| 2004 Grants -- $150,000 |
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| Selma Greenberg Memorial Fund Grant |
| National Center For Disability Services -- Henry Viscardi School |
$4,800 |
| To encourage girls with physical disabilities to pursue careers in science and technology by providing job shadowing experiences and presentations from female science professionals on their personal career paths. |
| CATEGORY 1 -- Focusing on ensuring that women's voices are included in the political process, especially concerning decisions and choices that affect them. |
| Community Housing Innovations, Inc. |
$2,500 |
| To provide voter registration and advocacy training for young mothers in homeless shelters. |
| Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. |
$4,000 |
| To engage young women in the political process providing lobbying training and bringing women students from Suffolk County to meet with their legislators on issues that affect their lives. |
| Pronto of Long Island, Inc. |
$2,500 |
| Funding for two comprehensive workshops and follow-up sessions that provide civic and political education. |
| The Workplace Project |
$5,000 |
| Support for the development of women's leadership in the struggle for immigrant rights in Farmingville. |
| CATEGORY 2 -- Promoting education and activism that address gender related issues, including reproductive choice and civil liberties. |
| Cinema Arts Center |
$3,500 |
| To present a Women's International Film Festival, giving Long Islanders the opportunity to see and hear both on film and in person from women all over the world -- including local community leaders. |
| SUNY College at Old Westbury |
$4,000 |
| To reestablish a women's center, to help the center underwrite educational and leadership programs and to develop a cohesive advocacy organization. |
| CATEGORY 3 -- Addressing systemic problems that have a negative effect on women and girls such as discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, age, race, creed or physical ability. |
| Family Service League of Suffolk County |
$3,500 |
| The Hispanic Mothers' Project will educate and empower Hispanic mothers to be involved in their children's education and to be self-determining in other spheres of their lives. |
| Alternatives Counseling Services |
$3,500 |
| Support for the Millennium Girls after school program for 5th and 6th grade girls in Riverhead, which includes a variety of interactive exercises, field trips, role modeling, guest speakers and a community service project. |
| Babylon Education Foundation |
$3,000 |
| At risk girls in grades 8-10 will participate in a Vinyasa Yoga program, learning skills that arm them against negative peer pressures and improve leadership abilities. |
| Child Care Council of Nassau, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| Empowerment of the Spanish-speaking community of women on two levels -- to open their own home-based child care businesses and/or to maintain or find jobs utilizing the Council's free child care referral service. |
| Five Towns Community Center, Inc. |
$2,500 |
| Implementation of a Girls' Leadership Project for vulnerable minority girls aged 9-14 that includes meaningful cultural and artistic experiences. |
| Heckscher Museum of Art |
$2,500 |
| Five theatrical performances of "Time Table: Pioneering Women of Art" during Women's History Month which will bring local youth groups to special invitation performances highlighting the struggle for gender equity. |
| Madonna Heights Services |
$3,500 |
| Continued support of their school jewelry making art program, which provides troubled adolescent girls with avenues of self expression and earning potential. |
| North Shore Holiday House |
$2,000 |
| Funding to enhance self-esteem and positive decision making through "Girl Power Workshops" using a variety of literature, software and music. |
| Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center |
$3,500 |
| This program will offer pre-teen and teenage girls with special needs a safe and supportive atmosphere where they can freely express their concerns, listen to and gain support from their peers and learn skills of self-determination. |
| Sista Girls Fit to Play |
$3,500 |
| A sports and fitness program targeting economically disadvantaged pre-teen girls instilling the importance of forming healthy relationships with peers, participation in sports-fitness activities, good nutrition and positive life skills. |
| Sisters Divinely Connected Ministries |
$3,000 |
| Continuation of the "Breakthrough" Mentorship Program for at risk girls in the Wyandanch Middle School designed to help girls overcome obstacles that keep them from excelling academically, socially, professionally and financially. |
| St. Brigid's Casa Mary Johanna |
$3,200 |
| A four-session workshop series for young Latina mothers. These workshops will focus on healthy relationships, responsible citizenship and anti-gang techniques. |
| Unity Circle of Hempstead |
$3,500 |
| Enhancing the ability of women to assume leadership and improve self-image by introducing women to the functions of a board, fund raising and community organizing. |
| Womanspace in Great Neck |
$2,000 |
| The presentation of informal seminars with experts and specialists on issues affecting older women in widowhood, such as elder law, financial planning, housing options, audiology, care-giving and gerontology. |
| Herstory Writers Workshop, Inc. |
$2,500 |
| Expansion of ongoing memoir writing workshops for women incarcerated in the Suffolk County jail and the launching of Latina memoir writing workshops. |
