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LICF Announces July Grants Awards -- $350,000

July 27, 2007

Long Island Community Foundation (LICF) has just awarded close to $350,000 in grants to local nonprofit organizations, targeting an array of causes and communities across the region. By the close of the year, the LICF will have distributed almost $1 million in competitive grants to regional organizations – on top of the millions granted annually by the Foundation at the suggestion of donors who do their giving through the LICF.

“In addition to supporting a program to ensure that new funding for Long Island’s public schools will be used in a truly equitable manner,” Suzy D. Sonenberg, executive director, said, “these LICF grants tackle critical issues like immigrant access to quality health care, affordable housing, and the impact of gentrification on communities. The range of LICF funding is often staggering. In this grants cycle, we also funded the LEAP Initiative, a collaborative venture among public, private, corporate and faith-based funders to help organizations in Long Island’s most distressed communities work more effectively individually and in partnership with others. Add to this mix, funding for environmental programs, services for the homeless and hungry, and a project to eliminate women’s computer illiteracy, and we have an exciting grants cycle.”

Long Island Community Foundation was founded in 1978 by The New York Community Trust. The LICF offers generous Long Islanders an economical and flexible alternative to a private foundation and commercial gift fund. In 2006, the LICF distributed $7.4 million through a combination of donor suggestions and competitive grantmaking.

JULY GRANTS

Funding for competitive grants comes from The New York Community Trust, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, Greentree Foundation, and individual donors who make funds available for these purposes.

ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
$40,000 for the Long Island component of a statewide advocacy organization seeking to assure that the new funding formula it helped bring about will be implemented in a truly equitable manner.


CENTRAL BELLPORT CIVIC ASSOCIATION
$20,000 to strengthen and support a grassroots organization giving voice to the community it serves.

COMMUNITY TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE CENTER (CTAC)
$63,000 toward a new technical assistance initiative that will provide intensive support to 12 Long Island nonprofit organizations in its first year, chiefly those led by and working on behalf of people in communities of color.

GATEWAY YOUTH OUTREACH
$20,000 to expand the group’s community organizing component, with emphasis on preparing the Elmont community for a proposed visioning project.

ISLAND HARVEST
$14,000 for the organization’s food rescue operations that feed the hungry and needy in the Freeport area.

LONG ISLAND HOUSING PARTNERSHIP
$5,000 for a report on the impact of multi-family and attached housing developments (specifically the number of school-age children generated from such developments) on local school districts in Nassau County.

NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF GRANPARENTS FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
$18,500 to advocate for grandparents, other relatives, and the children in their care.

NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK RESEARCH CENTER
$24,000 toward the Local Action on Global Climate Change project, which promotes energy efficiency among public officials, businesspeople and decision-makers on Long Island.

NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION, INC.
$50,000 to support the “Portal” Project, working with three Long Island hospitals to eliminate barriers that prevent immigrants from seeking and receiving health care.

NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
$20,000 support for the organization’s “climate action” agenda in Suffolk County – the promotion of a set of discrete actions that the county can take to locally address climate change.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION, INC.
$10,000 to improve and expand outreach and services to Latinas in Glen Cove.

ROOSEVELT PUBLIC LIBRARY
$20,000 organizational development support for a public library that is creatively endeavoring to provide a range of programs and resources to the community it serves.

SEPA MUJER (Services for Women)
$20,000 to strengthen an organization offering education, advocacy, and leadership training services to Latinas suffering from domestic violence.

VISION LONG ISLAND
$15,000 to promote smart growth solutions to issues of gentrification and displacement while advancing quality affordable housing on Long Island.

WESTBURY EVEN START
$6,700 to support a literacy program for low income and illiterate women.