| 2000 Grants -- over $80,000 |
| Selma Greenberg Memorial Fund Grant |
| Nassau Community College |
$1,200 |
| Funding to sponsor a conference for 8th grade girls who excel in math, science or technology, and their guidance counselors to encourage them to pursue non-traditional careers. |
| This memorial fund grant has been supplemented by grant monies from the Long Island Fund of Women and Girls. |
| Enhancing skills and abilities of women and girls, particularly those necessary for leadership, positive self image, and increased earning power. |
| Something Old, Something New of South Country Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To help pay rent for their newly established location on the grounds of a local church. This organization brings together women of various backgrounds and ethnicities to learn to sew, weave and pursue creative activities, resulting in opportunities to generate personal income. |
| Children and Family Mental Health Services, Inc. |
$2,475 |
| To help fund the salary of a part-time coordinator of the Golf Mentoring Program providing girls within the foster care system with mentors, using professional golf lessons as a focal point for meetings and discussion. |
| Lynbrook Public Library |
$4,050 |
| To support a mother/daughter reading club facilitated by a psychologist and clinical social worker so that mothers and daughters can share the joy of reading while addressing issues of self-esteem and relationships in a guided and positive manner. |
| Suffolk County Association of Women Police |
$2,000 |
| To fund operational costs to promote the organization whose limited membership is currently developing ways to work with male co-workers in an environment where fraternal organizations flourish. |
| Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women |
$3,000 |
| To support seminars for women interested in re-entering the work force after time away, or switching career paths, utilizing the expertise of the LI Center membership. |
| Center of Living Light |
$2,500 |
| To initiate the Greenport Community Circle that will teach women the principles of Reiki techniques eventually identifying individuals who can begin their own circles and increase their earning power. |
| Children's Scholarship Fund |
$2,500 |
| To provide general support for the organization that provides girls from low income Hispanic families with scholarships and school supplies to enable them to attend a school that will provide much needed focus on educational excellence and academic opportunities. |
| East End Kids, Inc. |
$3,725 |
| To fund a program that reaches out to Hispanic and African American mothers and daughters, to increase skills in math and science through hands on exercises, travel outside of the area, and interaction with older women who have excelled in these areas. |
| Promoting physical and mental health and ensuring the safety of women and girls. |
| Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program |
$3,500 |
| To support a year long writing workshop for women with breast cancer and their families to allow women to express their emotions and promote the healing process. |
| People with AIDS Coalition of Long Island, Inc. |
$4,900 |
| To support an ongoing program to provide weekly education/support services for HIV infected/affected women incarcerated in the Nassau and Suffolk County Correctional Centers. |
| Committee on Domestic Harmony |
$3,500 |
| To continue helping immigrants from South Asia to overcome domestic violence and to expand services to immigrant women from the Middle East and Africa. |
| Women's Center of Huntington |
$1,000 |
| To help alert older women to the Gentle Bends exercise program designed to keep older women feeling fit, relaxed and more energized. |
| LI Educational TV Council, Inc. WLIW21 |
$1,200 |
| To help fund the annual broadcast rights for three instructional TV service programs that advance the education of women and girls and are available to local teachers at no cost. |
| The Retreat |
$3,000 |
| To support school programs that teach girls to recognize the early signs of abusive behavior and provide them with role models for healthy, positive and safe relationships. |
| Suffolk Region of Hadassah |
$3,000 |
| Support for the Check It Out health education program that teaches girls to take responsibility for their own bodies and promotes breast health awareness, diet, nutrition and exercise for a healthy lifestyle. |
| Theatre Three Productions |
$4,000 |
| To produce a videotape based on an original one act play entitled Bound Words that will be used to stimulate discussion at workshops addressing the growing problem of rape in our culture. |
| Child Abuse Prevention Services |
$3,000 |
| To expand the Date Rape Prevention Program initially funded last year that presents information to high school students in a forum that fosters awareness and discussion. |
| Family Residences and Essential Enterprises |
$4,000 |
| To develop specialized support services educating and empowering women who suffer from mental illness and who are survivors of sexual abuse, assault and/or domestic violence. |
| Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence |
$2,800 |
| To fund the second year of an educational program at the Nassau County Correctional Facility that provides formerly battered women with the tools to help them avoid abusive relationships upon their release. |
| Midwifery Practice - University Hospital and Medical Center of Stony Brook |
$2,500 |
| To help establish a doula training program to support women who are located in medically underserved areas of Suffolk County, particularly eastern Suffolk. |
| Addressing systemic problems that have a negative effect on women and girls, such as discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, age, or physical disability. |
| For Our Children and Us, Inc. (FOCUS) |
$3,300 |
| To buy computer equipment and software to set up a website to serve as Long Island's first web resource for family court assistance. |
| Long Island Crisis Center |
$5,000 |
| To fund the second year of a support group for young lesbian and bisexual women with a focus on women of color. |
| Herstory Writers Workshop |
$2,700 |
| To fund increased outreach to women 18-25 and 65 and older, allowing groups to explore the systemic forces that have shaped the lives of women for generations. |
| Engaging women and/or girls, particularly those who have not traditionally been involved in philanthropy, in understanding the importance of philanthropy in furthering women's position in society. |
| ETS Youth Division; NSFRE Scholarship; LITAC Fall Series Scholarship |
| To teach women and their daughters how to raise funds to keep services in their community and support continued participation in activities. |
| Highlighting the issues of gender equity in education with programs that encourage girls and young women to pursue math, science, engineering, technology and sports, or initiatives that deal with problems of harassment. |
| Girl Scouts of Suffolk County, Inc. |
$3,350 |
| A continuation of the Girl Power Project that introduces low income girls to computer skills through a series of training classes, this year with greater range and depth of experience to include a one-week summer technology day camp. |
| Center for Science Education of St. John's University |
$4,000 |
| To provide a stipend to a female grad student to maintain a website with the objective of encouraging young women on Long Island to enter studies and pursue careers in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. |
