Other Grants

August 2009 Grants Newsletter

Inda Bolds, a dancer with Elisa Monte Dance Company, which received a Trust grant.

In addition to the feature articles: "Filling Budget Gaps, Getting Stimulus Money, and Making the Bottom Line." and "Organizing a Maritime Renaissance," the following grants were approved by The Trust's governing body in June 2009:

 

Environment

Breast Cancer Fund, $100,000 to advocate for national safe chemical laws and strengthen consumer protections against exposure to toxic chemicals.

Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, $75,000 to improve federal environmental legislation by educating members of Congress on the connection between the environment and human health.

Coming Clean Collaborative, $75,000 to advocate for safer use of chemicals and ensure that communities exposed to toxins are represented in federal policy discussions.

Environmental Health Fund, $100,000 for a national media and field campaign to bolster support for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act.

1SKY Education Fund, $100,000 for a multi-state field organizing and lobbying campaign to build support for a comprehensive and aggressive national climate change policy.

New York Restoration Project, $50,000 for clean-up and landscaping at Highbridge Park in northern Manhattan.

TEDX, $75,000 to provide evidence of the biological harm caused by chemicals to policymakers and environmentalists advocating for better national chemical policies.

Tides Foundation, $100,000 to stop the expansion of tar sands oil production, toughen regulation, and promote measures that will reduce demand.

Technical Assistance

Hispanic Federation, $65,000 to help Latino organizations that face losing government contracts strengthen their financial management systems.

Youth

Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, $50,000 to recruit 900 black, Latino, and Chinese volunteers, particularly men, to mentor youth in poor and immigrant communities.

Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, $160,000 to continue and expand a career exploration program for sixth- and seventh-grade girls at low-performing Bronx middle schools.

Education

Hunter College of CUNY, Bellevue School of Nursing, $130,000 for counseling, academic support, and a Web site to help Hispanic students get their bachelor’s degrees in nursing.

LatinoJustice PRLDEF, $60,000 for academic counseling and LSAT prep classes for 30 Latino college students to help them go to law school.

Historic Preservation

New York Landmarks Conservancy, $100,000 for emergency repairs of historic buildings owned by nonprofits.

Human Justice

Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, $75,000 to train first-year associates hired by private law firms to do pro bono work at legal service and public interest law agencies.

Immigration Equality, $40,000 to help gay people and people with AIDS get asylum and become legal residents.

Health

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, $100,000 for an evaluation of a State program that brings efficiency to caring for high-cost Medicaid patients.

United Neighborhood Houses of New York, $125,000 to expand a health education program and help middle school students cope with family and emotional problems arising from the recession.

VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, $175,000 for a program that trains poor youth for jobs helping visually impaired seniors.

Elderly

Griot Circle, $30,000 for social services, including financial counseling, for black and Latino gay and lesbian elders living in Brooklyn.

Medicare Rights Center, $100,000 to help seniors understand and apply for Medicare benefits.

New York Academy of Medicine, $100,000 for the development of a plan to restructure senior centers to meet a wider range of aged New Yorkers’ needs.

Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), $50,000 to expand financial counseling and social services for gay and lesbian elders.

New York Academy of Medicine, $100,000 to continue and expand a science and health careers program for 125 black and Latina seventh-grade girls in Harlem.

Safe Horizon, $75,000 to avoid reducing staff and hours at Harlem’s only two child protection centers.

Youth Development Institute, $35,000 to help poor kids not working and not in school prepare for the General Educational Diploma (GED) exam.

Arts

Bronx Museum of the Arts, $30,000 for a marketing campaign to build young, diverse, and local audiences for the Bronx’s only art museum.

Elisa Monte Dance Company, $75,000 (three years) for a modern dance company.

Fourth Arts Block, $50,000 to promote the arts groups in the East Fourth Street Cultural District in Manhattan through coordination of discounts, centralized ticketing, and free street performances.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, $75,000 for a discount ticket facility, similar to the TKTS booth in Times Square, with kiosks and staff to provide information about available shows.

Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York, $30,000 (three years) for public presentations of literary programs, including the New York Festival of Mystery, the Works of Shakespeare, and Emerging Authors.

Performance Space 122, $90,000 (three years) for an experimental performing arts center.

Staten Island Children’s Museum, $25,000 to bring field trips to the classroom by training artists to lead workshops in 16 Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens schools.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, $90,000 (three years) for a modern dance company.

Target Margin Theater, $60,000 (three years) for a theater company that creates original interpretations of literary works.

White Wave Rising Dance Company, $60,000 (three years) for a Brooklyn dance company and presenter.

Wooster Group, $90,000 (three years) for an experimental theater ensemble.