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Grant Award

Island Harvest

We were happy to return to Island Harvest in Melville, NY to fulfill a Grant request. Our funds will be used to support and enhance their Food Collection and Distribution Program. Our funds will assist them in their 2022/2023 goals of distributing more than 18,500 turkeys and trimmings boxes; distributing over 14 million pounds of healthy food and product and to support more than 450 clients per month with SNAP screening and application assistance.

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Grant Award

Health & Welfare Council of Long Island

We were happy to present Grant funds to Health & Welfare Council of Long Island. Our funds will support HWCLI staff providing direct assistance to clients in education, prescreening and application assistance for SNAP enrollment. This will be in partnership with Catholic Health Systems discharge planning team to create a referral system for food insecure patients.

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The Dravet Syndrome Foundation

We were happy to provide Grant funding once again to the Dravet Foundation. Our funds will be part of a larger project to offer researchers funding to continue their important work to better understand this rare disorder. The research goals are to develop new therapeutic treatments that address seizures and the associated comorbidities and improve quality of life. The Dravet Foundation has been focused on this rare disorder since 2009 and has helped so many people keep a positive outlook on life.

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Arizona Crisis Team

We were happy to once again fulfill a Grant request for Arizona Crisis Team. ACT’s volunteer advocates provide emotional, practical and resource assistance to citizens who have been impacted by any type of crisis 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They respond on-scene when notified by emergency agencies to traumatic incidents such as sexual assault, homicide, robberies, natural or accidental death, suicide or attempted suicide, drowning, domestic violence, house fire, loss of loved ones and serious injury accidents. In 2021, approximately 50 ACT volunteers served almost 1300 clients in Yavapai County. They responded to more than 650 calls, 70% of which involved a death. Average response time was 30 minutes, with calls lasting an average of about 2 hours.

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Grant Award

Camp Good Days and Special Times

We were happy to once again support Camp Good Days and Special Times, based out of Mendon, NY. Our Grant funds will be used to support repairs in their Recreational Facility in Yates County, NY which hosts children from Buffalo through Syracuse and beyond.

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Grant Award

National Council of Jewish Women Peninsula Section

We are so proud to provide Grant funding to the National Council of Jewish Women in Lawrence, NY. Our funds will support NCJW’s Back 2 School project. Seven hundred underserved children, some who are disabled, and their parents/guardians will be invited to participate in the event. There are over 300 volunteers who help make this event a success. This event allows children to “shop” for new clothing (winter coats, sneakers, socks, underwear, pants, tops, pjs, school supplies, and toiletries) and goods at no cost to them. While the children “shop” the parents/guardians are invited to the resource room where health screenings and educational information are available. A child who has new clothing and new school supplies is well equipped to begin school in the fall. This often translates into a more positive approach to the learning experience and increases the chances the child will consistently and regularly attend school. The aim is to educate, empower, improve school attendance, and improve the quality of life for children and families.

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Grant Award

The Book Fairies, Freeport, NY

We were delighted to return to The Book Fairies in Freeport, NY to provide Grant funding. Book Fairies sources and redistributes books to under-resourced communities on Long Island and NYC to provide equitable opportunities for children to learn, grow, and thrive.

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Grant Award

FDNY Foundation

We were happy to return to FDNY Foundation to present a Grant. Our funds will be used specifically in the FDNY’s Canine Investigations Unit. With our help, the unit now has five full-time canines that provide a 24 hour on-call service for the entirety of New York’s five boroughs.

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Grant Award

Good Samaritan Hospital

We were delighted to return to Good Samaritan Hospital to fulfil a Grant request. Our funds will be used to start a new program at called ‘Food Insecurity Initiative at Good Samaritan Hospital Emergency Department’. This program will assist patients after they leave the hospital to make sure that they’re nutritionally sound after whatever treatment they received.