Students have participated in home visits and have developed new programs and projects to support South Bronx families and their children. The newest program in which Cornell University students are participants is the Banana Kelly New Visions School of Learning Through Community Building, an experience based learning high school in which students are developing policies, curriculum and pedagogy, and organizing parent and community participation. As a partner with Banana Kelly , Urban Semester program students are fully integrated into the operations of Banana Kelly programs. They are given the opportunity to serve in a community based organization as full fledged members of the staff and contribute to the efforts to build sustainable community infrastructures. Banana Kelly and South Bronx community members learn through formal and experience based learning situations developed by Cornell students in collaboration with and support from Banana Kelly staff.
Students participate in all meetings and take leadership in projects of their own choosing.
Banana Kelly staff and program participants from the South Bronx have visited the Cornell University campus where they gave lectures, presentations, and workshops and participated in seminars. By participating together in programs and projects Cornell University students and Banana Kelly and South Bronx related people benefit from each other's contributions. This mutuality is building bridges between Cornell University and the South Bronx in which ideas are circulated through the interaction of students and South Bronx community people. All programs use experience based learning pedagogies to facilitate the growth of learning opportunities for staff and community members. As a response to the changing social and economic demographics of the area, Banana Kelly developed FACE in 1991 as the organization's human services arm and educational resource.