| North Fork Spanish Apostolate |
$2,500 |
| To fund a program designed to help the increasing number of Mixteco Indian women adjust and progress, including literacy programs, parenting and life skills. |
| Shinnecock Indian Health Services |
$3,500 |
| The implementation of "Daughters of Tradition II" Prevention Program designed to provide a character building framework that will enable teen girls to create healthy identities for themselves as young Native American Women. |
| Touro Law Center |
$3,500 |
| Funding of the cost of a public interest Law Fellowship for a Touro student in the summer of 2005 working to address women's issues. |
| CATEGORY 4 -- Highlighting the issues of gender equity in education with programs that encourage girls and young women to pursue math, science engineering, technology, the trades and sport. |
| Public Access Television Corp. |
$2,500 |
| To teach and train young women and girls from all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds on how to create their own television programs. |
| Stony Brook University Research Foundation |
$3,000 |
| A mentoring program for minority H.S. girls to gain skills in the conduct of community based participatory research. |
| W. Islip Youth Enrichment Services Inc. |
$2,500 |
| Matching girls who attend the "Yes Advantage" after-school program at Brentwood West Middle School with women involved in math, science, engineering, technology, the trades and sports via an e-mentoring program. |
| CATEGORY 5 -- Establishing initiatives that deal with problems of harassment in schools or the workplace, or the rise in bullying and/or gang-related violence. |
| COPAY, Inc. |
$4,000 |
| A gang prevention program for underprivileged Hispanic girls -- meeting their social/emotional needs by giving them a place to belong, a sense of empowerment, freedom from victimization and protection. |
| SNAP Long Island |
$2,500 |
| Support for their 22nd annual conference "Girl Fight: A Look at Peer Aggression Among Girls." |
| CATEGORY 6 -- Enhancing the skills and abilities of women and girls, particularly those necessary for leadership, positive self image and increased learning power. |
| (AA)2 |
$4,000 |
| The expansion of workshops that will deal with increasing the confidence and providing support to women and girls at-risk in the Asian American community. |
| CATEGORY 7 -- Promoting physical and mental health, and ensuring the safety of women and girls. |
| American Heart Association |
$2,500 |
| Support for outreach to high-risk African-American women through their "Go Red for Women" program. Screenings will enable African-American women to assess personal risk factors such as blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol. |
| Breast Cancer Help, Inc. -- LI Cancer Help & Wellness Center |
$2,500 |
| Education and support service for Polish-speaking women breast cancer patients and survivors. |
| Central Suffolk Hospital |
$3,000 |
| Improving access to healthcare services for a community through education on health promotion and wellness and providing access to underserved populations. |
| Coalition on Child Abuse and Neglect |
$3,500 |
| A full day retreat for female teen survivors of sexual abuse to promote healing. |
| Hispanic Counseling Center |
$2,500 |
| Support for their Domestic Violence Prevention Program providing MetroCards to women and children affected by domestic violence to get to the Center. |
| JCC of the Greater Five Towns |
$2,500 |
| Educational lectures, medical information, hypertension screening and exercise programs designed to raise the awareness of women in regard to cardiac disease. |
| John T. Mather Memorial Hospital |
$2,500 |
| Support for a Health and Wellness Education Program for incarcerated women in the Riverhead Jail conducted in collaboration with the Suffolk County Department of Corrections. |
| Literacy Suffolk, Inc. |
$4,000 |
| Empowerment of low-literate prenatal patients at the Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Community Health Center in Wyandanch with information needed to help ensure the health and safety of themselves and their babies. |
| Maurer Foundation |
$3,500 |
| An internship program which will enlist college students, graduate and undergraduate, to help expand services to an increased number of women. |
| Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc. |
$3,500 |
| A course of training for social workers and discharge planners to addressing family violence and neglect issues in women over the age of 65. |
| National Association of Mothers' Centers |
$3,500 |
| Postpartum Depression support groups at two Mothers' Centers, one in Nassau and one in Suffolk. |
| Nat'l. Association of Puerto Rican/Hispanic Social Workers, Inc. |
$2,500 |
| Comprehensive training of professionals on the mental health needs of Hispanic women and girls and domestic violence intervention. |
| Peconic Community Council |
$5,000 |
| Support for their discretionary fund to prevent women from becoming homeless. |
| Variety Child Learning Center (VCLC) |
$3,000 |
| A program to assist young children and their mothers who are in foster care through a highly professional, structured program of education in parenting, mother/child activities, and training of their child care workers. |
| VIBS -- LI Regional Committee of New York State |
$5,000 |
| Suppport for a conference to encourage domestic violence/child protective services collaborations in Nassau and Suffolk Counties to improve the systems' response. |
