| 2006 Grants -- $150,000 |
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| Horace Hagedorn Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls -- Building Skills, Abilities, and Character |
| Girl Scouts of Suffolk County |
$5,000 |
| To expand and strengthen a one day Health and Safety Workshop, "Uniquely Me!," a program for girls 8 - 10, including such topics as proper nutrition, emotional health, personal safety and physical fitness. A core group of girls 12 and older will be recruited to design the program for the younger girls under the guidance of members of GSSC Fitness Council and Girl Scout staff. |
| Mid-Island Jewish Community Center "GoGirlGo Teen Challenge" |
$3,000 |
| To promote the physical and mental health of girls and young women, and encourage them to make healthy life choices with confidence in themselves. The program encourages personal responsibility, promotes positive healthy habits and attitudes, reduces stress and improves fitness in teenage girls, in a private environment with no outside pressure or embarrassment. |
| The Salvation Army Double Dutch Program |
$5,000 |
| "Go Girl Go Double Dutch Program," a 12 month program targeting girls ages 8 to 15 years old, provides training in the sport of Double Dutch jumping. Young girls engage in team work and focus on positive development, virtue lessons and prevention of negative social behavior. A qualified coach and trainer provides the girls with personal guidance and counseling when needed. She is a credentialed therapist trained in working with at-risk youth. |
| FUNDING CATEGORY #1 -- Enhancing the skills and abilities of women and girls, particularly those necessary for leadership, positive self-image and increased earning power. |
| Debt Counseling Corp. |
$3,000 |
| To provide education in the area of financial literacy to women in crisis; women needing to enter the workforce for the first time or rejoin the workforce; young girls and teenage mothers. |
| North Shore Holiday House |
$3,000 |
| To enhance the "Girl Power" Program through the use of literature and writing. Books will enhance materials used in the program and each child will be sent home with tools to continue the concepts of self-knowledge, self-acceptance and self-empowerment. |
| The Long Island Council of Churches |
$5,000 |
| Continued support for "Women at the Well," a re-entry and alternative sentencing program for female inmates of the Nassau County Jail. Spiritual, emotional, social and material support facilitate successful re-entry into home communities, and sustenance during alternative sentencing and/or while they are in jail/prison break the cycle of recidivism. |
| The Retreat Inc. |
$5,000 |
| LINCS (Learning Independence & Networking to Create Self- Sufficiency), is designed to give victims of domestic violence who reside in their residential shelter and women who are non-residential clients tools and skills needed for self-sufficiency. This transitional literacy program will provide vocational, educational and financial training to assist them in becoming independent of their abusers. |
| FUNDING CATEGORY #2 -- Promoting physical and mental health, and ensuring the safety of women and girls. |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America |
$5,000 |
| A support group for women who suffer from Crohn's Disease or ulcerative colitis. This grant will provide training for peer group leaders and underwrite the cost of presenting one year of support groups. |
| Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To help support a full-time women's advocate position at the Safe Home for Abused Families. This advocate is responsible for case management for women seeking emergency safe haven at their domestic violence shelter. |
| Peconic Community Council, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| Emergency financial relief for women and their children in crisis, especially those at risk of homelessness. HOPELINE is for emergency and permanent housing, medical care, food, clothing and problems with substance abuse. |
| Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. |
$4,810 |
| To establish a group of ten bi-lingual peer educators, who, after in-depth training, will be able to provide important information on sexuality and reproductive health to Spanish-speaking young women. Peer educators will outreach to the growing Latina community and give them access to the potentially life-saving information and services. |
| Suffolk County Community Council |
$4,545 |
| The Female Health Medical Accessibility Check List for Suffolk will address and remove the multitude of barriers to gynecological and breast health care for women and girls with physical disabilities. This list will be sent to all gynecological and breast health offices in Suffolk so staff can quickly let a caller know where she can access gynecological and/or breast health care. |
| Suffolk County Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To continue the language translation service funded by the LIFWG last year on the 24-hour hotline. Trained counselors speak with and offer safety and options to non-English speaking victims who otherwise might be prevented from accessing services due to language barriers. The interpreters facilitate communication and help to avoid language and translation barriers that might discourage non-English speaking victims from seeking help and safety. |
| Winthrop University Hospital Diabetes Education Center |
$5,000 |
| A telephone-based nutrition education program for women with recent gestational diabetes designed to prevent or delay the progression to type 2 diabetes. |
| FUNDING 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. |
| Airmid Theatre Company |
$5,000 |
