Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Congressionally Directed Spending Requests for Fiscal Year 2022
Senator Gillibrand has submitted funding requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee for various state and local community projects that will benefit New Yorkers all across the state. Projects are listed in alphabetical order by location.
Under guidelines issued by the Senate Appropriations Committee, each Senator had the opportunity to submit CDS requests for their state for Fiscal Year 2022. It should be noted that only a handful of projects may actually be funded, and we cannot guarantee which those will be. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams, and only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding.
In compliance with Senate Rules and Committee requirements, Senator Gillibrand has certified that she and her immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects she has requested.
Project Location: Albany, NY
Amount Requested: $74,000
Recipient: Our Ability Alliance
Project Description: Operational expenses to build further training for individuals with disabilities looking for skill development, mentor opportunities, interview training and employment outcomes.
Project Location: Albany, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: University of Albany, SUNY
Project Description: The requested funding will be used to purchase a Next Generation RNA Technology Package which includes an Illumina NextSeq2000 sequencing platform ($250,000) and the Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2 technology confocal microscope system ($750,000). The requested equipment will advance The RNA Institute’s critical research, aid in the battle against SARS-CoV-2 variants, and support the efforts of hundreds of scientists throughout the region who depend on the Institute for its facilities, expertise, and leadership.
Project Location: Albany, NY
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Recipient: Creation of a SUNY-wide ‘Social Equity Early Alert System’ to Improve Disadvantaged Student Graduation Rates
Project Description: With an investment from Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, SUNY System Administration will lead the development of a versatile technology platform that 1) tracks student progress across all 64 SUNY campuses, 2) includes a wide range of factors that could result in a student’s departure from campus, and 3) establishes an early alert system in order to empower campuses to create individualized networks of support (from academic advisement to mental health and more) around students whose completion is at risk.
Project Location: Alfred, NY
Amount Requested: $85,000
Recipient: A. E. Crandall Hook & Ladder Co
Project Description: Requested funds will be used to purchase two Zoll X-Series 12-lead defibrillator monitors and one Laerdal Resusci Annie cardiac manikin to provide Advanced Life Support care to the community and supportive training to our volunteers.
Project Location: Amsterdam
Amount Requested: $1,027,000
Recipient: Liberty ARC
Project Description: Funding would go to capital improvements, including upgrading a 25 year old HVAC system and adding a sterilization room, for a health & dental clinic serving low income (Medicaid) patients in Amsterdam, NY.
Project Location: Barker, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Village of Barker
Project Description: The project will construct a new Village Hall and Library to replace the one that burnt to the ground in a fire. The project will provide the Village with necessary basic public infrastructure, create construction jobs, and provide a venue for critical community events and educational/training programs.
Project Location: Batavia
Amount Requested: $900,000
Recipient: GLOW YMCA, Inc.
Project Description: The funding would go capital improvements to develop a healthy living campus in partnership with Rochester Regional, United Memorial Medical Center. The Healthy Living Campus will have a transformative impact on the revitalization of Downtown Batavia and will provide Genesee County with a first class facility offering holistic, multi-generational health services that address disease prevention, wellness, nutrition, rehabilitation and therapy for the mind and body.
Project Location: Brightwaters, NY
Amount Requested: $150,000
Recipient: Moxxie Network
Project Description: The need for our services has grown even more due to Covid-19 and we seek funding to help women to enter, re-enter and advance in the workforce. The capacity-building grant will be used to hire staff, purchase equipment and obtain a state-of-the-art technology and CRM system.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $912,000
Recipient: Rosalyn Yalow Charter School
Project Description: We are requesting funding for the construction of a Montefiore Health Clinic at 650 Grand Concourse, which will serve Rosalyn Yalow Charter School and the Cardinal Hayes High School.
Project Location: Bronx
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Lehman College
Project Description: This would support students with part-time wages for the next academic year as they support the economic recovery and revitalization in the Bronx due to COVID-19.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: Per Scholas NY Satellite Partnership Project
Project Description: Per Scholas’ NY Satellite Partnership project will deliver high-quality IT training and individualized professional development services to 400+ low-income New Yorkers from traditionally underrepresented communities in all five boroughs through a blended learning model that will prepare program graduates for, and connect them with, in-demand IT employment. Funds will be used for instructional staff at multiple sites; management, oversight, and support staff; technology, equipment, and supplies to create connected classrooms on-site and at partnering organizations; technology toolkits for a portion of the learners to access the training remotely; textbooks and class materials; fringe benefits; and rent.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $454,000
Recipient: Fordham University
Project Description: This proposed project aims to expand the Clinical Mental Health Services (CCMH) in the Bronx Program — funded in 2020 through the support of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation — to counteract the negative health effects of the pandemic.
