GRANTS TO ADDRESS BROAD CRITICAL ISSUES
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$523,300 |
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ECONOMIC JUSTICE
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$47,000 |
Progressive America Fund
For a campaign on New York State tax reform, started by the new Long Island Social Justice Coalition, to correct the disproportionate burden between the state’s wealthiest and poorest residents. |
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$30,000 |
Center for Working Families
To conduct a survey on the need for a paid family leave benefit after the birth of a child, illness or injury to a family member, or other family emergency. |
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$17,000 |
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| EDUCATION |
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$50,300 |
Institute for Student Achievement
To divide Hempstead High School into five “small learning communities” and offer a wide range of support to students, teachers and parents focused on improving student performance and graduation rates. |
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$18,000 |
Project Grad Long Island
For an educational enrichment program in the Westbury School District enabling students to graduate from high school and go to college with scholarship assistance. |
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$25,000 |
Children’s Orchestra Society
For scholarships for economically disadvantaged students to receive lessons and participate in an orchestra for specially talented young people. |
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$7,300 |
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| ENVIRONMENT |
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$231,500 |
Neighborhood Network Research Center
For the Local Action on Global Climate Change project and the Clean Energy Task Force, which is working with towns, villages and other governmental agencies to endorse Energy Star home standards and to establish clean energy action plans. |
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$24,000 |
One Region Fund
Support of a tri-state collaborative fund at The New York Community Trust focused on promoting transit solutions, especially affordable transit-centered housing development. |
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$30,000 |
Stony Brook Foundation - Humanities Institute
To launch a three-year collaboration between Stony Brook University and the Village of Port Jefferson to address the urgent issue of climate change through a ‘go green’ initiative. |
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$12,500 |
The Trust for Public Land
To conduct an objective analysis of the economic and fiscal effects that parks and open space have on Nassau and Suffolk Counties. |
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$80,000 |
Peconic Baykeeper
To continue and further develop the Baywatch Program, which measures, compiles and sets quantitative standards for assessing the overall health and viability of Peconic and south shore estuaries. |
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$10,000 |
Friends of the Bay
To prepare a comprehensive Watershed Action Plan for the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor estuary, engaging the community to identify priority items to protect and improve the ecological integrity of the estuary. |
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$15,000 |
Long Island Progressive Coalition
For a broad-based public education, organizing, and advocacy effort to support re-powering Long Island’s power plants. |
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$30,000 |
Sustainable Long Island
For Sustainable Long Island’s brownfields redevelopment program, which educates and convenes government agencies, local residents and developers to clean up contaminated properties and redevelop them for productive use by the community. |
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$30,000 |
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| HEALTH CARE |
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$120,000 |
| Nassau County Health Care Corporation |
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$100,000 |
Nassau University Medical Center
For a project to identify Nassau County’s uninsured and provide them with a no-cost “home” for all of their medical and health care needs. |
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Long Island Organizing Network
For congregation-based organizing to improve access to health care in Babylon. |
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$20,000 |
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| HOUSING |
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$25,000 |
Long Island Progressive Coalition
For a “YIMBY” (Yes In My Backyard) campaign designed to organize public support for new affordable housing projects throughout Long Island. |
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$25,000 |
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| LEADERSHIP FOR LONG ISLAND |
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$15,000 |
Molloy College - Energeia Partnership
To enable selected nonprofit leaders to participate in this leadership training initiative for regional stewardship centered around social justice, human dignity and environmental protection. |
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$15,000 |
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| GRANTS HIGHLIGHTING CRITICAL ISSUES ON L.I. |
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$34,500 |
Hofstra University School of Communication
Scholarship for seven masters’ level film students to conceive and produce an hour-long documentary to advance knowledge, cultural understanding and social action on one or more of the critical issues facing Long Island. |
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$22,500 |
Rudaitis Media - Cinema Arts Centre
Toward production of a documentary film that explores the views, history, issues and influence of our nation’s suburban communities in regional and national issues. |
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$12,000 |
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GRANTS TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES AND POPULATIONS DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED
BY THE BROAD CRITICAL ISSUES |
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$117,000 |
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| IMMIGRANTS |
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$37,000 |
La Fuente, A Tri-State Worker & Community Fund
For the Long Island Civic Participation Project’s efforts to forge partnerships with organized labor unions to protect and enhance the rights and working conditions for immigrants. |
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$20,000 |
Workplace Project, Inc.
To educate immigrants on their legal rights and provide practical information if they are subject to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid or arrest. |
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$17,000 |
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| LOW-INCOME PEOPLE |
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$65,000 |
Empire Justice Center
For the Empire Justice Center at the Touro Law School’s Public Advocacy Center, to provide legal services to protect the rights of poor people who can’t get adequate legal services and representation. |
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$18,000 |
Greater Gordon Heights Civic Association
Funds Administrator: Vision Long Island
Toward the salary of a community organizer responsible for overseeing community revitalization efforts and addressing critical community issues in this underserved hamlet. |
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$15,000 |
Island Harvest
For the organization’s food rescue operations that feed the hungry and needy in the Freeport area. |
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$15,000 |
Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee
To provide legal assistance to low-income and minority homeowners, enabling them to avoid foreclosure and remain in their homes. |
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$17,000 |
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| PARENTS AND CHILDREN |
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$15,000 |
Middle Country Library Foundation
To bring the two libraries serving Copiague and Valley Stream into the Family Place Network of 34 public libraries throughout Long Island that provide a wide range of services for parents and children, including promoting maternal and child health. |
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$15,000 |
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| GRANTS TO ENHANCE THE CAPACITY OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO ADDRESS BROAD CRITICAL ISSUES |
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$422,500 |
Adelphi University - School of Social Work
For the Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership to provide consulting services to strengthen select nonprofit organizations on Long Island. |
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$25,000 |
Children's Museum of the East End
To support new leadership as the Museum diversifies its donors and sources of revenue to ensure long-term viability. |
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$15,000 |
Community Training Assistance Center
For intensive management assistance to a limited number of critical Long Island nonprofit organizations. |
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$255,000* |
Erase Racism
To strengthen the organization so that it can expand its efforts to eliminate structural and institutional racism on Long Island. |
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$25,000 |
Hispanics in Philanthropy
To participate in the New York Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities and bring additional funding to Long Island based Latino-led and Latino-serving organizations. |
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$45,000 |
Long Island Immigrant Alliance (LIIA)
To strengthen the principal coalition advocating on behalf of immigrant rights on Long Island. |
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$20,000 |
Long Island Fund for Women and Girls
Operating support and consulting assistance related to a staff leadership transition at the LIFWG. |
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$22,500 |
Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja
To enable a community theatrical arts program, focused on social change, to hire its first salaried staff person. |
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$15,000 |
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| *Figure includes contributions for this grant from JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Pritchard Fund, LIUU Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. |
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