| 2007 Grants -- $125,000 |
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| FUNDING CATEGORY #1 -- Enhancing the skills and abilities of women and girls, particularly those necessary for leadership, positive self-image and increased earning power. |
| Horace Hagedorn Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls -- Building Skills, Abilities, and Character Glamour Gals |
$5,000 |
| To promote compassionate leadership among young women through service to the elderly. |
| Alternative Counseling Services |
$5,000 |
| To develop a support system for Native American women who are in recovery and/or affected by drugs and alcohol while developing leadership skills to address these issues in their community. |
| Family and Children's Association |
$5,000 |
| This project, "Me Gusta," will train young Latinas to develop skills and micro business knowledge through the agency's nursery program. |
| Girl Scouts of Nassau County |
$5,000 |
| To provide young girls, their schools, parents and communities with language, tools, and tactics to discuss and create healthy romantic relationships. |
| Mommas House, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To provide homeless mothers with more independence and the ability to obtain a driver's license. |
| Coalition Against Child Abuse and Neglect |
$3,500 |
| To support a full day retreat for female survivors of sexual abuse to recognize their strengths and build leadership qualities through various techniques. |
| Liberty Partnerships Program at SUNY Stony Brook |
$4,500 |
| To help 20 African American and Latina girls develop leadership skills, increase self esteem, and prepare for college through reading, writing, and communicating. |
| FUNDING CATEGORY #2 -- Promoting physical and mental health, and ensuring the safety of women and girls. |
| Winthrop-University Hospital Diabetes Education Center |
$4,500 |
| To support phase 2 of telephone based intervention nutrition education program for women with recent Gestational Diabetes. |
| Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk (VIBS) |
$4,500 |
| To provide counseling office hours and drop-in support groups for English and Spanish speaking clients as part of Touro Law Center's innovative Long Island Interest Center. |
| Suffolk Community Council |
$4,875 |
| To address and remove barriers to gynecological and breast health care for women and girls with disabilities. |
| North Fork Women for Women Fund |
$3,900 |
| To provide financial assistance and personal support to lesbians facing emergency health situations. |
| CancerCare of Long Island |
$4,500 |
| To offer women diagnosed with a type of breast or gynecological cancer a complete range of support services in Spanish and English. |
| Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence |
$5,000 |
| A coalition trainer will provide education and services to young women in Mommas House and Bethany House to prevent abuse and create self esteem. |
| PAL-O-Mine Equestrian, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| To provide a 10 week program to young women and girls affected by prostitution, and to prevent re-victimization using Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. |
| 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 |
$4,500 |
| To challenge prevailing restrictive views about women from our history and to present and explore important societal issues, like working, marriage, family and health. |
| Herstory Writers Workshop, Inc. |
$2,000 |
| To extend the healing power of memoir writing to Latina populations on Long Island, including high school girls and day laborers, and to publish and disseminate the stories of immigrant girls. |
| FUNDING CATEGORY #4 -- Hightlighting 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. |
| Selma Greenberg Memorial Fund Grant Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) at Stony Brook University |
$4,500 |
| To introduce middle and high school girls to positive female role models in the science, math and engineering (SME) fields; build awareness of opportunities for girls to pursue careers in the SME fields. |
| 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, Inc. |
$4,500 |
| To expand and respond to the increased demand for the "What's Up? Girl Talk" program to reduce the incidence and impact of relational aggression, bullying, harassment, and physical aggression among adolescent girls. |
| FUNDING CATEGORY #7 -- Promoting education and activism that address gender related issues, including reproductive choice and civil liberties. |
| Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Inc. |
$4,500 |
| To support the efforts of student interns in promoting reproductive rights education and activism among young women on Nassau County's college campuses. |
| EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION FUNDING INITIATIVE -- Parent and community education about early care and education. |
| Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County |
$12,360 |
| To add a nutrition education component to the parenting education program at the Shinnecock Indian health service and the Family Service League, addressing the concerns parents face in regard to feeding their children at no-cost. |
| Long Island Children's Museum |
$12,600 |
| To support the parenting component of "Juntos Al Kinder -- Together to Kindergarten," a program that provides kindergarten readiness classes, parent workshops, community nights, and free access to year-round museum resources for Spanish speaking, immigrant families with children about to enter kindergarten. |
| The Children's Orchestra Society |
$10,000 |
| COS will offer a series of workshops to parents of young children and expectant parents about brain development, early child development, parent-child communication and language development, temperament, learning styles, and their relationships to music. |
| Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Inc. |
$4,778 |
| To continue "Let's Talk" training for daycare and preschool professionals in Suffolk County, with training for parents. This program will give caregivers and parents the accurate and age-appropriate information they need to communicate more consistently about sensitive topics, to handle challenging situations, and to help children develop into more self-assured and sexually healthy adults. |