Project Location: Bronx
Amount Requested: $394,000
Recipient: Stand Up to Violence (SUV) Program
Project Description: NYC Health + Hospitals/ Jacobi is requesting additional funding to increase mental health services under the umbrella of our Stand Up to Violence Program
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $1,028,000
Recipient: CUNY Institute of Health Equity
Project Description: CUNY Institute of Health Equity (CIHE) has partnered with Catholic Charities, Betances Houses located in Hunts Point and New Haven to implement a disease prevention and health promotion intervention that coach individuals and families to self-monitor their health biometrics and improve their health. This initiative seeks to prevent onset of diseases such as diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular, and improve chronic disease self-management, by shifting the duty from health care model to individuals to monitor their own blood pressure, weight, body mass index, and respiratory function with a simplified protocol, paired with health promotion coaches.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $6,419,000
Recipient: One Brooklyn Health
Project Description: This project furthers the transformation plan of three nonprofit, safety-net hospitals serving the communities of north Central Brooklyn, and ongoing capital grant by supplementing budget and program gaps created by COVID-19 related programmatic challenges and delays. This project will involve the purchase of state of the art equipment-to replace end of life equipment, hospital equipment systems, and a Electronic Health Record upgrade and related “At the elbow” staff training, to improve the health outcomes and patient safety and satisfaction for the residents of Central Brooklyn.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $800,000
Recipient: The HOPE Program
Project Description: The requested funding would support transitional employment and green jobs training for New Yorkers facing significant barriers to employment through on-the-job experience in horticulture and solar panel installation; training in industry hard skills, essential skills, digital skills, and financial literacy; and job placement and career support. Specific expenses will include transitional wages for trainees; salaries for staff lines including program coordinators, hard skill trainers, and employment specialists; certification costs; technology; and other expense lines as specified in our budget attachment.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $800,000
Recipient: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy (rTMS)
Project Description: rTMS is used to treat treatment-resistant depression for two decades, and is has emerging evidence for treament of post-sroke depression and Obsessive Compulsion Disorder. Racial and Ethnic disparitie exist in access to newer treatment in healthcare like rTMS.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $877,000
Recipient: Expanding Access to Specialty Services Through eCo
Project Description: The program will provide a shared platform for eConsult referral access across a network of community providers and Federally Qualified Health Centers throughout Brooklyn, including the Bedford-Stuyvesant Family Health Center, Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center, Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health and Wellness Center, Housing Works, Maimonides Medical Center, One Brooklyn Health, and SUNY Downstate. Requested funding is for cloud-based platform licensing, initiation, and support; development and testing of interfaces between platform and electronic health records to support clinical documentary and billing; training development and delivery.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $980,000
Recipient: Infusion Center at New York Community Hospital
Project Description: Requested funding is for renovation and demolition, site development, temporary utilities, planning consultant fees, and architect/engineering fees.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $632,000
Recipient: Brooklyn Parenting Center at Maimonides Medical Ce
Project Description: The Parenting Center will provide support from conception to age 2, integrating early childhood psychologists into prenatal visits, providing inpatient and outpatient parenting classes from pediatricians and early childhood psychologists, and care management to connect with key community resources. Money will be spent on clinical staff, including a psychologist, social workers, a pediatrician, and a care manager; training costs; program coordination, research and evaluation.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival
Project Description: We are requesting funds to support the educational and knowledge resources that are associated with the promotion and development of Caribbean literature and Caribbean writers in the North American diaspora. These programs are an extension of the literary festival where writers can expound and share their work.
Project Location: Brooklyn
Amount Requested: $1,925,000
Recipient: SUNY Health Sciences University
Project Description: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is requesting $1.925M to establish a Center for Community Health network to provide comprehensive primary care to the underserved neighborhoods of central Brooklyn.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $1,245,000
Recipient: St. Francis College
Project Description: To provide resources that promote educational access and that emphasize diversity, equity and inclusion at St. Francis College and the New York communities we serve.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Project Description: Funds allocated to the Technology Mobility Initiatives will support their expansion in FY2022 as we work to engage education and employment partners, accommodate more residents in our Bridge to Tech programs and double recruitment in Breakthrough Technology Fellowship to 75 participants per year.
Project Location: Brooklyn
Amount Requested: $921,000
Recipient: Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet
Project Description: Requested funding will be used for implementing our Arts In Education program in eight Brooklyn based schools obtaining equipment for the program such as instruments, costumes, and art supplies, funding field trips, providing resources for our lecture demonstrations, providing costumes, props and technical needs for our in school performances, and providing salaries for our artistic teaching staff..
Project Location: Brooklyn, New York
Amount Requested: $4,750,000
Recipient: NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull
Project Description: The overall goal is to renovate the existing ED which was constructed in the 70’s and is approximately 8,600 SF. Areas include Acute, Trauma, Critical and Triage, as well as, the Radiology Waiting Room inclusive of the reconfiguration of space for an existing Ultrasound Unit to improve patient throughput. The ED consists of 28 cubicle bays. Some of the objectives include the replacement of utilities, electrical, medical gases, HVAC and plumbing, as well as, replacement of light fixtures, doors, air registers, headwalls, ceilings, flooring, specialty lighting and painting.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $400,000
Recipient: Make the Road NY
Project Description: Through this project Make the Road New York (MRNY) will expand and sustain adult education services for immigrant New Yorkers. They will provide English Language Acquisition (ELA) and Citizenship Preparation (civics) classes that will advance students’ career opportunities and connect them to our holistic services to meet immediate needs.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $9,216,000
Recipient: Brooklyn Hospital Center
Project Description: The scope of the Emergency Department Modernization includes COVID-19 Enhancements, including capital improvements, new equipment and program elements like an Observation Unit, Morgue Renovation, and additional support space. The completion of this project is critical to expedite the registration process and allow patients to move into treatment faster.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: West Indian American Day Carnival Association
Project Description: The funds will be used as part of the operational expenses for the improvement of arts, music and technology education (instructors, equipment, supplies, apps and technology and production.
