The Thom Fluellen
Award
Third Street Music School Settlement
To help support the 27th annual presentation of Music in Abe Lebewohl Park - a series of free weekly outdoor concerts in June and July.
T. G. White Fund
Children's Aid Society Youth Chorus Program
To support the Chorus Program's ongoing services to engage the city's underpriviledged children in the art of music making.
Chinatown YMCA Houston Street Center
To provide a free summer arts-and-crafts program for local youth.
City Parks Foundation
To support a series of free children's performances in Washington Square Park and the 16th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Thompson Square Park.
The Door-A Center of Alternatives, Inc.
To support the contituation of their crisis intervention services to underserved and at-risk New York City youth.
Andrew Glover Youth Program, Inc.
To support educational and crime prevention programs for at-risk youth on the Lower East Side.
GO Project
To support the growth and expansion of their tutoring and mentoring programs in order to serve more low-income, under performing students in need from the downtown community.
Greenwich House
To provide pyschological and psychiatric care to abuse victims and their family members in order to improve the quality of life for New Yorkers.
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
To support "History and Historic Preservation", an in-class program for grades 1-6 that uses the built envoirnment of Greenwich Village to teach NYC history and historic preservation.
Greenwich Village Youth Council
To support the Greenwich Village Girls' Basketball League.
Project Renewal, Inc.
To support the operations of two mobile primary care clinics serving homeless New Yorkers.
New York University employees - faculty, staff, and administration - this year made donations totaling over $125,000 to the NYU Community Fund to support 85 community-based organizations in Lower Manhattan. Since its inception in 1982, the NYU Community Fund has raised and distributed over $2,000,000 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 $29,000 this year.
In addition, the University announced its annual T.G. White Fund awards of $25,000 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 1000 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 26th 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 5, 2008. The Committee reviews requests and makes decisions by the end of April, when recipients are notified.