families

Our Mission

To help our community thrive through programs that nourish, educate, and empower.

Our Vision

To create opportunity for all to learn, work, and thrive.

Our Core Values

Dignity

We welcome everyone with kindness and care.

Integrity

We are trustworthy and honor the commitments to those we serve.

Inclusion

We respect each other and embrace equity, justice, and belonging.

Growth

We embrace opportunities to learn, improve, and make an impact.

Leadership

We provide expertise and pursue excellence in all we do.

Collaboration

We employ teamwork to build strong and lasting partnerships.

Carver's Impact

Your Support Makes Our Work Possible

How We Nourish

Households Served in the Past Year in Our Carver Market

Market Visits in the Past Year

Pounds of Food Distributed in the Past Year

Households registered for our Dinner at Noon program

Daily Meals for children in our Afterschool Programs

How We Educate

Elementary school students enrolled in our afterschool program

Teens enrolled in our Teen Center

Of Teen Center participants are first-generation students

How We Empower

Students enrolled in our US Citizenship Program

Clients receiving support through our Case Management Program

Emerging young adults receiving one-on-one support through our Teen Center

Low-income youth receiving employment and workforce training

Strategic Plan

A Roadmap to Increase Our Impact

In 2024, Port Chester Carver Center launched a Strategic Plan following a year-long process that included a community needs assessment.

Community Needs Assessment

Strategic Plan Executive Summary

Carver's History

Creating Opportunity for All

The Port Chester Carver Center was founded to meet a simple but powerful need: to ensure families in Port Chester have access to support, opportunity, and a place where they belong.

What began as a neighborhood effort has grown into a multi-service community center serving thousands of residents each year. While our programs have expanded, our purpose has remained constant. We exist to help all learn, work, and thrive.

Today, the Carver Center provides access to food, early childhood education, youth development, workforce readiness, aquatics, and family support. These services are intentionally connected because families do not experience challenges in isolation, and Carver Center stands committed to working alongside our families to find pathways to thrive.

Our work is grounded in long-standing relationships, cultural respect, and a deep understanding of the community we serve. Many families come to the Carver Center through generations, reinforcing the trust that defines our role in Port Chester.

We believe meaningful change happens through consistency and care. By showing up day after day. By listening first. By building pathways forward alongside our neighbors.