| To restore the voices of women from our past and use their words to explore issues relevant to society, including working life, marriage and family, health care and other problems that were addressed by women in centuries past, and are still faced today. These presentations challenge prevailing restrictive views about women and encourage thought into how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others. |
| Herstory Writers Workshop, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| Funding to bring the Herstory approach to adolescent girls. Herstory will work in collaboration with SNAP-Long Island, Town of Islip Youth Bureau and Stony Brook University-Charles B. Wang Center. Plans include two day long retreats for mothers and daughters as well as two ongoing workshops. |
| Long Island Crisis Center |
$3,000 |
| A peer educator program for lesbian and bisexual young women operated through "Pride For Youth." Four young women will be hired to undergo 48 hours of training and conduct health promotion and bias reduction activities such as educational theater, a quarterly youth magazine and LGBT sensitivity workshops. |
| FUNDING 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. |
| Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS) |
$5,000 |
| To continue and expand "What's Up? Girl Talk," a relational aggression program for middle school girls, to deliver specially designed parent workshops, facilitate a roundtable discussion for middle school guidance counselors and social workers and develop a pilot mentoring program. Young women volunteers from colleges and universities will mentor in a minimum of three middle schools to reduce the incidence and impact of relational aggression, bullying and harassment and improve the emotional and physical wellbeing of all children. |
| Theatre Three |
$5,000 |
| The Bullying Project, an original 45-minute traveling musical aimed at elementary, middle school and junior high students (grades 4 through 8), will address bullying in the classroom, cafeteria and schoolyard, with strong emphasis on the rising incidents of bullying via the internet. The play presents a range of scenarios and solutions; a question and answer period follows. A detailed study-guide and follow-up activities and discussion topics will be provided prior to the performance. |
| FUNDING CATEGORY #6 -- Focusing on ensuring that women's voices are included in the political process, especially concerning decisions and choices that affect them. |
| Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) |
$5,000 |
| To enable student interns to continue working on college campuses promoting reproductive rights, activism and education among young women. |
| FUNDING CATEGORY #7 -- Promoting education and activism that address gender related issues, including reproductive choice and civil liberties. |
| John T. Mather Memorial Hospital |
$5,000 |
| The Health and Wellness Education Program for Incarcerated Women in the Suffolk County Jail provides skills and information about health and healthcare issues that affect inmates. Weekly classes are held in the jail for over 300 women annually. The RN Nurse Educators provide health education, resources and referral information, support and advocacy for participating women. |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Long Island (VNA of LI) |
$3,800 |
| "Maternal and Child Health Program" brings services to pregnant women, young mothers and children at risk for not receiving medical care. VNA of LI will provide: continuing medical education for ten nurses (to keep current with maternal and child health care) two fetal Doppler monitors (to measure fetal heartbeat in utero) and two baby scales (to document healthy growth of infants). |
| EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION FUNDING INITIATIVE -- Parent and community education about early care and education. |
| Barry and Florence Friedberg JCC |
$10,000 |
| The South Shore Parenting Resource Network. To strengthen families and provide parents of young children with a clearing house of parent resources, funding streams, technical assistance and advocacy. With the support of their partnering foundations, the JCC will create, operate and maintain this clearinghouse that will serve as a working model for all other communities in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. This grant will fund the establishment of a "warm line" for parents to call during the hours of 4:00pm to 7:00pm for parenting support and information. |
| Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk |
$7,188 |
| Parent education workshops for parents and caregivers, at selected early care and education centers throughout Suffolk County. By providing information and skill training for parents and caregivers, the understanding of early childhood development will increase as well as parents' confidence in their role as parents. |
| Long Island Children's Museum |
$16,700 |
| For the parenting component of Juntos al Kinder (Together to Kindergarten), a program that targets the growing number of local immigrant families with limited English proficiency. |
| National Association of Mother's Centers |
$7,500 |
| With the Long Island Advocacy Center, to jointly create both a curriculum and materials to educate and train parents of young children to advocate for themselves and their children in a variety of settings such as pediatricians' offices, day care settings, nursery schools and hospitals, as well as informal settings that include extended families, neighbors and community settings such as playgrounds. |
| Selma Greenberg Memorial Fund Grant |
| Children's Maritime Museum (Selma Greenberg Award) |
$8,600 |
| "Question, Wonder, Learn: Helping Mothers Help Their Children Thrive" to help mothers of young children become confident, skilled facilitators of their children's learning. Workshops for mother/ child learning called "Question, Wonder, Learn," for caregivers of young children to learn skills that maximize children's emotional, social and academic potential. |
