2007 Grant History
December 2007
- $15,000
- Project Hope
New York, NY
The mission of Project Hope is to create safe havens for youth and adults in neighborhoods affected by substance abuse, crime, idle time, poor education, and violence. It seeks to continue a Learning Development Community comprehensive after-school program of academic enhancement and youth leadership development training with incentive and interrelated activities in cultural, recreation, and sports. They prepare youth to meet the challenges of adolescence through activities, which help them to become socially, emotionally, physically, and cognitively competent and resilient. Project Hope is the only program providing such services in Queens Village.
- $35,000
- Summer Stars Camp for the Performing Arts
Northfield, MA
The Camp provides deserving youth, ages 12 – 15, an intensive experience in the performing arts. This experience provides campers the opportunity to explore and develop their talents. The Camp offers small group programs in improvisational acting, blues performance, dance, musical theater/choral singing, set design, juggling, drumming, and music video production. Through their work together, campers build a level of cooperation and respect that develops a real community atmosphere.
- $10,000
- Literacy for Incarcerated Teens
New York, NY
LIT’s mission is to encourage all incarcerated and detained young people to reach their maximum levels of proficiency as readers and to adopt a literate lifestyle. The request is to fund the second phase of creating a model school media center at Summit, a non-secure school site serving students in custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice in NYC. It is their goal that A Community of Readers becomes a demonstration project of national and international renown as the gold standard for library services for incarcerated youth. They will promote literacy among two thousand students a year at Summit.
- $5,000
- Stoked Mentoring
New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA
Stoked Mentoring is a nonprofit action sports organization for at-risk youth with the mission of developing Successful Teens with Opportunity, Knowledge, Experience, and Determination through the use of action sports, mentoring, and coaching. Stoked develops innovative mentoring programs introducing youth and their mentors to action sports as a means to develop a bond. By learning the sports together, through hands-on partnerships with social service agencies, Stoked presents and oversees several programs yearly including: Snow Mentor, Skate Mentor, and Surf Mentor. Responsible for developing the curriculum for each mentoring programs, Stoked recruits and trains mentors, youth, volunteers, teachers, and coaches; hand-matches mentor and mentee; and manages the mentoring relationship for optimal results. The current programs are targeted towards the at-risk teens between the age of thirteen and eighteen.
June 2007
- $62,000
- Queensborough Community College
Bayside, NY
Entering our third year partnership with QCC, the Foundation is proud to support ten incoming students, as well as continue providing scholarships for our second year students.
- $6,500
- Fannie Battle Day Home for Children
Nashville, TN
Last year G-Unity Foundation provided a Physical Education teacher and all new equipment for their summer program. This grant provides funds to re-hire the teacher and run the summer program. This will also fund swimming lessons, hip-hop dance, cheerleading, and gymnastics and tumbling instruction through the highly acclaimed Kidskills program. Entering its third year, their Summer Enrichment Program offers a full, well-rounded schedule of academic and enrichment activities Monday through Friday. In addition to the above items, the schedule includes tutoring, computer, art, music, and Mad Science programs.
- $15,000
- Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts
New York, NY
The Harbor Conservatory was established in 1970, and is a program of Boys & Girls Harbor, INC. a 69-year-old non-profit multi service youth agency. While a program of a larger agency, the Conservatory is responsible for raising it’s own operating budget and has a designated development/publicity/outreach director. Today the conservatory is a full service dance, theater and music facility with an international faculty of 65 talented, dedicated artist/teachers, all of whom are working professional artists committed to developing their students a combination of technical and personal skills.
- $10,000
- HerShe Group, Camp Cinderella/Cinderella Ball
Los Angeles, CA
Camp Cinderella is a solution and more than a summer camp- it’s year round program of extraordinary experiences through the arts, mentorship, exposure and education with a summer camp experience as the focal point.
- $15,000
- African Center for Community Empowerment
Queens, NY
The mission of the African Center for Community Empowerment is to empower and groom at-risk inner city youth to become wholesome functioning and productive members of society; to train and provide the tools necessary for low income teens and young adult parents to help themselves and their children by becoming responsible adults and better parents.
January 2007
- $20,000
- Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc.
Jamaica, NY
JCAL is a nonprofit that offers visual, performing, and literary arts, arts educational and artist’s programs to encourage participation in the arts and to contribute to the cultural enrichment of the children and adults of Queens and the greater metropolitan area.
- $5,000
- Edgehill Center, Inc.
Nashville, TN
Through a variety of services, Edgehill Center supports their mission to empower families and individuals by providing quality childcare, youth enrichment programs, parent education and community services for low and middle-income residents of Edgehill/South Nashville area. In addition to daycare activities, Edgehill Center works in partnership with the Second Harvest Food Bank to provide Kids Café, an evening meal to children in the community during the school year. ECI also provides families enrolled in their childcare with limited food assistance with our Bread Table every Tuesday.
- $10,000
- Foundation for Second Chances, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Foundation for Second Chances’ (FFSC) mission is to make sure that their children are being provided with the basic necessities such as a quality education, the opportunity to flourish in a safe and nurturing environment, an opportunity to build self-confidence and self-esteem, and the ability to achieve.
