2008 Foundation Grants Report

AARP Foundation
$155,000
The first of a two-year, $319,000 grant to continue the AARP’s work in New York State by providing advanced training to professionals involved with children and caregivers in kincare (that is, grandparents raising grandchildren) relationships.

AARP Foundation
$100,000
The first installment of a three-year, $300,000 grant to modernize its highly successful signature volunteer AARP Tax-Aide program by creating a user-friendly, Web-based recruitment tool.

Big Brothers Big Sisters New York City
$55,000
The first installment of a two-year, $110,000 grant to enhance the proven, positive impact that mentoring has on academic success.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America
$60,000
The first installment of a three-year, $600,000 grant to enhance child safety throughout the Boys & Girls Club Movement.

Brooklyn Public Library
$153,100
This final installment of a two-year, $310,000 grant supports Brooklyn Connections, a far-ranging learning program connecting Brooklyn eighth-grade students with the unique historical and cultural resources at Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection.

The Catalog for Giving
$100,000
This first installment of a three-year, $300,000 grant supports this guide for potential donors, which includes ten selected nonprofits in New York City.

Child Welfare League of America
$221,000
The second installment of a three-year, $748,000 grant to expand Fostering Healthy Connections, a mentoring program where youth who used to be in foster care mentor children who are now in foster care, to eight CWLA member agencies nationally.

Children’s Aid Society
$225,000
This first installment of a two-year, $450,000 grant supports the Next Generation Center, a one-stop facility to address the needs of a growing population of imperiled, disconnected youth, many of whom are finding themselves alone after aging out of New York City's foster care system.

Christian Herald Association
$51,000
This grant funds the New York Life Summer Scholars program, providing a summer full of enrichment for up to forty elementary-aged children from New York's inner-city neighborhoods.

City Year New York
$106,000
The second installment of a three-year, $318,000 grant to support the Team Sponsorship Program, which provides in-school tutoring, mentoring, literacy intervention, library initiatives, civic-based lunch clubs and an educational enrichment service-based after-school program in the Bronx.

Civic Ventures
$100,000
A one-time, general operating support grant to this think tank and incubator generating ideas and inventing programs in the area of civic engagement for older adults.

Coalition for the Homeless
$35,000
This one-time grant supports youth service programs which directly address their challenges by offering a comprehensive system that engages at-risk youth in constructive activities, and provides healing, mentorship and empowerment.

College for Every Student
$200,000
This first installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant supports the National Student Leadership Initiative, which enables underserved youth to take an active role in improving their schools and communities by increasing academic performance and attendance, helping students develop personal and academic goals, and ensuring that more of these youth graduate from high school and college.

Comfort Zone Camp
$1,000,000
This first installment of a three-year, $3 million grant designed to aid children who have lost a parent or caregiver by significantly increasing the number of children served; affecting a far greater national understanding of the societal implications if childhood loss and grief are not addressed; and expanding access by the general public and professionals to CZC’s demonstrated approaches and services.

Community Service Society of New York
$100,000
This one-time grant will support CSS’s financial education program that utilizes older adult volunteers as financial coaches for low-income New Yorkers.

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
$75,000
This grant supports the CBCF Congressional Internship Program, which provides undergraduate students with an in-depth orientation to Capitol Hill and the legislative process through actual work experience in the offices of Congressional Black Caucus members.

CORO New York Leadership Center
$77,251
The second installment of a three-year, $326, 010 grant to support technology and infrastructure improvement projects. New York Life’s Corporate Information Department is also providing in-kind technology expertise and has also hosted a CORO Fellow.

Developmental Studies Center
$500,000
This second installment of a two-year, $776,400 grant to DSC for wider dissemination of its after-school reading and mathematics enrichment programs, AfterSchool KidzLit and AfterSchool KidzMath, to children in low-income areas of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Friends of the Children National
$250,000
The first installment of a two-year, $500,000 grant to support staffing and data collection for the Friends of the Children Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial, a study to assess a professionally staffed, early intervention, long term mentoring model for highly at-risk children.

Fund for the City of New York
$100,000
This first installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant supports an alternative-to-detention program for young people awaiting the disposition of delinquency proceedings in Queens Family Court. The program combines supervision and monitoring by the court with social services and youth development programming for juveniles in Family Court who would otherwise be detained.

Fund for Public Schools
$250,000
This grant supports the school-wide performance bonus pilot for teachers and principals in 89 high-needs schools whose students met performance targets.

