New York Life Foundation’s 2008 Awards Program Supports Mentoring

The New York Life Foundation is dedicated to helping young people fulfill their potential and grow into productive adults. To achieve these goals the Foundation established the Nurturing the Children initiative in 1998. Nurturing the Children devotes the majority of Foundation resources to organizations and programs that provide children with safe places to learn and grow, educational enhancement, and mentoring. Thus far, the Foundation has committed more than $25 million to this initiative.

In 2004, the Foundation expanded its commitment by launching the Awards Program, which recognizes exemplary, innovative Nurturing the Children programs created and managed by smaller nonprofit charitable organizations not typically recipients of grants from the Foundation.

The annual New York Life Foundation Awards Program provides six $25,000 grants one in each New York City borough and one in Westchester County. These grants are earmarked for one-time-only program support for existing programs.

For the 2008 Awards Program, organizations can only apply for one of their existing programs that provide services that fit the Foundation’s Mentoring category, which includes programs that offer young people sustained relationships with caring adults and/or peers who serve as positive role models. Mentors may be parents, extended family members or other caregivers; community members; teachers; older peers or others who spend time with youth.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Check back in the fall to apply for the 2009 Foundation Awards.

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