News and Events

We were happy to return to Long Island Cares/Harry Chapin Food Bank in Hauppauge, NY to present Grant funding. Our Grant will provide food for their Baxter’s Pet Pantry, as well as their holiday season food operations.

We were happy to fulfill a Grant request to Long Beach Soup Kitchen, in Long Beach, NY. The Long Beach Soup Kitchen has been operating for over thirty-five years, providing wholesome meals to the food insecure members of the community. They serve lunch six days a week and Mondays and Thursdays guests can select from an assortment of nonperishables, fruit, meat and vegetables. Our funds will assist them in their mission to provide great support to the community and help with food and biodegradable packaging costs.

We were happy to once again provide Grant funding to National Mill Dog Rescue, in Peyton, CO. Our Grant funds will be used to support their often critical need for specialized veterinary care by private-practice experts for their most seriously ill and injured puppy mill survivors. National Mill Dog Rescue saves more than a thousand dogs each year from often horrible conditions. After evaluation, medical care and training, dogs are placed into loving homes. Dogs are also sent across the United States, thanks to partnerships with other carefully vetted animal shelters and rescues.

We were delighted to provide Grant funds to East Hampton Food Pantry to purchase food for the holiday season for those in need.

We were happy to return to Hamptons Community Outreach to provide Grant funds. Our Grant will be used to provide over 6000 pounds of food for families in need this holiday season for the Shinnecock Nation. Also pictured is a house being repaired by HCO for a member of the Shinnecock Nation.

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.

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.

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.

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.