GRANT RECIPIENTS 2003 -‐ 2013
Since its founding in 2003, SHAPEfund has a warded 47 grants totaling $149,820 to 39 d ifferent organizations. 2013 Grantees: •
Turning Point for Women and Families (Queens, NY) -‐ $7,000 to support a range of culturally and linguistically sensitive services and leadership programming for Muslim children and teenage girls. Turning Point serves Muslim women and children through crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, advocacy, education, and training. The grant will support counseling for children who have witnessed and/or been victims of domestic violence and teenage girls who are survivors of sexual abuse. It will also support the Young Women’s Leadership Program which includes a weekly peer support group for Muslim teenage girls (Mecca to Manhattan) and ARISE NY!, a youth-‐led campaign to stand up to anti-‐Muslim hate crimes and bullying of Muslim youth -‐ www.tpny.org.
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Camp Good Grief of Staten Island (Staten Island, NY) -‐ $9,000 to fund a project which will introduce the topic of bereavement in the public, private a nd parochial schools o n Staten Island. Working with IlluminArts, a well-‐regarded, nonprofit which produces dramatic works by, with and for students, Camp Good Grief, a weekend camp for children and teens who have experienced significant loss, will work with its alumni campers to craft an original script which can be used as a catalyst for discussion both while camp is in session a nd as a freestanding performance throughout the year -‐ www.campgoodgriefsi.org.
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Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership (New York, NY) -‐ $15,000 to start a new girls program at P.S. 149 Sojourner Truth School in Harlem. Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership, a youth organization that builds leadership skills and social responsibility through lacrosse, will hire a Head Coach and Assistant Coach for the girl’s team, purchase equipment, and provide travel accommodations for scrimmages, clinics, games and field trips for the 2013-‐2014 school year -‐ www.harlemlacrosse.org.
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Fresh Youth Initiatives (New York, NY) -‐ $12,000 to support the efforts of FYI to provide quality youth engagement for young people ages 10-‐18 in Washington Heights. The grant will be used for the purchase of materials and supplies needed for their youth engagement and community service projects (beautification, graffiti, removal, murals, community gardening etc.) A portion will be used to purchase furniture and revitalize their learning center space to illustrate the absorption of Cornerstone learning center, and dedicate the space to their new tutoring services, the grant will also enable FYI to provide enrichment activities, and exposure to new experiences, through educationally stimulating trips -‐ www.freshyouth.org.
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VOICE Charter School of N Y (Queens, NY) -‐ $8,500 to purchase materials for a keyboard laboratory and to develop a curriculum that meets the needs of VOICE Charter School’s rigorous music and choral program -‐ www.voicecharterschool.org.
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Doing Art Together (New York, NY) -‐ $10,000 to provide 10-‐week hands-‐on visual art residencies for 1 hour per week to 15 lower grade classrooms (Pre-‐K to Grade 2) at PS 5 Port Morris in the South Bronx and PS 194 Countee Cullen in C entral Harlem during the 2013-‐2014 school y ear, as well a s family programs in-‐school, after-‐school and o n the weekend. DAT, an arts education organization that serves under-‐served youth, will also use the grant to fund teaching artists, teaching artist assistant interns, a nd art /exhibition supplies -‐ www.doingarttogether.org.
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The Bubble Foundation (New York, NY) -‐ $5,000 to help expand Bubble Eats to an additional 5 schools. Bubble teaches nutrition and fitness at NYC charter schools that do not have these programs embedded in their curriculum. The grant will help cover supplies, food, and travel expense for their volunteers, effectively doubling their impact to reach more than 1,000 students a cross The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, a nd Harlem -‐ www.welcometobubble.org.
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Change for Kids (New York, NY) -‐ $8,500 to support the 2013-‐2014 expansion of CFK’s Change Club program, a tutoring a nd enrichment program that unites elementary school children from under-‐resourced New York City public schools with high school and college student tutors. Change for Kids partners with NYC public elementary schools to provide programming in literacy, arts, healthy living, and classroom support -‐ www.changeforkids.org.