Project Location: Brooklyn, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Project Description: This Medgar Evers College proposal request for sponsorship constitutes an innovative approach to contributing to job creation and workforce development by upskilling, re-tooling, and exploring opportunities among the existing Brooklyn labor force. The approach consists of creating an entrepreneurship incubation and workforce development initiative that will bring together a broad array of stakeholders and institutions to engage in broad and positive change on many of the dismal metrics that community members face.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $456,000
Recipient: Fordham University
Project Description: The Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, in conjunction with Goddard Riverside Community Center (GRCC), a settlement house on the West Side of Manhattan in NYC, will provide direct services to high-risk, low-income community members socially and emotionally impacted by COVID-19 via ASCEND (Access and Support for Community Engagement a Needed Demonstration), a psychosocial support and outreach program. The focus will include three different populations: (1) 250-300 middle and high school age youth; (2) 50-75 caregiving adults (parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles and others); and (3) 30-50 direct line staff.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $1,360,000
Recipient: St. Barnabas Hospital
Project Description: St. Barnabas Hospital respectfully requests $1,360,451 to purchase a Computerized Tomography Scanner (CT Scanner) for its Emergency Room, which will allow ER staff to quickly examine patients who may have internal injuries from car accidents or other types of trauma, including a surge of gun violence in our community. SBH is a New York State-designated Level II Trauma Center, one of just three trauma centers in the Bronx.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Recipient: UD Team II Bronx: SBYD Coaching Program and New Bu
Project Description: UD Team II Bronx requests funding for an important and unique piece of our program – to support the work of our full-time youth development coaches. UD Team currently employs 15 full-time coaches, each of whom works with a team of 18-20 students. Specific elements include providing trauma-sensitive professional development; building an internal pipeline of candidates through external educational opportunities; and training coaches in the Neurosequential Model in Sport. UD Team II Bronx also requests capital funding for construction costs related to our new school building in the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx. This school building will be the home of Urban Dove Team Charter School II Bronx for 30 years, and will function as a community-based asset for use by thousands of Bronx youth and families.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $591,000
Recipient: Urban Health Plan
Project Description: Urban Health plan (UHP) requests a grant of $591,100 for renovation and technology upgrades at a number of its sites. Specifically, the funds will be used to renovate the roofs of four of its sites, update the HVAC systems in three sites and upgrade the digital technology necessary to provide telemedicine services at one site. With the onset of COVID-19, the importance of good HVAC systems cannot be overstated and updated technology creates health care access through telemedicine for people with limited mobility or transportation options.
Project Location: Bronx, NY
Amount Requested: $132,000
Recipient: Astor Services
Project Description: Funding will support expanding Astor’s Transitions program, which provides combined care management and direct care services to school children ages 4-18 years old. The goal is to collaborate with students and families to achieve a better educational understanding, positive opportunities, and graduate high school.
Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $351,000
Recipient: Goodwill Industries Of Western NY
Project Description: Goodskills Career Builder is a partner-driven career pipeline program to prepare people of color, people living in or near poverty, unemployed, those recently unemployed due to COVID-19, and underemployed populations for training programs and career opportunities and advancement in the Advanced Manufacturing, Sales and Services, and Tech industries in Western New York.
Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Virtual reality (VR) Simulation Equipment to Impact
Project Description: To ameliorate a shortage of 10,000 and more nurse and health professionals, colleges, universities and medical centers will need to educate their students with the best possible equipment. D’Youville requests funding for virtual reality equipment in its Black Box simulation center in the new Health Professions Hub located on the west side, a facility designed to build healthcare capacity and equity.
Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: University at Buffalo
Project Description: Funding requested will support the addition of 10 Teacher Residents of Color in UB’s existing Teacher Residency Program, and to launch the Summer Teacher and Leadership Academy to extend the work currently being done with teacher and leader residencies. Our current Teacher and Leader residency programs are able to prepare smaller numbers of educational professionals of color to be more effective in terms of student academic achievement and social-emotional development.
Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: YMCA Buffalo Niagara
Project Description: The Lockport Family YMCA seeks to build an outdoor aquatic center from which to deliver critical water safety and family recreational services for the residents of Lockport and its surrounding communities.
Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $437,000
Recipient: Explore & More
Project Description: Explore & More – The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Children’s Museum is requesting funding that would allow us to expand upon our free Au-Some programming for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families, further strengthening its impact and reaching more of this vulnerable population. Additionally, we would like to develop new curriculum and expand on our programs for children and the families with physical, intellectual, behavioral and emotional challenges. We will continue to partner with the University of Buffalo, Buffalo State College and Parent Network of WNY to utilize pre-existing resources to best serve our families.
Project Location: Buffalo, NY
Amount Requested: $902,000
Recipient: Community Action Organization of Western New York
Project Description: The Thrive: Highland Beech/Jordan Gardens Initiative is an innovative approach that will provide a minimum of 50 families with intensive wraparound services, including quality access to medical and dental services, nutrition support and education, care coordination, targeted youth services, behavioral health counseling, and financial counseling to residents in the Highland Beech Neighborhood, an extremely disinvested area of Niagara Falls.
