The Thom Fluellen
Award
LIFT (Legal Information for Families Today)
To request funds to continue its partnership with LIFT by suporting their Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP), which offers community-based legal education workshops to low-income grandparents who have recently taken custody of their grandchildren.
T. G. White Fund
Children's Aid Society Youth Chorus Program
To request a renewed grant to support the Chorus Program's ongoing services to engage the city's underprivileged children in the art of music making.
Chinatown YMCA
To provide a free summer arts and crafts program for local youth and families.
City Parks Foundation
To request a renewed and increased $10,000 grant in support of CityParks Kids, their free series of children's performances in Washington Square Park and the 17th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Tompkins Square Park.
Door: A Center of Alternatives
To request support to continue its crisis intervention services to at-rish New York City youth.
Andrew Glover Youth Program, Inc.
To request funding for educational and crime prevention programs for youthful offenders and at-risk youths from the Lower East Side.
GO Project
The GO Project requests funds to sustain the number of students in our program and continue to enhance our services for low-income, underperforming public school children in Lower Manhattan.
Greenwich House, Inc.
To provide psychological and psychiatric care to abuse victims and their family members in order to improve the quality of life for New Yorkers in need.
Hetrick-Martin Institute
To support After School Services.
Lower East Side Girls Club of N.Y.
To request funding for their "Girls Gone Green" environmental program for one hundred Lower East Side residents.
Peter Cicchino Youth Project.
To fund direct legal services and systemic advocacy for LBGTQ youth who are homeless, immigrants, or involved in the foster care, juvenile justice and homeless shelter systems.
New York University employees - faculty, staff, and administration - this year made donations totaling over $100,000 to the NYU Community Fund to support 68 community-based organizations in Lower Manhattan. Since its inception in 1982, the NYU Community Fund has raised and distributed over $2,300,000 in monies contributed directly from voluntary employee contributions. The NYU Community Fund is one part of NYU's annual Combined Campaign, which also contributes to the United Way of New York City. Employee contributions to the United Way have totaled over $27,000 this year.
In addition, the University announced its annual T.G. White Fund awards of $23,000 to ten community based organizations. Together, these gifts aim at making our neighborhood a better place to live, both by helping those in need and by improving everyone's life through the arts and education.
According to Lynne P. Brown, Senior Vice President for University Relations, "NYU feels special pride in making these awards because they reflect a very personal initiative by NYU employees to benefit others in our community. Resources are sharply focused to alleviate specific needs we see every day, and the results are just as vivid and rewarding to us all."
Using these funds, the NYU Community Fund Committee has been able to award over 1100 grants to neighborhood groups since the Fund began. Grants range between $1,000 and $2,500. 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.
The NYU Community Fund, celebrating its 27th year of operation, distinguishes itself from 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.
In addition to the NYU Community Fund Awards, several organizations serving children and other youths in Greenwich Village and are among recipients of this year's awards from the T.G. White Fund. Among the groups receiving these awards are recreation centers, basketball and soccer clubs, and community service organizations. The T.G. White Fund was established by long-time Greenwich Village resident, Theodore Greeley White, who died in 1913. He left his estate to NYU for the support of charitable Greenwich Village organizations that aid young people.
The NYU employees' campaign begins the second week of October and concludes the second week of January. Community groups may apply for grants beginning December 4, 2009. The Committee reviews requests and makes decisions by the end of April, when recipients are notified.