2012 Grantees: •
ART START (New York, NY) -‐ $2,000 to fund a special series of workshops featuring a performance and guest teacher. There will b e follow-‐up workshops with this guest t eacher. A RT START nurtures the voices, hearts, and minds of at-‐risk youth through creative arts workshops conducted daily inside homeless shelters and alternatives to incarceration programs throughout NYC. ART START believes that art saves lives because with structure and connection to opportunity, art can be the starting point of a process that turns project achievements into life achievements. http://art-‐start.org/
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Corona Youth Music Project (Corona, NY) -‐ $2,000 to support the youth orchestra program focusing on children from 4-‐6 years old. CYMP offers tuition-‐free music programs for children and youth in the Corona section of Queens. It fosters community building and social change through participation in choirs and orchestras. http://www.nucleocorona.org/Corona_Youth_Music_Project/Home.html
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Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership (New York, NY) -‐ $2,000 for general operations including lacrosse instruction and academic tutoring. HLL is a youth o rganization that builds leadership skills and social responsibility through lacrosse. They provide a safe and structured setting for their players as they guide them both on and off the field through coaching, mentoring, and academic intervention. Broadening players’ experiences and skill sets prepares them to become effective leaders in the Harlem community and beyond. http://www.harlemlacrosse.org/site/HLL.html In Arms Reach (New York, NY) -‐ $2,000 for general operating funds to support tutors, stipends, supplies, equipment, and children's snacks. In Arms Reach focuses on reinforcing positive behavior and decreasing emotional withdrawal by nurturing self-‐confidence and creative skills. They aim to prepare each child for admission to college so that they may lead p roductive, crime free lives. http://www.inarmsreach.net/
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2011 Grantees: •
A Caring Hand (New York, NY) -‐ $1,500 in support of their services to bereaved children and teens and their caregivers throughout the New York City area. A Caring Hand was founded in 2002 by Susan Esposito-‐ Lombardo to honor h er father who died in the 9/11 t errorist attacks. Inspired by her o wn grief, she created an organization to bring healing and hope to bereaved families. Since its founding, the organization has helped thousands of bereaved children with scholarships and grants to local and national bereavement programs. In 2008, finding that no free-‐standing comprehensive b ereavement center existed in Manhattan, the o rganization decided to dedicate its resources to opening and running The Billy Esposito Bereavement Center for children and their caregivers. The center’s goal is to help individuals develop h ealthy ways of coping with the profound changes in their life after the death of someone special and to find comforting ways to remember that cherished person (www.acaringhand.org).
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Adaptive Design (New York, NY) -‐ $1,500 to provide a hands-‐on, adaptive-‐design curriculum to 4 groups of school-‐age youth as part of their classes and as an after-‐school event. Adaptive Design engages families, schools, and communities in the process of designing and building child-‐specific adaptive equipment, so children with disabilities get the devices and modifications they need to achieve their full developmental, social, and academic potential. The organization serves children of all ethnicities and income levels, aged birth to 12 y ears, from a ll five New York City boroughs (www.adaptivedesign.org).
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Concrete Safaris (New York, NY) -‐ $2,000 in support of CS Explorers, a year-‐round, health-‐based, experiential learning program for children ages 7 -‐11 who live in and around the Washington Houses projects in East Harlem. Concrete Safaris’ goal is to empower youth to be healthy leaders through green exercise programs that enrich the mind, body, community and environment. In early 2008, shortly after Concrete Safaris' formation, sixteen 9-‐12-‐year-‐olds in its after-‐school program transformed an underutilized, d ecrepit 4,000+ sq. ft. plot of land just outside their apartment buildings at Washington Houses into a shade perennial butterfly garden, called Paradise Garden. The following year, a group of 7-‐8-‐year-‐old participants transformed an adjacent 10,000+ sq. ft. plot into Mad Fun Farm, the first youth-‐centered farm on NYC Housing Authority property. These t wo plots constitute the basis of the organization's present a ctivities. The program has grown to serve nearly 700 children from six schools and three community centers (www.concretesafaris.org).
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Nourishing NYC (New York, NY) -‐ $3,000 in support of their Junior Chef program. This p rogram was created to connect underserved and undernourished youth to the culinary arts while education students and their families on issues of nutrition and wellness. The Junior Chef program was inaugurated in 2009. These hands-‐on classes give 12 underprivileged kids the opportunity to learn skills in the kitchen by learning how to make h ealthy, easy to prepare meals. These 12 children also receive the materials necessary to prepare the meals with their families, in addition to a local gym membership (www.nourishingnyc.org).