Project Location: Canton, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: St. Lawrence County Workforce Restoration Fund
Project Description: Locally administered funs to assist the training of new and existing employees. It is becoming increasing difficult for employers to find workers, and skill gaps between available jobs and job seekers remain an obstacle.
Project Location: Carthage, NY
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Recipient: Carthage Area Hospital
Project Description: Carthage Area Hospital (CAH) will build a new medical center to consolidate multiple locations into one building, providing a one-stop shop for patients and improving accessibility through the integration of services, including the current 25 bed hospital, Family and Women’s Health Office, Behavioral health, Physical Therapy, Surgery, Orthopedics, podiatry, Urology, Neurology, Laboratory, Medical Imaging, and Emergency Room.
Project Location: Deer Park, NY
Amount Requested: $700,000
Recipient: United Way of Long Island
Project Description: United Way of Long Island is respectfully requesting Congressionally Directed Spending to support our Net Zero Energy Challenge. This project will allow us to install renewable energy at our Deer Park headquarters – a 31,000 sq. ft. building. Our headquarters is also home to the Ascent School for Autism, YouthBuild, VetsBuild, Girls Inc., and Wyandanch Homes & Property Development Corporation.
Project Location: Deer Park
Amount Requested: $700,000
Recipient: United Way of Long Island
Project Description: YouthBuild is a program of United Way of Long Island. Since 2010, YouthBuild has positively affected the lives of young adults, establishing itself as one of the most effective youth development programs in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. YouthBuild has had more than 400 graduates, with one-third moving into construction jobs, one third into other careers and one-third pursuing higher education.
Project Location: Dobbs Ferry, NY
Amount Requested: $850,000
Recipient: Children’s Village
Project Description: This funding will be used to increase access to programming for aged-out foster youth including: Use for Social and Emotional Programming, Use for Behavioral Health Programming, and Use for Peer to Peer Mentoring Programming. This funding will additionally be used for staffing, programming access, curriculum and supplies and technology upgrades.
Project Location: Elmhurst, NY
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Recipient: NYC H+H Elmhurst Reconstruction of the Labor and D
Project Description: We propose to renovate our Obstetrical Inpatient facilities in order to provide a more modern, safe, and comfortable family-centered environment, one which meets current privacy standards. Upgrades will include 5 new birthing suites; a new post-surgery area; and new post-paertum rooms.
Project Location: Forest Hills, NY
Amount Requested: $225,000
Recipient: Creation of Family Support Counselor Positions
Project Description: Queens Community House (QCH) operates three school-based programs in Corona and Elmhurst, Queens, which offer a variety of supports to help high school students who are at risk of dropping out to stay in school and on track to graduate. Through this project, QCH will hire a Family Support Counselor at each of the three schools to provide case management and service referrals to help students and their families face the new and deepened challenges they face around housing, child care, health, mental health, education, job loss, benefits, immigration status, and other critical needs that threaten household stability and thus the students’ ability to stay in school.
Project Location: Freeport, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: P.E.A.C.E. Afterschool Program Expansion
Project Description: The proposed Community Project Funding will support free after school care and a summer STEAM camp experience for 50 children ages 6-14 in the underserved community of 100 Terrace Avenue in Hempstead, NY . In addition, it will support program expansion to youth ages 15-21 for educational services and work experiences through our Project Restoration: Terrace Avenue partnership.
Project Location: Garden City, NY
Amount Requested: $58,000
Recipient: TCS Information Technology
Project Description: This funding would enable TCS to address employment inequity in New York State with the creation of a sustainable, customized IT Training & Certification Program tailored to meet the needs of individuals with varying disabilities to succeed in the growing IT sector where there is huge expressed demand. Program graduates will earn IT industry-rated credentials and competencies by industry-recognized leader CompTIA, preparing them with valued hard (technical) and equally important soft skills for long-term career success.
Project Location: Harris, NY
Amount Requested: $950,000
Recipient: The Center for Discovery
Project Description: This project will advance care for complex disabilities across New York State through comprehensive website development, telehealth equipment, and personnel to deliver services and develop content. Specific outcomes of this project include providing individual consultation and counseling services through the use of growing telehealth capabilities, including assessments and treatment plans; establishing an “Autism Infoline” for parents and caregivers to immediately access critical information and support; and establishing an accessible online platform for training and support of families, caregivers, educators, clinicians, and other stakeholders with the capacity for a variety of educational options, including toolkits, short videos and podcasts, webinars, and interactive training opportunities.
Project Location: Hawthorne, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: WMCHealth
Project Description: MidHudson Regional Hospital is seeking $1 million in Congressionally Directed Spending for Phase 1 renovations for WMCHealth’s Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health. Phase 1 renovations for the Center of Excellence will create modernized Patient Activity and Patient Support spaces, expand Detox Medical Rooms, add an additional exam room, as well as new patient ADA bathrooms.
