2006 Grant History
December 2006
- $15,000
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee
Nashville, TN
This grant will enable them to fully tackle their Extreme Game Room Makeover project.
November 2006
- $20,000
- Nashville Alliance for Public Education
Nashville, TN
For the second year in a row a grant has been made to the Nashville Alliance for Public Education. Their mission is to raise private support for public education to assist the Metropolitan Nashville Public School system in becoming a top performing school system in the nation, and to help our public schools improve and our public school students be successful.
October 2006
- $10,000
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary School (PS 80)
New York, NY
Based in Queens, Lloyd Banks has donated $10,000 to the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School (PS 80). The Foundation has donated $10,000 to purchase much-needed computers for their classrooms.
- $10,000
- August Martin High School
Jamaica, NY
Lloyd Banks donated $10,000 to his former high school to purchase new books for their library.
July 2006
- $70,000
- Summer Stars Camp for the Performing Arts
Scitutate, MA
The Camp provides deserving youth, ages 12 – 16, an intensive experience in the performing arts. This experience provides campers the opportunity to explore and develop their talents.
- $22,500
- Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts, Harlem
New York, NY
Based in Harlem, the Conservatory provides professional training in music, dance and drama for children and teens to prepare them for professional music careers.
- $25,000
- 92nd Street Y
New York, NY
The Program includes the Musical Introduction Series and Schools Partnership Program, which place professional teaching artists in underserved NYC elementary schools where they work with students and teachers in the classroom throughout the year,
- $150,000
- New York Restoration Project
New York, NY
This new outdoor children's learning garden would serve a Queens neighborhood, which could greatly benefit from revitalized green space. In conjunction with area schools, gardening can be used to teach children a variety of subjects and to strengthen learning in science, math, and language arts.
- $15,000
- Project Hope
Queens, NY
Project Hope is a nonprofit service organization located in the Queens Village area of New York that seeks to continue a Learning Development Community comprehensive after-school program of academic enhancement & youth leadership development training with incentive and interrelated activities in cultural, recreation and sports.
June 2006
- $25,000
- Stepping Stone Day School
Kew Garden Hills, NY
Based in Kew Gardens, New York the Foundation supported this school with a $25,000 grant.
May 2006
- $31,000
- Queensborough Community Scholarship
Bayside, NY
The first 10 scholarships were awarded in the summer of 2005. In 2006, those same students were awarded a second year's scholarship. Ten new students in the summer of 2006 were selected.
March 2006
- $5,000
- Fannie Battle Day Home for Children
Nashville, TN
Fannie Battle is unique among childcare centers that serve low-income families, in that tuition is set on a sliding scale according to income. Also, parents are required to be working, in school, or in a job-training program.
- $17,000
- Ronald Edmonds Learning Center - Middle School 113
New York, NY
Over the past six years the Center has taken over one hundred fifty boys and girls, ages 11-15, to tour and visit a number of historically black colleges and universities along the east coast.
