2011 Foundation Grants List

2011 Selected Nurturing the Children Grants 

Educational Enhancement
After-School All-Stars 
$100,000

This final installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant supports “We Are Ready,” a high school transition and career exploration program. 

BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
$300,000

This second installment of a four-year, $1 million grants supports the national expansion of BELL’s summer and after-school learning programs. 

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College
$100,000 

This final installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant supports the Latino collegiate society program in math and science, an out-of-school, academically rigorous course of study. 

Brooklyn Public Library 
$100,000 

This first installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant supports Brooklyn Connections, a program designed to help eighth graders with their exit projects from grammar school. 

The Children’s Aid Society
$150,000 

This second installation of a three-year, $450,000 grant supports the Next Generation Center, which addresses the needs of disconnected youth aging out of New York City’s foster care system. 

Citizen Schools 
$200,000 

This final installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant supports their extended learning time initiative, which extends and enhances the traditional school day. 

Classroom Inc. 
$100,000 

This final installment of a two-year, $300,000 grant supports the High School Project, which helps over-age and under-credited high school students earn the credits they need to graduate. 

Cristo Rey Network 
$100,000

This final installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant supports the “Good to Great” program, which emphasizes college readiness in its network of schools.

Developmental Studies Center
$810,000

This final installment of a three-year, $2.4 million grant to disseminate its afterschool reading and mathematics enrichment programs, AfterSchool KidzLit and After School KidzMath, to children in low-income areas of twelve cities across the nation.

Girl Scout Council of Greater New York
$200,000

This second installment of a three-year, $600,000 grant supports their Career Exploration Program for low-income middle-school girls.

Girls Incorporated
$200,000

This first installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant supports their efforts to reach more middle-school girls across the nation.

Good Shepherd Services

This second installment of a three-year, $375,000 grant supports their Aiming High Leadership Initiative for middle-school youth in the Bronx.

Harlem Children’s Zone
$125,000

This first installment of a two-year, $250,000 grant supports their College Preparation Program.

The Hetrick-Martin Institute
$100,000

This one-year grant supports their tutoring center in New York City and a new LGBTQ after-school center in Newark, NJ.

JA Worldwide
$165,000

This first installment of a two-year, $330,000 grant supports JA’s Skills for Success initiative for middle- and high school students.

The LEAGUE

$200,000

This final installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant supports their Education in America: Service Leader Network of 200,000 student and adult tutors, mentors and volunteers in schools, agencies and communities.

National 4-H Council
$260,000

This first installment of a three-year, $1 million grant supports their New York Life Youth in Governance Clubs.

National Academy Foundation
$100,000

This one-year grant supports six new NAF Academies of Finance, which offer courses in personal finance to high school freshmen.

National Summer Learning Association
$200,000

This final installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant supports programs that emphasize high school completion, college skills, and workforce readiness.

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
$200,000

This one-year grant supports their programs for disconnected youth – young people who are neither in school nor working.

New Visions for Public Schools
$250,000

This first installment of a two-year, $500,000 grant supports their College Ready initiative, which helps high-schoolers and their families prepare for college.

New York Public Library
$100,000

This first installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant supports their teen outreach and programs.

Partnership for After School Education
$100,000

This final installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant increases middle- and high school afterschool programs to prepare at-risk students for college admission and success.

The Queens Library Foundation
$100,000

This first installment of a two-year, $200,000 grant supports the Youth Workforce Development initiative.

The After-School Corporation
$200,000

This final installment of a two-year, $400,000 grant supports their Expanded Learning Time program in New York City.

Virtual Enterprises International
$260,000

This first installment of a four-year, $1 million grant supports the Expanding Educational Opportunities program and the 2011 National Business Plan Competition. The program offers students and in-school, experiential learning model where youth develop virtual businesses and gain real world skills as they develop business plans.

Year Up
$200,000

This final installment of a two-year, $350,000 grant supports their intensive education and job training program for young adults.

Youth Development Institute
$150,000

This first installment of a two-year, $300,000 grant supports the expansion of the Ladders to Leadership Program for middle school youth in after-school programs, which serve a total of 300 students at nine sites throughout New York City.

Childhood Bereavement

Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
$125,000

This one-year grant supports the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards’ New York Life scholarships for art and literature on the subject of bereavement and grief.

Association of Educational Publishers (Scholastic)
$285,000

This final installment of a two-year, $460,000 grant supports their print and online materials for educators, parents and children on the subject of childhood bereavement.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America
$260,000

This first installment of a four-year, $1 million grant supports their “Be There” nationwide grief and bereavement initiative.

Comfort Zone Camp
$500,000

This one-year grant supports the general operations of this camp for children who have suffered the loss of someone close to them.

The Moyer Foundation
$350,000

This grant supports Camp Erin National Bereavement Camps, which support children who have lost a parent, sibling, or caregiver, and their National Bereavement Camp Conference.

Sesame Workshop
$400,000

This grant supports the “When Families Grieve” collection of multimedia resources to support children who are grieving the death of a parent.

St. John’s University
$105,000

This one-year grant supports the New York City Child Bereavement Service Development Project, which assesses the current state of child bereavement services available to families.

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
$250,000

This one-time grant supports their national Military Survivor Seminars for adults and Good Grief Camps for children who are coping with the death of a loved one who was serving in the military.

Grief Reach Program Grants¹ 

• Annie's Hope - The Bereavement Center for Kids - Glendale, MO
• Bo's Place - Houston, TX
• The Center for Grieving Children, Teens and Families - Philadelphia, PA 
• Children's Bereavement Center, Inc. - Miami, FL 
• Children's Grief Center of El Paso - El Paso, TX 
• Cornerstone of Hope - Independence, OH 
• East Bay Agency for Children - Circle of Care - Oakland, CA 
• Ele's Place - Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor, MI
• Family Hospice Heartlinks Grief Center - Belleville, IL 
• Henry Ford Health System Sand Castles Grief Support Program for Children and Families - Detroit, MI 
• Hospice of Anchorage's Forget Me Not Grief Program - Anchorage, AK 
• Hospice at Home - Lory's Place - St. Joseph, MI 
• Kate's Club - Atlanta, GA
• KinderMourn - Charlotte, NC 
• Mourning Hope Grief Center - Lincoln, NE 
• Northern Illinois Hospice and Grief Center - Rockford, IL 
• Outreach for Grieving Youth Alliance, DBA Kids hurt too - Honolulu, HI 
• Roberta's House - Baltimore, MD 
• Suncoast Kids Place - Lutz, FL
• Supporting Kidds, Inc. - Hockessin, DE
• Ted E. Bear Hollow, Inc. - Omaha, NE 
• Wendt Center for Loss and Healing - Washington, DC

¹ The Grief Reach Program only accepts applications through a Request for Proposals grants process. For more information please see the National Alliance for Grieving Children, www.childrengrieve.org.