2004 Rochester Small Grants

Commission Project, Composers-For-Kids Daystar Equi Center, Inc. Garth Fagan Dance, photo by Greg Barrett Moonbeam 2 Earth, after-school musical theater MoKA, Museum of Kids Art Sojourner House, transitional housing program for women and children

Andrews Center          $ 10,000

Operating support for foster care home for children with special needs.

Big Brothers/Big Sisters                           $  1,000

Support for community and school-based Mentoring programs that provide established and effective mentoring activities for youth from single-parent families, ages 6-16.

Cameron Community Ministries                      $  8,000

Support for after-school and summer youth programs in

low-income neighborhood.

CASA of Rochester-Monroe County, Inc.              $  2,000

Support for advocacy program for children in foster care.

Center for Teen Empowerment 

                                     $ 15,000

Support for youth organizing project designed to turn youth

away from gang violence and toward confident involvement

with their communities and schools. Funds would be used to

hire Rochester teens to work as teen empowerment youth organizers under the supervision of staff.

Center for Youth Services                   $  5,000       

Support for co-dependency counseling services. The goal

of the program is for participants to experience self-sufficiency, and improve quality of life, and a sense of community through the provision of basic life skills training, co-dependency assessment, counseling, and support services.

The Children’s Agenda                         $ 15,000

Support to improve the well-being of children in the Greater

Rochester area by influencing public policies and practices,

to ensure that systems are responsive to the needs of all

children, by providing legislators and other decision makers

with reliable information to create positive outcomes for children.

The Commission Project, Inc.              $ 5,000

Support for Composers – For-Kids, an initiative that brings

professional composers into urban and suburban schools to

work directly with students. TCP composers are commissioned to mentor music students, foster creativity and learning, and engage students in the creation of an original piece of music.

Compeer                                                    $ 5,000

Support for mentoring program, Juvenile Substance Use

Intervention Program, for youth that are “dual diagnosed”

as having both mental illness and drug abuse issues. 

Youth are referred directly from the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court.

Daystar                                                        $ 12,500

Support for program that serves as a foster home for

infants with special needs, who require 24 hour monitoring

with life support machines, feeding tubes and medications

as part of their care.

East House Corporation                          $ 2,000

Support for RIT Enrichment Program that provides adults

who are recovering from mental illness or chemical dependency and have educational/work goals, an opportunity to experience college life for 2 weeks during the summer of 2005.

Equi Center, Inc.                                         $ 5,000

Support for new agency that would provide therapeutic

horseback riding and equine-facilitated mental health

programs for at-risk youth and individuals with a variety of

disabilities. Pilot phase May – November 2004.

Fredrick Douglass Middle School           $ 15,000

Support for Alternative Suspension Program, which seeks to

reduce out-of-school suspensions by having the students

serve their suspension on Saturday from 9:00am to 12:00

noon and Wednesday from 1:45pm to 4:45pm.

Friends of Children and Families in Crisis   $ 5,000

Support for adventure based program at St. Joseph’s Villa

for juveniles who are respondents in juvenile drug court of

Monroe County Family Court.

Garth Fagan Dance                                   $ 25,000

Support for salary for dance school administrator and teaching apprentices.

Genesee Community College Foundation – LIFE      

                                                                       $ 5,645

Support for Liberty Partnership program administered by the NY State Dept of Education, which awards grants to

postsecondary institutions for the purposes of providing

services to students in public and non-public schools who are at-risk.

Greater Rochester Enterprise Foundation                

                                                                      $ 25,000

Support for private-public economic development

organization dedicated to job creation in the Rochester

region.

Moonbeam 2 Earth Project                      $ 9,205

Support for two innovative after-school musical theater programs for under-served, at-risk elementary school children in the Maplewood area and south quadrants of Rochester.

MoKA – Museum of Kids Art                    $ 5,000           

Support for start-up funding for children’s art museum, MoKA.

Partners in Community Development    $ 2,000

Support for youth services at the Pines of Perinton,

a low-income housing complex.

Planned Parenthood                                  $ 8,000              

Support to translate web site into Spanish as part of Planned Parenthood’s Hispanic Outreach Initiative.

Rochester City School District – No Child Left Behind                                                          $  5,000

Support for No Child Left Behind program in which parents are expected to be accountable for the academic progress of their children.

Salvation Army                                           $ 7,500

Support for Genesis House, a shelter for homeless and runaway youth.           

Sojourner House                                       $ 10,000

Support for six-month transitional housing program for women and children.

Spiritus Christi Mental Health Center    $ 7,700           

Support for mental health program which serves uninsured,

and under-insured men, women and children.

St. Joseph’s Neighborhood                    $ 7,700           

Support for mental health program for low-income individuals.

St. Joseph ’s Villa of Rochester             $ 5,000           

Support for Water Tower Academy, an alternative educational program for at-risk youth.

Water Education Collaborative of Rochester Museum and Science Center                $ 10,000

Support for program, which provides water quality education services to the public within the Genesee River region watersheds. To inspire people to help protect and improve water quality in our river, lakes and streams.

Westside Health                                        $ 11,000         

Support for dental equipment for community health center

that serves a very low-income population.

Wilson Alliance                                         $ 25,000         

Support for half time staff person to raise funds to support students and academic programs at Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School.

YWCA                                                          $ 11,471         

Support for Women Power: Getting Unstuck and Getting Ahead, a pilot project for women currently in transitional housing and for those who have moved on to permanent housing.