Fundacion Educa A.C.
$100,000
This first installment of a three-year, $300,000 grant supports Educa’s efforts to improve education in Mexico, including continuing improvement programs, funding computer work and a toy library.

Generations United
$60,000
The first installment of a two-year, $119,000 grant to support the identification of quality criteria that will allow agencies and programs to measure and market the effectiveness of their intergenerational programs, projects and initiatives in promoting interactions between generations.

Girl Scouts of the USA
$250,000
This grant supports the GSUSA/New York Life Foundation School Success Clubs, which offer school-based clubs that encourage girls' self-development and help build the confidence and leadership skills needed for high performance in academic classes.

Girls Incorporated
$250,000
This first installment of a $500,000 grant supports the Girls Inc. Violence Prevention Initiative, designed to stop violence in girls’ homes, schools and communities.

Greater New York Councils, Boy Scouts of America
$95,000
This one-time grant supports Learners for Life, the single largest program of the Greater New York Councils, which delivers character and life skills education programs to boys and girls during the school day.

Groundwork Inc.
$50,000
The final installment of a three-year, $225,000 grant to support Middle Ground, a pilot initiative in Brooklyn which engages students by offering a choice in programming and high school transition activities.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
$60,000
The final installment of a three-year, $265,000 grant to support 15 Hispanic Scholarship Fund outreach programs – seven Town Hall meetings and eight Steps for Success workshops – that help Hispanic students and their families meet the challenges of preparing for college.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
$225,000
This one-time grant supports 10 Hispanic Scholarship Fund outreach programs ― four Town Hall Meetings and six Steps for Success workshops ― for Hispanic students and their families in targeted cities in California, Georgia, Illinois, New York and Texas.

JA Worldwide
$263,600
This second installment of a three-year, $614,000 grant expands JA’s economic education programs in 21 JA member sites across the country in after-school settings serving predominantly low-income Hispanic communities.

The LEAGUE
$200,000
This first installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant encourages young people everywhere to give thoughtfully of their time, treasure and talent to make their community and world a better place. The teams do a variety of projects based both on community need and the interest of the participants. Projects include “drives” of various types (school supplies, food, coats, etc.) and environmental focused projects, along with other activities that benefit the community.

National 4-H Council
$475,500
The second installment of a four-year, $1.6 million grant to expand the New York Life Youth in Governance 4-H Clubs in Cleveland, Minneapolis and New York City.

National Academy Foundation
$200,000
This first installment of a three-year, $450,000 grant supports 15 Academies of Finance, which offer courses in financial services, economics, banking and monetary policy, securities, financial planning, international finance, accounting and business computer applications to public high school students in urban areas.

New Visions for Public Schools
$200,000
This first installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant will help build the capacity of school staff, parents and the community to work collaboratively towards one goal: ensuring that 80 percent of their New York City students graduate from high school prepared to succeed in college.

New York Public Library
$140,000
This grant funds children's programs, services, and books--a lifeline for those children and teens who do not have access to such resources at home--through six new hub libraries, the creation of which is a focal point of NYPL's new campaign.

Police Athletic League
$141,000
This second installment of a three-year, $405,000 grant supports CASTLE – Children’s Academic Success Through Literacy Enhancement, an early childhood education program designed to improve the academic achievements of inner-city youth through educational support and parental involvement, at the Miccio Youth Center in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

ReServe Elder Service, Inc.
$50,000
The first installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant to help achieve a substantial expansion in the program by creating materials that will publicize and demonstrate to nonprofit organizations the value that ReServists (older "employees") can bring to their organizations.

Safe Space NYC
$100,000
This one-time grant supports New York City’s most disadvantaged children and families to prevent unnecessary foster care placement, support and strengthen families, and promote economic stability.

Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning
$90,000
This first installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant will create a new model for engaging Latino elders in service to their communities. Two leading Latino organizations will serve as pilot sites; learning will be disseminated nationally and used to foster replication.

United Activities Unlimited
$98,400
This third installment of a four-year, $459,000 grant helps development of Project Succeed, an after-school educational enrichment program at three underserved middle schools on Staten Island’s north shore.

United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area
$100,000
This one-time grant supports the public safety of low-income children and youth in the New Orleans area by ensuring that quality summer programs are available in the still-devastated region.

Women in Need
$75,000
This one-time grant supports WIN’s Homework Helpers Program and its residential site in Harlem.