| 2001 Grants -- over $100,000 |
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| Selma Greenberg Memorial Fund Grant |
| Goudreau Museum of Math in Arts and Science |
$4,095 |
| To establish a weekly math club for middle school girls to diminish the gap in mathematics education based on racial, ethnic, economic and gender differences. |
| Enhancing the skills and abilities of women and girls, particularly those necessary for leadership, positive self-image and increased earning power. |
| Children and Family Mental Health Services, Inc. |
$2,437 |
| To help fund the Golf Mentoring Program providing girls from disadvantaged backgrounds, including foster care, will be aligned with female mentors, using professional golf lessons as a focal point for meetings and discussion |
| Colonial Youth and Family Services / Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To fund a series of workshops for pregnant and parenting teens in South Brookhaven. These organizations have agreed to work together as they submitted very similar proposals for the same geographic area. |
| Long Island Council of Churches |
$3,500 |
| To aid women inmates discharged from the Nassau County jail to successfully re-integrate them in the community, to become productive citizens where they live and work. |
| National Association of Mothers Centers |
$2,300 |
| To develop a curriculum for the Mother / Daughter Leadership Program that can be presented by local facilitators. This program enhances mother / daughter relationships and encourages girls to take a more active role in their own lives. |
| Nontraditional Employment for Women |
$2,000 |
| To prepare women to enter the skilled blue collar trades by providing physical fitness and job readiness training. |
| Suffolk County Perinatal Coalition |
$4,000 |
| To fund a doula training program that will provide low-income women with marketable skills. |
| UCP of Greater Suffolk, Inc. |
$3,500 |
| To develop a database of women and girls with disabilities who will design and participate in a mentoring program for this population. |
| Waiting to Exhale Group |
$2,000 |
| To support a self help group of minority women in the Huntington Station area, who are primarily head of household. This group is under the auspices of the Family Service League. In addition to supporting one another, this group offers educational programs for local teens and assists community seniors. |
| The Workplace Project |
$5,000 |
| To renew a grant for the Domestic Workers Campaign Against Exploitation that organizes immigrant Latina workers. |
| Promoting physical and mental health, and ensuring the safety of women and girls. |
| Adults and Children with Learning Developmental Disabilities |
$3,000 |
| To fund a program that will support new and expectant mothers with developmental disabilities to guide them through child care issues. There is no program like this currently available to this population. |
| Child Abuse Prevention Services |
$2,000 |
| To expand the offering of the organization's developmentally appropriate Sexual Harassment Prevention Program for middle school students and Date Rape Prevention Program for students in local high schools. |
| Committee on Domestic Harmony |
$2,500 |
| To continue to fund this organization's efforts to educate immigrant women with limited language and social supports about domestic violence. |
| Delta Minerva Life Development Center |
$2,500 |
| To fund a conference for adolescent girls dealing with the topic of gang activity in Nassau County schools and the options available to them. |
| Herstory Writers Workshop |
$3,000 |
| To fund their collaboration with the Postpartum Resource Center of New York to provide memoir writing workshops for women suffering from postpartum depression. |
| Hispanic Counseling Center |
$3,500 |
| To fund a program seeking to break the cycle of domestic abuse by focusing on the children who witness abuse committed against their mothers. |
| Long Beach Latino Civic Association |
$1,500 |
| To engage immigrant Latinas by providing them with reliable information about resources within the community to support both themselves and their family. |
| Long Island Minority AIDS Coalition |
$3,000 |
| To fund the printing of a booklet of personal stories by women of color that seek to encourage other women to reduce their risk of HIV /AIDS infection. |
| Mid Island -Y- Jewish Community Center |
$3,000 |
| To fund a twelve week program for adolescent girls diagnosed with diabetes to improve their self-image and introduce components of a healthy lifestyle. |
| Planned Parenthood of Nassau County |
$5,000 |
| To fund an outreach and educational program about cervical and breast cancer for women of color. |
| The Retreat |
$2,000 |
| To establish a curriculum for the Hands Are Not For Hitting program that can be used by teachers in local school districts who have requested to have it included in their classroom instruction. |
| Turner Dance |
$3,500 |
| To help fund an artistic, multi-disciplined performance called Gifts and Goblins about 'the female experience'. Diverse women will participate in an artistic exploration of our difference and our fears and ways to over come them. |
| Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk |
$4,000 |
| To improve the organization's ability to provide safety planning, counseling, and advocacy to both the deaf and hearing impaired, and to immigrant communities. |
| Addressing systemic problems that have a negative effect on women and girls such as discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, age, or physical ability. |
| American Association of University Women |
$1,000 |
| To expand the Sister to Sister summit to include parents as well as girls 12-16 and to focus on training computer internet safety. |
| Hofstra University |
$4,600 |
| To fund a research project in the Roosevelt School District to examine the school experiences of a set of 6th grade African-American and Latina girls during the 6 years that NYS has directed the district. |
| Pride for Youth / LICC |
$3,500 |
| To fund a continuing creative arts group for lesbian and bi-sexual women that meets weekly for discussions, art projects and community services projects. |
| The Women's Project |
$2,700 |
| To fund a workshop that offers children alternatives to traditional fairy tales, by developing and featuring new stories where women are role models. |
| Engaging women and/or girls, particularly those who have not traditionally been involved in fundraising for charity, in assuming a more active role in philanthropy and/or in understanding the importance of philanthropy in furthering women's position in society. |
| Boys and Girls Club of Bellport |
$4,800 |
| To fund a project that identifies women role models in the community, and teaches girls about photography and graphics in order to create a calendar featuring these women to sell in the community. |
| 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. |
| Citizens Environmental Research Institute |
$4,000 |
| To fund the Summer Field Experience for minority and under-served girls between 9 and 16. This program promotes career and interests in science and the environment through hands-on field experiences. |
| Dowling College |
$4,000 |
| To fund a program that introduces young women in grades 10-12 to the world of aviation and the aerospace industry. |
| East End Kids, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To fund a program entitled Robotics and Technology for girls from 8-14 in which they will build a sound/impact robot and a control panel-driven robot. |
