| 2002 Grants -- Over $127,000 |
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| Selma Greenberg Memorial Fund Grant |
| North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center's "The Place" |
$3,500 |
| To support a math mentoring program for middle school girls in the Westbury School District provided in a workshop format that also emphasizes why math is important and how it is used by professionals. |
| Proceeds from this memorial fund were supplemented by funding from the LIFWG to fulfill the grant request. |
| 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. |
$2,500 |
| Utilizing golf as an intervention, girls from foster care will be paired with an adult female mentor to foster leadership skills and begin planning for their futures. |
| EMG Health Communications with the Haitian American Family of Long Island |
$4,000 |
| To provide Haitian-American women and girls in the Elmont area with leadership skills necessary to break cycles of mental and physical abuse and combat the male-dominated society within this community. |
| Hi-Hello Child Care |
$2,500 |
| To begin a program titled "Empowering Working Mothers to be Advocates for Themselves and Their Families" with a focus on minority, Spanish-speaking single parents. |
| Huntington Youth Bureau Development Research Institute |
$4,000 |
| To develop a young women's video production group that will use television and theatre to highlight the serious issues in the community such as discrimination, drug use, and teen pregnancy and give young women a voice in the community. |
| Long Island Council of Churches |
$3,500 |
| To support their program "Women at the Well" for Female inmates recently released from the Nassau County jail. |
| Long Island Women in Technology Resource Center |
$2,500 |
| To provide funding for a new organization that will educate, inform and assist women who are pursuing careers in technology. |
| Sisters Divinely Connected Ministry |
$3,225 |
| To support a mentoring program for young girls 10 - 13 in the community of Wyandanch utilizing group discussions, seminars, workshops and field trips. |
| Something Old, Something New |
$3,500 |
| To create and market a print and online catalog of members' work to promote individual and organizational self-sufficiency. |
| Promoting physical and mental health, and ensuring the safety of women and girls. |
| PRONTO of Long Island, Inc. |
$3,500 |
| To support PRONTO's girl scout troop that targets at risk Hispanic teen girls for leadership training and the mainstreaming of productive young women. |
| Hispanic Counseling Center |
$3,500 |
| To achieve the systemic change necessary to break the cycle of domestic violence in the Hispanic community by working with abused mothers and their children who have witnessed abuse. |
| Literacy Volunteers of America - Nassau Chapter |
$2,500 |
| To work in collaboration with 1 in 9 to develop and disseminate an educational brochure about breast health and breast cancer specifically written for women who are reading below sixth grade level. |
| Long Island Minority AIDS Coalition |
$4,000 |
| To fund a brochure with specific messaging to women age 50 and over due to the increasing volume of older women contracting HIV/AIDS. |
| North Fork Women for Women Fund |
$3,000 |
| To provide support to the more than 500 lesbians on the East End of Long Island who are facing emergency health situations and difficulties caused by aging, illness or disability, and who have low incomes or inadequate healthcare. |
| Planned Parenthood of Hudson Peconic Inc. |
$4,000 |
| To support the Speak Out Wyandanch program which is an ongoing effort to empower low-income women of color with advocacy and leadership skills. |
| Postpartum Resource Center of New York Inc. |
$3,000 |
| To continue the Healing Through Writing approach to women recovering from postpartum depression. |
| The Maurer Foundation for Breast Health |
$4,000 |
| To provide partial funding for a new demonstration model to support the Early Intervention High School program. |
| The South Fork Community Health Initiative |
$3,660 |
| To provide funding for the MammaCare system of early detection of breast cancer to be introduced to the migrant labor force on the East End of Long Island. |
| Addressing systemic problems that have a negative effect on women and girls such as discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, age, or physical ability. |
| FOCUS |
$2,750 |
| To publish a newsletter about the family court process for LI women who do not otherwise have access to posted information on their website. |
| Long Island Crisis Center - Pride for Youth |
$3,000 |
| To fund a facilitator for weekly discussions, art projects and community service projects for lesbian and bi-sexual young women. |
| Momma's Inc. |
$3,500 |
| To help fund a social worker to support young mothers from Momma's House in their family court proceedings to establish paternity and start receiving child support. |
| Pal-O-Mine |
$3,500 |
| To fund the Girls Equestrian Movement, a full complement of recreational, educational, and therapeutic riding activities that will be offered to girls with disabilities to promote their well-being. |