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The Pinwheel Project (Bedford, NY) -‐ $2,000 total -‐ $1,500 in support of their Pinwheel Cart program and $500 toward Patient Special Requests. The Pinwheel Cart program consists of two different kinds of carts-‐-‐the Goodie Cart and the Activity Cart. The Goodie Cart offers free snack foods to patients and their families. The chart travels to every room in the hospital offering a "sweet" break to the day. Similarly, the Activity Cart brings arts and craft supplies, toys, books, and lots of other entertaining activities to the children. And the Patient Special Request funds the occasional out-‐of-‐the-‐ordinary request for a particular patient’s needs. The Pinwheel Project, operating in all five boroughs of NYC, seeks to ensure that no child or family ever feels isolated o r a lone during the o rdeal of a p ediatric hospital stay. They b elieve that by lifting spirits and providing much-‐needed practical support, it creates an atmosphere that helps the healing process. Since its 2003 inception, Pinwheel has been working to bring comfort and normalcy to families whose lives have been devastated by illness (www.thepinwheelproject.org).
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Rocking the Boat (Bronx, NY) -‐ $3,500 in support of their after-‐school and summer Boatbuilding and On-‐Water Programs. Funding supports the programs’ annual overnight trip to Clearwater Festival, where students have the opportunity to share their work with the general public and volunteer at this world-‐renowned event. Rocking the Boat uses boats to help young people challenged by economic, educational, and social disadvantages, develop into empowered and responsible adults. Participating during the school-‐day, after school, and summer in hands-‐on, wooden boatbuilding and environmental education programs, young people in the South Bronx develop self-‐confidence to set ambitious goals and the skills needed to achieve them. Rocking the Boat recently moved into its o wn p ermanent site, a converted 6,000 square-‐foot warehouse with a 25,000 square-‐foot boat yard in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx ( www.rockingtheboat.org).
• Behind the Book (New York, NY) -‐ $3,500 in support of their Elementary School Initiative (ELSI), their arts-‐in-‐ education literacy program for elementary students, at CS 21 in Bedford-‐Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, PS 274 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and PS 116 in Jamaica, Queens. Behind the Book, a grassroots literacy organization working in New York City public schools, is dedicated to exciting children and young adults about life-‐long reading. Their goal this year is to p roduce sixteen ELSI workshops reaching 450 students and will donate more than 520 books to students and the school libraries. Working with low-‐income students in the Kindergarten-‐ 12th grades, they bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and a new generation of book readers. Each program occurs during school hours in a small classroom setting, is taught a s part of the class curriculum, incorporates a writing project and multiple author visits, and includes book donations to students and the school library (www.behindthebook.org). • Friends of the Children NY (New York, NY) -‐ $4,000 for t he purchase of the web-‐based literacy p rogram Study Dog, in support of their Academic Tutoring Program. Friends of the Children NY is an early intervention program that targets at-‐risk students living in New York City. Students are paired with mentors, or
“friends,” with whom they work closely and engage in various enrichment programs. Students and their mentors develop close relationships and work together until the students' high-‐school graduation, thus providing one-‐on-‐one sustainable and long-‐term support. While the Friends do some academic tutoring as a natural component of their work with children, it is critical that they not b ecome v iewed a s an extension of the school system. A s a result Friends plan for the children to complete high school with a plan for the future, and they believe that this can best b e a ccomplished if they p rovide emotional support and encouragement through the friends system, and academic support through their new Academic Tutoring Program (www.Friendsofthechildrenny.org). • New Settlement’s Bronx Helpers (Bronx, NY) -‐ $3,600 in support of their Teen Leaders Program. New Settlement's Bronx Helpers p rovides afterschool leadership development and community service p rogramming to youth in the Mount Eden neighborhood of the Southwest Bronx. Participants (Teen Leaders) engage in various community-‐service projects throughout New York City, including in their o wn neighborhoods. By doing so they gain a sense of empowerment and desire to inspire change. Teen Leaders make presentations during program outreach events in their schools and facilitate workshops to teach others about social justice issues. They also work closely with one another in bi-‐weekly meetings and special advisory Round Table events to discuss their experiences and plan upcoming programs and events. While exploring the causes and effects of community issues, m embers learn more about themselves and experience what it is like to b e d irectly involved in positive community change. New Settlement Apartments is a nonprofit, affordable housing development of nearly 1000 families and most recently the Bronx Helpers’ Teen Leaders have campaigned a gainst violence and in support of gun-‐control; they are also involved in the Campaign for Better Schools, a coalition of several Bronx high schools which fights to improve the quality of NYC public school education and facilities (www.youtube.com/BronxHelpers). •
