About Us What We Do Get Involved Get Help News Donate Blog Contact Client Stories Bruce I was Executive Director of a nonprofit organization for over a decade, but due to the financial crisis our agency was forced to close at the beginning of 2009. I never thought I would be unemployed in my mid 50s...

About Us What We Do Get Involved Get Help News Donate Blog Contact Client Stories Faina Faina is a 68-year-old immigrant from the Former Soviet Union who shares a one-bedroom apartment with her husband. Living solely on an income of Social Security and Food Stamps, the elderly couple faced great dif...

About Us What We Do Get Involved Get Help News Donate Blog Contact Client Stories Manuel I was a victim of identity theft eight years ago while running a successful bakery. I only discovered this when automatic payments from my bank account to my credit card increased dramatically. I disputed the ch...

About Us What We Do Get Involved Get Help News Donate Blog Contact Staff Directory Yisroel Schulman, President & Attorney-in-Charge, NYLAG Yisroel Schulman is the Co-Founder, President and Attorney-in-Charge of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). Under his leadership, NYLAG has grown fr...

About Us What We Do Get Involved Get Help News Donate Blog Contact Client Stories Hannah Hannah is a 92-year old widow and a Holocaust survivor. After the German invasion, she was forced to live and work in a ghetto in Poland, and then spent the second half of the war in hiding. Shortly after libera...