| Highlighting the issues of gender equity in education with programs that encourage girls and young women to pursue math, science, engineering, technology and sports. |
| Citizens Environmental Research Institute |
$4,000 |
| To fund the Summer Field Experience that promotes career and interests in science and the environment through hands-on interactive field experiences for under-served girls 9 - 16. |
| Dowling College |
$4,000 |
| To fund a summer program for girls to encourage them to pursue careers in aviation and the aerospace industry by exposing them to actual flight and female pilot role models. |
| East End Kids, Inc. |
$4,000 |
| To fund a summer program entitled Robotics II that engages girls from 8-18 with hands on training in areas of electronics and robotics and the building of robots and laptop computers from scratch. |
| Girl Scouts of Suffolk County Inc. |
$3,000 |
| To fund the Girl Power Program that focuses on building and maintaining girls' interest in acquiring computer skills and providing them with female role models in the technology field. |
| Establishing initiatives that deal with problems of harassment in schools or the workplace, or the rise of bullying and/or gang related violence. |
| Child Abuse Prevention Services |
$4,000 |
| To enhance their bully prevention program for middle school students with a pilot program for girls on relational aggression. This program will reach a minimum of 5,000 students. |
| During 2002 we solicited proposals under our Gender Equity in Education program for initiatives that deal specifically with gender issues in school and the incidences and consequences of gender-based bullying and related behaviors. |
| Gender Equity in Education Grants |
| Delta Minerva Life Development Center |
$3,000 |
| To convene a second all-day conference for adolescent girls to counter negative pressures related to gang activity in schools and help them employ strategies for resisting these negative pressures. |
| Greenport High School |
$1,330 |
| To fund a peer mediation program engaging older high school girls to work with younger middle school girls to discuss gender issues and to address their questions. |
| Riverhead High School |
$2,170 |
| To train teachers serving as peer mediation advisors to educate young women on their rights and to provide information about how to address harassment through appropriate courses of action. |
| The Gay Straight Alliance/Murphy Junior High School |
$2,500 |
| To support a project that will address anti-gay harassment by educating teachers and by providing forums for open communication between parents and students in the Alliance. |
| William Floyd Union Free School District |
$1,000 |
| To fund a violence prevention program targeted at gender based bullying and harassment focusing on 7th and 8th grade female students. |
| This year we also solicited proposals that reflect the heightened concerns and outreach by organizations and agencies that are dealing with the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. These proposals addressed: |
| Anti-discrimination efforts and support services for Muslim, South Asian, Arab, and immigrant women and girls; programs for low-income women and women who have lost their jobs due to the economic impact of the attacks; and initiatives focused on ensuring that women's voices are included in the political process and economic decisions. |
| We are deeply grateful to the Women's Funding Network and the Kellogg Foundation who provided us with this funding. |
| COPAY, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To provide culturally and linguistically appropriate supportive counseling, therapy and psychiatric care to Iranian and/or Hispanic women in the Great Neck area who were affected by the events of September 11th. |
| Committee on Domestic Harmony |
$5,000 |
| To continue their program of outreach to women who are the victims of domestic abuse and those needing support resulting from pressures and issues arising from the past year since September 11th. |
| Long Beach Latino Civic Association |
$3,000 |
| For an educational outreach program for Hispanic women and girls, supporting the need of this community for reliable information and the ability to orient themselves in the community. |
| Mary and Elizabeth Center |
$6,500 |
| Women of all faiths will come together for mutual understanding and support by meeting at least monthly over lunch in a setting that will encourage dialogue and interactions that are multi-ethnic and multi-generational. |
| Touro College Jacob D. Fuschsberg Law Center |
$3,500 |
| To cover the cost of a summer stipend to be known as the LIFWG Public Interest Fellowship that will be awarded to a student who devotes summer work to a public interest organization focused on women's advocacy or assistance. |
| Women's Center of Huntington |
$2,000 |
| To provide a place for grandmothers who have had to take the place of their grandchildren's parents to discuss their concerns, thereby promoting the physical and mental health of these older women. Special outreach will be made to women who have become primary caretakers due to the events of September 11th. |
