Other Grants

February 2010

A $73,000 grant to Premier Healthcare will provide treatment to overweight adults and youth with developmental disabilities.

ARTS AND CULTURE
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio, $25,000 to expand the Museum’s audiences from East Harlem and Washington Heights through a marketing campaign for its free public concerts, screenings, and performances.

Jazz Foundation of America, $24,000 to provide emergency cash assistance to aging City jazz musicians.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, $125,000 to help the Pare Lorentz Film Center disseminate and promote the historical films of Pare Lorentz for use in classrooms and for public viewing on the Web.

ARTS EDUCATION
Midori & Friends, $50,000 to teach 860 children at four middle schools in the Bronx, Harlem, and Washington Heights how to read, play, and perform music.

Silk Road Project, $80,000 to integrate a sixth-grade curriculum into five City schools that uses the rich history of Eurasia’s ancient Silk Road to connect the arts to social studies and history.

Visual Understanding in Education, $60,000 to create teacher training centers at borough art museums to improve students’ visual and critical thinking.

EDUCATION
Global Kids, $40,000 for service-learning projects that foster leadership, citizenship, and academic skills in high schools with low test scores and graduation rates.

HUMAN JUSTICE
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, $35,000 to continue and expand pro bono legal help to veterans filing disability claims.

GIRLS & YOUNG WOMEN
Legal Momentum, $100,000 to increase the number of young women in nontraditional high school vocational programs such as engineering, architecture, and construction.

Row New York, $50,000 to expand a rowing program for middle and high school girls at a boathouse on the Harlem River.

CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, $40,000 to improve the quality of infant/toddler day care programs by helping providers learn about and comply with the City’s new educational standards for early child-care workers.

Harlem Children’s Zone, $60,000 to expand after-school academic and career guidance programs, staffed by part-time teachers and older teens, for youth living in two central Harlem public housing developments.

Spence-Chapin Services to Families & Children, $27,000 to recruit and train interim parents for newborns whose birth parents are considering putting them up for adoption.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Outreach Project, $85,000 to help families prepare for their drug-rehabilitated youth to return home.

Sunset Park Alliance for Youth, $65,000 to help a group of agencies strengthen drug abuse prevention and treatment services for unemployed and out-of-school youth by helping staff detect and treat substance abuse.

ENVIRONMENT
American Bird Conservancy, $50,000 to ban the use of 10 pesticides in the U.S. that cause harm to farm workers, children, pets, birds, and other animals.

Bronx River Alliance, $50,000 to build support for and promote use of the Bronx River Greenway.

Center for Health, Environment and Justice, $80,000 for a national campaign urging precautionary policies for toxic chemicals, banning and replacing unsafe chemicals, and advocating for more public funding of the Superfund cleanup program.

Center for Resource Solutions, $75,000 to expand the use of renewable energy by businesses, nonprofits, and individuals.

Common Ground Community Housing Development Fund Corporation, $40,000 to incorporate green energy and water-saving technologies in housing for the homeless, working poor, seniors, the mentally ill, and people with HIV/AIDS.

Investor Environmental Health Network, $50,000 to educate institutional investors about the profitability of using safe chemicals and the liability and other risks that toxic chemicals pose to corporations.

State Alliance for Federal Reform of Chemicals Policy (SAFER), $86,000 to advocate for safe chemical policies at the state and federal levels.


HEALTH AND PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
The Francis Florio Fund was established in 1974 to support research in the field of blood diseases. The following grants are all two-year grants of $100,000 for research in the fields of blood cell study and blood cancers. Read about past grantees>>

• Trustees of Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

• New York Blood Center

• Rockefeller University

• Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

• Trustees of Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

God’s Love We Deliver, $100,000 to feed cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation.

League Treatment Center, $32,000 to help children with speech and behavioral problems.

Montefiore Medical Center, $120,000 to study the effectiveness of community health workers in treating Bronx children living in poverty and suffering from asthma.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York City Chapter, $58,000 to help needy New Yorkers with multiple sclerosis pay for living and treatment-related expenses and apply for benefits.

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, $126,000 to expand a treatment program for diabetics who risk losing their sight.

New York Stem Cell Foundation, $200,000 to create new types of stem cells that could potentially treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

New York University, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, $75,000 to study how a cost-reducing managed care program is working for physically and mentally ill Medicaid patents.

New York University School of Medicine Center for Immigrant Health, $240,000 to help immigrants with cancer get treatment.

Premier Healthcare, $73,000 to provide treatment to overweight adults and youth with developmental disabilities.

Resources for Children with Special Needs, $167,000 to strengthen five after-school programs for children with disabilities.

St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Center for Comprehensive Care, $100,000 to redesign and expand a comprehensive health care program for people with AIDS.

Village Care of New York, $35,000 to assess the feasibility of merging two agencies serving seniors.

SPECIAL PROJECTS
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, $50,000 to protect the interest of low-income people in federal and state budget negotiations.

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