The synod last year increased funding for higher education ministries and entered into a partnership to provide a chaplain at Bloomfield College, a Presbyterian college within synod bounds. The Presbyterian Youth Connection provides leadership training for youth across the synod to complement that provided each spring for Youth Advisory Delegates from the presbyteries. The synod provides Wurffell Sills student loans interest-free to students from the Northeast enrolled in colleges, universities, technical schools, or theological seminaries. The synod annually contributes funding to two major youth conferences sponsored by presbyteries. Partnership grants from the synod provide funding to programs for children throughout the synod's 22 presbyteries.
Areas addressed include hunger, housing, child care, immigration, and welfare.
The Synod of the Northeast has 1,200 churches with 255,000 members. Synod Staff Rev. Dr. Robert H. White, Jr.,synod executive Rev. Dr. N. Scott Cupp, mission associate, church development and redevelopment Rev.