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NYU Community Fund applications are available beginning Monday, December 4, 2009 and all applications are due by Friday, February 5, 2010. All applicants are notified in early April.
The NYU Community Fund was founded in 1982 by members of the faculty, administrative and clerical staff of New York University as a way to assist organizations serving our community. Since then, the NYU Community Fund has raised and distributed over $2,300,000. All monies are contributed directly from employee paychecks to the fund - a remarkable and satisfying achievement. These gifts aim at making the city a better place to live, both by helping those in need and by brightening everyone's life through the arts and education. Using these funds, the NYU Community Fund Committee has been able to award over 1000 grants to neighborhood groups. These organizations are dedicated to such purposes as: encouraging at-risk young people to stay in school, providing services for the elderly, feeding the hungry, supporting projects for the visually impaired, persons with HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart disease and other health problems, and to sustain literacy, tutorial and tenants rights programs.
New York University feels special pride in making these awards because they reflect a very personal initiative by NYU people to benefit others in our midst. This is giving on almost a face-to-face basis. Resources are sharply focused to alleviate specific needs we see every day, and the results are just as vivid and rewarding to us all.
The NYU Community Fund, now celebrating its 27th year of operation, distinguishes itself from many other fundraising drives by incurring no overhead costs; all administrative expenses are covered by NYU, and every dollar contributed by employees goes directly to neighborhood organizations.