Project Location: Herkimer, NY
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Recipient: Valley Health Services
Project Description: Funds will be used to construct a new, state-of-the-art, 160 bed skilled nursing facility with a 20 bed neurobehavioral unit and a 20 bed memory care unit in Herkimer County, NY to address a significant unmet need in upstate New York. Neurobehavioral care is unavailable anywhere in the Mohawk Valley and Central New York regions of the state and otherwise severely limited and underserved throughout New York State.
Project Location: Holbrook, NY
Amount Requested: $532,000
Recipient: Center for Community Engagement
Project Description: The Center for Community Engagement will be a new satellite location of Long Island Cares that will allow the agency to expand its work addressing the root causes of food insecurity. The new Center will house both new and existing programs of Long Island Cares as well as provide space where community stakeholders can come together to help people in need and work collaboratively to shape a coordinated response to the ever-evolving problem of hunger on Long Island.
Project Location: Hyde Park, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabi
Project Description: To better care for our dementia patients, Parker Jewish Institute is requesting $500,000 in FY 2022 community project funding from the HRSA Health Facilities Construction and Equipment Account to build a new Alzheimer’s and dementia memory care unit intended to provide a safe, structured environment with set routines to lower stress for people with Alzheimer’s or dementia, plus activities intended to stimulate memory, and possibly slow the disease’s progression. Funds will be used to redesign and refurbish an entire floor of Parker’s nursing home in order to create a new Alzheimer’s/dementia health unit.
Project Location: Ithaca, NY
Amount Requested: $486,000
Recipient: Finger Lakes ReUse, Inc.
Project Description: Finger Lakes ReUse has developed a model Community ReUse Center that transforms liabilities into assets. This project will support expansion of Finger Lakes ReUse’s programs in upstate New York, including a central processing and distribution facility, quality jobs and job training opportunities, and technical assistance to at least 5 additional communities to develop their own sustainable reuse operations, preserving valuable carbon and energy and turning would-be-waste into significant revenue generating opportunities.
Project Location: Jamaica, NY
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Recipient: Community Capacity Development Inc.
Project Description: The requested funding will go towards operational expenses for expanding our human justice work as well as our crisis management program at 696 Build Queensbridge.
Project Location: Jamaica, NY
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Recipient: LIFE Camp Inc
Project Description: After a year in a devastating pandemic, New York’s students are returning to a congregate learning environment. Re-integration will require a focus on their social emotional learning, conflict mediation and ensuring their school community is safe. The All in for Queens Peace Academy ensures students, teachers and staff have the resources they need for conflict free classrooms, restorative justice and conflict mediation.
Project Location: Jamaica, New York
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: NYC Health + Hospitals Queens
Project Description: This project will renovate an existing hospital space (retired swimming pool room) to build an Outpatient Dialysis Center. The Outpatient Dialysis Center would serve a significant medical need in the community given the high volume of patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Chronic Kidney Disease Level, and provide patients with access to chronic renal dialysis services, primarily due to the complications of diabetes, which is a significant healthcare concern in the community.
Project Location: Jamaica, NY
Amount Requested: $528,000
Recipient: York College
Project Description: We are proposing to offer six high-quality course offerings/trainings that are scalable and aligned with in-demand occupations and career pathways in New York City (NYC), as identified by leading employers and marketplace data. These offerings will equip low- and middle-skilled workers, as well as students, alumni with skills to advance in the workforce.
Project Location: Keuka Park, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Center for Health Innovation lab equipment funding
Project Description: Keuka College’s Center of Health Innovation requires funding for lab equipment that will help to increase the quantity and quality of health care workers (nurses and occupational therapists) in New York State.
Project Location: Lancaster, NY
Amount Requested: $69,000
Recipient: Depew Community Action Team
Project Description: The Depew Community Action Team will outfit a community laundry facility and technology access center with the appliances and fixtures necessary to serve the local community which is in a nationally registered blighted area of Depew, New York. The DCAT Team has partnered with the Educational Technology Foundation of WNY and local businesses in support of this effort to continue to provide these enhanced programs and services.
Project Location: Long Beach, NY
Amount Requested: $400,000
Recipient: City of Long Beach
Project Description: Under this project, the City of Long Beach is requesting $400,000 to create an Early Childhood Learning Center and improve services already offered at the Long Beach West End Community Center. Funding will help provide interactive, hands-on, innovative opportunities that will foster and encourage learning in special needs and low-income students and ensure preparedness for Kindergarten.
Project Location: Long Island City, NY
Amount Requested: $1,432,000
Recipient: Phoenix Houses of Long Island, Inc
Project Description: Phoenix House seeks to make capital repairs and improvements to the infrastructure of its existing treatment complex by replacing the roof, boilers, and HVAC system that have each reached the end of their life cycle (over 25+ years) as well as installing a modern commercial kitchen.
Project Location: Loudonville, NY
Amount Requested: $745,000
Recipient: Siena College
Project Description: Siena College faculty will expand their program to train area high school math and technology teachers in creating computer science classes at their schools, and will help teachers earn NYS’s new second certification in computer science by taking courses at Siena. Funds will also go toward purchase of a portable planetarium, equipment for Siena’s Urban Scholars community outreach program, and a physics laboratory lending library for local high schools.