PowerPlay NYC, Inc. (New York, NY) -‐ $3,500 in support of their SuperSTARS (Sports Training and Role Models for Success) S ummer Leadership Academy. PowerPlay NYC provides “at-‐risk” girls a ges 7-‐18 the opportunity to participate in instructional sports clinics and “healthy living” activities, and educates and empowers girls through instruction in sports, teaching life skills, building self-‐confidence and building self-‐esteem. The SuperSTARS Summer Leadership Academy, an eight-‐week summer program encourages high school girls from low income and underserved areas throughout New York City to participate free of charge. The girls spend the first six-‐weeks engaging in sports/fitness programming, life skills workshops, workplace training, college preparation, health and safety workshops, and field trips. During the final t wo weeks, each girl is a ssigned to an internship at a business o r organization that provides each girl with the opportunity to experience professional work environments and to help prepare them for successful careers. Some of the participants who have graduated from the program return to work as junior counselors at the SuperSTARS Summer Leadership Academy and are role models for the current participants. As a result of these programs, girls develop self-‐ confidence and self-‐esteem, learn communications and leaderships skills, and reinforce and teach the importance of “healthy living” (www.powerplaynyc.org).
2009 Grantees: • Behind the Book (New York, NY) -‐ $2,000 in support of their Elementary School Initiative (ELSI), their arts-‐in-‐ education literacy program for elementary students, at CS 21 in Bedford-‐Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, PS 274 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and PS 116 in Jamaica, Queens. Behind the Book, a grassroots literacy organization working in New York City public schools, is dedicated to exciting children and young adults about life-‐long reading. Their goal this year is to produce sixteen ELSI workshops reaching 460 students and will donate more than 930 books to students and the school libraries. Working with low-‐income students in the Kindergarten-‐12th grades, they bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and a new generation of book readers. Each program occurs during school hours in a small classroom setting, is taught as part of the class curriculum, incorporates a writing project and multiple author visits, and includes book donations to students and the school library (www.behindthebook.org). • The DOME Project (New York, NY) -‐ $1,520 in support of their Juvenile Justice Program, which provides counseling, court advocacy, educational support and assistance with vocational placement to youth in New York City. The DOME Project has dedicated itself to meeting the complex n eeds of young people in t rouble with the law, their schools and themselves by providing essential programming surrounding their core principles— Advocacy, Education and Youth Empowerment. DOME is also committed to providing youngsters with
alternatives to the negative pressures they face every day in their communities and to help them develop a healthy, positive sense of themselves as individuals who can thrive in society (www.domeproject.org). •
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Friends of the Children NY (New York, NY) -‐ $2,000 in support of their newly-‐created Academic Tutoring Program. Friends of the Children NY is an early intervention program which targets at-‐risk students living in New York City. Students are paired with mentors, or “friends,” with whom they work closely and engage in various enrichment programs. Students and their mentors develop close relationships and work together until the students' h igh-‐school graduation, thus providing one-‐on-‐one sustainable and long-‐term support. While the Friends do some academic tutoring as a natural component of their work with children, it is critical that they not become viewed as an extension of the school system. As a result Friends plan for the children to complete high school with a plan for the future, and they believe that this can best be accomplished if they provide emotional support and encouragement through the friends system, and academic support through their new Academic Tutoring Program (www.Friendsofthechildrenny.org). New Settlement’s Bronx Helpers (Bronx, NY) -‐ $1,000 in support of their Teen Leaders Program. New Settlement's Bronx Helpers p rovides afterschool leadership development and community service p rogramming to youth in the Mount Eden neighborhood of the Southwest Bronx. Participants (Teen Leaders) engage in various community-‐service projects throughout New York City, including in their o wn neighborhoods. By doing so they gain a sense of empowerment and desire to inspire change. Teen Leaders make presentations during program outreach events in their schools and facilitate workshops to