Project Location: Manhasset, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Project Independence Aging Service Expansion
Project Description: The Town’s Department of Services for the Aging seeks resources to expand its aging services under Project Independence, the innovative aging-in-place program which provides health, mental health, caregiver support, social and recreational programs, senior transportation, food and nutrition, veterans support, and services for the 55,000+ seniors of this Town. Funding will be used for additional staff, and program outreach and coordination, to reach more seniors, and disabled seniors, in need through Project Independence.
Project Location: Monroe, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Monroe Senior Center
Project Description: The Town of Monroe will use funding to turn the Monroe Senior Center into a congregate meal center for Orange County and to ensure that the senior center has the capacity to continue serving as a designated shelter during natural disasters.
Project Location: Monsey, NY
Amount Requested: $1,087,000
Recipient: CMADC, Inc.
Project Description: CMADC, Inc. is applying for renovation of its facility in Rockland County to expand women’s services to include additional examination space for fertility, infertility, and breast cancer screening services for the low income, possibly uninsured minority, and individuals where English is not their primary language.
Project Location: Mount Vernon, NY
Amount Requested: $264,000
Recipient: City of Mount Vernon
Project Description: The City requests $264,000 to purchase one (1) firefighter rehabilitation apparatus to provide on-scene rehab as a preventive measure to reduce cardiac events which account for half of all line-of-duty deaths among firefighters. The apparatus will include shelter for respite in between rotating crews and from extreme heat or cold, a bathroom, racks to hang equipment, supplies to provide minor treatments, water, lighting, and other resources needed to keep firefighters safe when responding to emergencies.
Project Location: Mount Vernon
Amount Requested: $792,000
Recipient: Westchester Membership Fund for Aging
Project Description: This project will provide for operational expenses and to purchase equipment and services for five (5) new senior-center TIPS sites for remote telehealth monitoring and follow-up services for approximately 500 seniors.
Project Location: Mount Vernon
Amount Requested: $103,000
Recipient: Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center, Inc.
Project Description: MVNHC’s Behavioral Health Services for Homebound Elderly and Disabled will provide behavioral health assessments and psychotherapy to MVNHC’s homebound elderly and disabled residents living in NY-16.
Project Location: New Rochelle, NY
Amount Requested: $1,037,000
Recipient: New Rochelle YMCA
Project Description: The program is an educational program to fill the achievement gap exasperated by COVID-19. It is to bring tutoring, arts, dance and other enhancements to children of color and those economically disadvantaged.
Project Location: New York
Amount Requested: $738,000
Recipient: National Urban League-State of New York
Project Description: The National Urban League, Inc. (NUL) will perform a combination of the following: a) convening meetings with youth, employer partners, education/training partners, America Job Center, and other workforce ecosystem members; b) digital literacy training for staff; c) developing or acquiring technology to bolster remote engagement (apps, website, data tracking system, etc.
Project Location: New York
Amount Requested: $1,106,000
Recipient: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project Description: Research equipment for WCM infectious disease laboratory at the William Hale Harkness Building.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Asian American Community Recovery and Safety Services
Project Description: With funding, the project will address increased needs caused by the pandemic, including the growing economic and health needs of Asian American families, as well as the rise in anti-Asian violence facing Asian American women and seniors, by providing: a) expanded health outreach and education; b) enhanced health resources navigation and; c) neighborhood safety and belonging services and programs.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $561,000
Recipient: Stipends for undocumented and immigrant students
Project Description: The City University of New York (“CUNY”) near-peer mentors will raise their NYC Department of Education (“DOE”) mentees’ awareness of college options, improve their readiness to transition of college, gain valuable work experience, and improve CUNY’s capacity to support the success of immigrant students. NYC DOE mentees will gain support transitioning into and adjusting to high school, a role model navigating NYC as an immigrant, and intentional college and career planning support.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $293,000
Recipient: Substance Use Support Services for Black/African A
Project Description: The sharp increase in opioid overdoses over the past 12 months has been disproportionately borne by the Black/African American community. The Partnership to End Addiction seeks to customize and promote its free telehealth and mobile helpline services for the specific needs of Black/African American parents and caregivers in New York State whose child of any age is struggling with substance use.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $400,000
Recipient: Best Buddies
Project Description: The Best Buddies in New York Inclusion Project will create more inclusive school communities in New York by removing barriers to meaningful social interactions between students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their typical peers through one-to-one friendships, inclusive group activities, and leadership training. Funds will support 81 Best Buddies elementary, middle, and high school chapters which will involve a minimum of 1,800 students statewide.
Project Location: New York
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Project Description: Funds will provide technology, devices and technology training to low-income, legally blind participants of all ages, who have no other source of attaining equipment. The project will focus on purchasing technology and providing training for: youth, individuals with multiple disabilities and older adults who are legally blind.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $561,000
Recipient: New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
Project Description: Funding will be used for coordinator positions and related operational costs to oversee access to health, mental health, and other critical services for migrant children who have been released from federal custody to family or other sponsors in New York City. Operational costs will include development of outreach materials, interpretation/translation, and other outreach event costs.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: NYC DOE
Project Description: Requested funds for “Lift Every Voice NYC” will be used to provide Saturday music instruction to NYCDOE students (Grades 4-12 from all five boroughs) in the areas of songwriting, piano, guitar, and modern band and to offer small group coachings and music learning modules that support student musicians as they emerge from pandemic-related learning loss in music and the lack of music performance opportunities. Funding will be used to compensate teachers and professional performers/teaching artists for providing instruction and coachings to students as well as to purchase music supplies and equipment needed for instruction and rehearsal.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $700,000
Recipient: Institute of Community Living
Project Description: ICL is seeking $700,000 in operational expenses for our Family and Youth Peer Support Services. This program helps parents in high need communities in Brooklyn (Kings County) cope with the stress and isolation of parenting a child with significant social, emotional, developmental, substance use, and/ or behavioral health challenges.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $760,000
Recipient: God’s Love We Deliver
Project Description: God’s Love will use the requested funding to develop and implement a new Client Relationship Management (CRM) technology system. With a new CRM, God’s Love We Deliver will: reach more vulnerable people with medically tailored meals and nutrition education; reduce healthcare utilization and costs for a high use population; reduce the time from first client contact to first meal delivery; and obtain the evidence to support expanded healthcare reimbursement and private funding for the medically tailored meal intervention.
Project Location: New York
Amount Requested: $650,000
Recipient: New York University
Project Description: This request is to increase by 76% the number of students admitted to the ARISE program a free program providing STEM career pathways for academically motivated, diverse and underserved, current 10th- and 11th-grade New York City students.
Project Location: New York
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program
Project Description: Funding to Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program will go toward providing operational expenses for programs provided to youth in Central Harlem for youth from ages 7-18.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $134,000
Recipient: Columbia University
Project Description: This program is designed to both train local high school students in small business bookkeeping basics and help them launch their own bookkeeping businesses as well as respond to the urgent need of local small businesses for trained bookkeepers.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $505,000
Recipient: New Alternatives for Children, Inc.
Project Description: New Alternatives for Children (NAC), an innovative child welfare agency serving birth, foster, and adoptive families caring for children with complex medical, mental health and developmental needs, is requesting $505k to provide devices and headphones for tele-mental/ telehealth for children/families receiving services through NAC’s licensed Comprehensive Healthcare Center (CHC) and Children & Family Treatment & Support Services, which provide medical/ mental health services. The request includes funding for staff laptops to practice telehealth remotely, and a server to meet NAC’s technological needs.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: ArchCare
Project Description: Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center will gut renovate 27,500 square feet of its space to house a Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) that will serve up to 500 Manhattan seniors with integrated and coordinator medical care and social services. The project features a state-of-the-art clinic to deliver primary medical care and a reimagined senior center design.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $307,000
Recipient: New York University
Project Description: Our research program trains formerly incarcerated students who are completing their BA degrees at NYU in social science, and focuses our investigations on the relationship between incarceration and financial indebtedness, including the public health consequences of Covid-19 during and after prison.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $296,000
Recipient: Boys & Girls Club of Harlem
Project Description: Funds will support the implementation of a full service community schools model at five Harlem public schools. This model will provide critical supports to students and their families; such as access to emergency food, health care services and other income supports to promote family stability and foster student success.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: The City College of New York
Project Description: The requested funding will be used to support operational expenses of the project, as well as supplies and necessary equipment to set up the physical training center.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $81,000
Recipient: National Guild for Community Arts Education
Project Description: The National Guild for Community Arts Education (“Guild”) requests funding to support professional development, technical assistance, and field-building services for New York State’s nonprofit creative aging practitioners to ensure adults 55+ have access to high quality arts education, also known as Creative Aging. In addition, the Guild seeks to offer a regranting program to New York State nonprofit organizations that are providing or planning to launch Creative Aging services.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: NYCEDC
Project Description: Develop curriculum, provide accessible training to disadvantaged students for data analyst roles within healthcare industry.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $30,000
Recipient: Dance Project of Washington Heights
Project Description: Our community project proposes the development of a new Bilingual Music & Movement curriculum for children ages 0-4. We will offer 8 weekly classes in Music & Movement that will be taught in Spanish and English.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,100,000
Recipient: NYU Langone Health
Project Description: Funding for four (4) energy efficient ambulances will renew our 911 Emergency Services ambulance fleet serving NYC and Long Island. This project will provide direct benefit to the local communities we serve by decreasing air pollution while maintaining excellent care and service.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Helene Fuld College of Nursing
Project Description: The funding will be used for student scholarships. Like other Minority Serving Institutions and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Helene Fuld seeks to give students advantages to propel them past the barriers of discrimination and limited opportunities they face.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Vision Urbana, Inc.