teach others about social justice issues. They also work closely with one another in bi-‐weekly meetings and special advisory Round Table events to discuss their experiences and plan upcoming programs and events. While exploring the causes and effects of community issues, m embers learn more about themselves and experience what it is like to b e d irectly involved in positive community change. New Settlement Apartments is a nonprofit, affordable housing development of nearly 1000 families and most recently the Bronx Helpers’ Teen Leaders have campaigned a gainst violence and in support of gun-‐control; they are also involved in the Campaign for Better Schools, a coalition of several Bronx high schools which fights to improve the quality of NYC public school education and facilities (www.youtube.com/BronxHelpers). PowerPlay NYC, Inc. (New York, NY) -‐ $2,000 in support of t heir SuperSTARS (Sports Training and Role Models for Success) Summer Leadership A cademy. PowerPlay NYC p rovides “at-‐risk” girls a ges 7-‐18 the opportunity to participate in instructional sports clinics and “healthy living” activities, and educates and empowers girls through instruction in sports, t eaching life skills, building self-‐confidence and building self-‐esteem. The SuperSTARS Summer Leadership A cademy, an eight-‐week summer p rogram encourages high school girls from low income and underserved areas throughout New York City to participate free of charge. The girls spend the first six-‐weeks engaging in sports/fitness programming, life skills workshops, workplace t raining, college preparation, health and safety workshops, and field t rips. During the final t wo weeks, each girl is assigned to an internship at a business or o rganization that p rovides each girl with the opportunity to experience professional work environments and to h elp prepare them for successful careers. Some of the participants who have graduated from the program return to work as junior counselors at the SuperSTARS Summer Leadership Academy and a re role models for the current participants. As a result of these programs, girls d evelop self-‐ confidence and self-‐esteem, learn communications and leaderships skills, and reinforce and teach the importance of “healthy living” (www.powerplaynyc.org). Trips for Kids – NYC (New York, NY) -‐ $1,000. In addition to the 5 grants we a warded in June 2009, SHAPEfund awarded a special end-‐of-‐year grant to the NYC chapter of Trips for Kids. Our $1,000 grant will support TFK-‐NYC which opens the world of cycling to at-‐risk youth through mountain bike rides and Earn-‐A-‐Bike p rograms. Our grant will fund their Basic Ride and their Educational Ride. TFK’s experienced volunteers t each the kids to evaluate the challenging a rea, how to approach it, and f inally how to find the b est line to ride through it. The riding groups work as t eams, encouraging each other and d iscussing the best m ethods of execution. Confidence and self-‐esteem a re b eing built a s they themselves accomplish these feats. Through experiential learning they are also getting lessons in safety and ecology. Their goal is t o teach lessons in p ersonal responsibility, leadership, a chievement and environmental a wareness through the development of practical skills and the simple act of having fun (www.tripsforkids.org).
2008 Grantees: •
Bronx Lab School (Bronx, NY)-‐-‐-‐ In support of Bronx Lab’s “Health and History: Bicycling the Underground Railroad” trip for select students. The Bronx Lab School opened in September 2004 and is completing its third year as a small new school within the New York City Department of Education. Its mission is to prepare its students for college and life by engaging them in meaningful and contextual academic work; helping them to participate in a nurturing community; encouraging them to explore their passions; and t eaching them to value effort as a means to success. The trip allows 12 students to discover part of our nation’s history while participating in an outdoor biking adventure -‐ www.bronxlabschool.org.
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TORCH (New York, NY) -‐ In support of TORCH’s Training Skills and Development project and programming. TORCH (Together Our Resources Can H elp) is dedicated to t ransforming the lives of underserved New York City public high school students by providing intensive exposure to career training and opportunities in communications and the arts. The Training Skills and Development project includes participants meeting weekly to work on hands-‐on projects, which allow students to explore career options and to gain job-‐related skills in the fields of a rts and communications. Torch’s u ltimate goal for its participants is for them to graduate both high school and college with a sense of purpose, direction and formulated goals -‐ www.thetorchprogram.org.
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Andrew Glover Youth Program (New York, NY) – In support of Andrew Glover’s educational and employment programs for both at-‐risk youth and youth offenders. The Andrew Glover Youth Program provides an alternative to incarceration for youth offenders and also provides crime-‐prevention programs for at-‐risk youth. Instead of sending k ids to jail, the court sends them to AGYP to intervene and reclaim young p eople f rom lives of crime. -‐ www.agyp.org.
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Opus 118 (New York, NY)-‐ In support of Opus 118’s general music p rogram. Opus 118 Harlem School of Music provides quality music instruction and teacher development in an environment that nurtures excellence and creativity. The organization upholds that all students are entitled to the education music provides and has many programs including both the In-‐School Music Program and A fter School Music Program -‐ www.opus118.org.
2007 Grantees: •
Uprose (Brooklyn, NY) — To support the Latino-‐based organization’s work in developing intergenerational indigenous leadership through activism. With a focus on the environment, Uprose is engaged in organizing, civic involvement, community education, research, advocacy, and community based planning (www.uprose.org/).
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Global Action Project (GAP) (New York, NY) — In support of their Immigrant and Refugee Program which works with 15 immigrants and refugees as they support each other, find the commonalities of their stories, explore the political and social root causes of global migration and the policies that both help and hinder immigrants, and use media to share their experiences with broader audiences. Global Action Project provides media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities (www.global-‐ action.org).
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Urban Word (New York, NY) – To support their in-‐school and after-‐school workshops in creative writing, journalism, literature and hip hop. Urban Word seeks to ensure that New York City youth have a safe, supportive, dynamic and challenging community with which to discover their powerful voices-‐ through written and spoken word-‐ and use them to strengthen their self esteem and engage them in opportunities that address the sociopolitical issues that affect them (www.urbanwordnyc.org/).
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The DOME Project (New York, NY) — For their Juvenile Justice Program, which provides counseling, court advocacy, and assistance with educational and vocational placement to criminal offenders or at risk youth. DOME also offers therapeutic group, individual and family counsel in order to help youths become productive members of society (www.domeproject.org). NB. This was a special pledge grant which was given to Dome in December 2007. The Dome Project a lso received grants in 2005 & 2006.
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Heads Up! Children Read, Listen, Learn! (New York, NY) — To support its book distribution program, which distributes books to young patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital-‐Cornell Medical (www.nycornell.org/pediatrics/headsup).
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Groove With Me (New York, NY) — To assist in their efforts to nurture compassionate, confident young women through free dance classes (www.groovewithme.org/index.htm).
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Fresh Youth Initiatives (New York, NY) — In support of their work to develop a generation of concerned, committed community leaders that will contribute to the betterment of Washington Heights and the city as a whole (www.freshyouth.org).
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The DOME Project (New York, NY) — For their Juvenile Justice Program, which provides counseling, court advocacy, and assistance with educational and vocational placement to criminal offenders or at risk youth. DOME also offers therapeutic group, individual and family counsel in order to help youths become productive members of society (www.domeproject.org). The Dome Project also received a grant in 2005.
2005 Grantees: •
Cool Culture (New York, NY) — For general support of their programs which p rovide access to and information about cultural institutions to low-‐income families. Cool Culture enriches the lives of 24,000 families through forty-‐two partnerships with museums, zoos and other cultural locations (www.cool-‐culture.org).
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Community Word Project (New York, NY) — To support their work in using poetry and other arts as tools to develop reading, writing, and leadership skills of at-‐risk students in the NYC public-‐school system (www.CommunityWordProject.org). Community Word Project also received a grant in 2004.
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The DOME Project (New York, NY) — For their Juvenile Justice Program, which provides counseling, court advocacy, and assistance with educational and vocational placement to criminal offenders or at risk youth. DOME also offers therapeutic group, individual and family counsel in order to help youths become productive members of society (www.domeproject.org). Only Make Believe (New York, NY) — To fund their six week theatre program at hospitals and host facilities. The Only Make Believe team introduces disabled children to the elements of theatre and encourages them to participate in their own dramatic productions. Only Make Believe succeeds in transforming the children into stars ‘with a sense of self-‐worth and self-‐esteem’ (www.onlymakebelieve.org).
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Urban Dove (New York, NY) – For their H i-‐Risers p rogram, which trains a youth staff of high-‐school students to be m entors and coaches of elementary and middle school students (www.UrbanDove.org).
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Community Word Project (New York, NY) – To support their work in using poetry and other arts as tools to develop reading, writing and leadership skills of at-‐risk students in the NYC public-‐school system (www.CommunityWordProject.org).
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Groundswell Community Mural Project (Brooklyn, NY) – For their Great Walls 2005 program, which brings together low-‐income youth and professional a rtists to d esign and create a series of large outdoor murals which embrace subject matter that is important to their communities (www.GroundswellMural.org).