Project Description: Requested funding will be used to underwrite the costs for a full time job developer, workforce training specialists, and for operational expenses related to the successful implementation and sustainability of the VU Older Adult Workforce Development & Entrepreneur Training Initiative.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $200,000
Recipient: GMHC
Project Description: GMHC proposes to increase the capacity of its mental health treatment services to address the increase in need for mental health services resulting from the COIVD-19 pandemic. The proposed project will support the addition of three staff (a full-time senior director of mental health and substance use services, a part-time psychiatrist, and a part-time psychiatric nurse practitioner) to meet this increased need remotely and later this year in-person when we anticipate our facility will reopen.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,460,000
Recipient: Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Project Description: Their project – TRANSFORM-NY – is a public mental health model that builds a safety net by bringing together hospitals, community-based organizations, faith-based institutions, and social service agencies and adds innovative technology based modes of mental health and substance use disorder care. They will develop the TRANSFORM-NY Training Center to employ a locally recruited workforce to deliver high-quality mental health care under the supervision of Columbia psychiatry specialists.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $725,000
Recipient: New York Institute of Technology
Project Description: New York Institute of Technology seeks partial support to renovate and upgrade 8,000 SF at a building at its LI campus and create five therapy and training labs to offer training in Nursing, Occupational and Physical Therapy, Home Healthcare, and Physician Assistant. Each lab space will have the training equipment needs and flexible spaces to accommodate state of the art teaching modalities necessary for each discipline to help the trainees excel at their jobs after graduation, and will benefit the health professionals of the future, ranging from degree recipients, to unemployed and veterans taking certification courses, and supporting up to 200 tuition-free trainees in the coming year as part of a funded NYS Department of Labor Workforce Development Initiative grant.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $2,615,000
Recipient: The Doe Fund
Project Description: The Doe Fund has partnered with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and local welding training programs to create a 10-week Welding Training Program targeting vulnerable populations (formerly homeless and/or incarcerated men) which will include three, five-hour-long classes each week. This training will introduce students to a wide array of welding and fabrication processes including: shop safety, print reading, MIG welding, ARC welding, gas welding and TIG welding, forming, Machinery (CNC) and finishing and will provide the students with the knowledge and skills necessary to pass the AWS certification test.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $370,000
Recipient: Mission Society of New York City
Project Description: The funding will be used for operational expenses, including staff salaries, program supplies, and client participation incentives.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $10,000
Recipient: Yeshiva University
Project Description: Yeshiva University proposes the renovation of Weissberg Commons, a multipurpose events space located on the ground floor of 2495 Amsterdam Avenue in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The project is anticipated to provide critical structural upgrades to the space and modernize audiovisual equipment utilized in both academic and public-facing events, extending the useful life of the space and providing an improved experience for visitors.
Project Location: New York, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Alliance NYC
Project Description: PATH to Jobs: Peer Alliance Towards Health & Jobs is a cost-effective, high impact investment of taxpayer funds in workforce innovation that will increase the number of low-income New Yorkers who obtain vocational training and job placement opportunities in health and social service agencies across New York, support them in their trajectory from dependence on public benefits to economic mobility and independence, and strengthen our healthcare system in addressing health disparities and access inequities exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Project Location: Niagara University, NY
Amount Requested: $998,000
Recipient: Niagara University
Project Description: Niagara University seeks federal funding of $998,500 to partially offset design costs (A/E fees) associated with a 45,000 sq. ft. building expansion to the B. Thomas Golisano Center for Integrated Sciences, a facility that was completed in 2013 with Gold LEED certification. Consistent with growth in enrollment and study in biology and chemistry, the proposed expansion would bring together faculty and students in mathematics, psychology and nursing disciplines, under one roof, in state of the art laboratories that will foster innovation, collaboration, and enhanced integrated research opportunities.
Project Location: Oceanside, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Mount Sinai South Nassau
Project Description: We are requesting funds to be used to for capital improvements to our South Nassau Mental Health Counseling Center (MHCC) located at 2277 Grand Avenue, Baldwin, NY (with over 50,000 patient visits annually) to allow for the co-location of a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home, South Nassau Family Medicine Center, an Article 28 facility currently located at 196 Merrick Road, Oceanside, NY. Funds will be used to renovate and convert the existing office space and will enable the integration of care and the crossover of visits so patients can receive primary care and behavioral health services in one location.
Project Location: Old Westbury, NY
Amount Requested: $3,900,000
Recipient: New York Institute of Technology
Project Description: To enhance its biomedical research capabilities NYIT requests an Abberior MINFLUX microscope for multi-color, 3D time-lapse imaging of live cells and tissues, and single-molecule imaging to better understand health and disease at the fundamental level of the molecular building blocks. There is no such microscope in the United States and acquiring it will place New York State as a leader in this field.
Project Location: Olean, NY
Amount Requested: $750,000
Recipient: YMCA of the Twin Tiers
Project Description: The YMCA will build an outdoor airnasium with an attached Spray and Play Park, a school-age child care center and building renovations to accomodate a healthy living senior center and youth technology center. The outdoor space will be used during all four seasons by freezing the airnasium floor to create an outdoor skating area.
Project Location: Orangeburg, NY
Amount Requested: $572,000
Recipient: Dominican College
Project Description: Dominican College will partner with Good Samaritan Hospital to increase health care access and improve health outcomes for underserved/at-risk populations while providing a real-world learning environment for undergraduate nursing students. The funding would be used to purchase a mobile health vehicle that would target and serve the underserved/at-risk population of all ages in underserved Rockland County communities.
Project Location: Oswego, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Oswego Health
Project Description: Oswego Health is seeking $500,000 to create a new radiographic and fluoroscopy room in Oswego Hospital which will improve care across the health system in Oswego County, New York. This investment would fund the purchase of new equipment and the construction costs associated with building out this room.
Project Location: Oswego, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Oswego Health
Project Description: Oswego Health is seeking $250,000 to renovate the lobby of the Oswego Hospital. The redesigned and renovated lobby will offer an updated, welcoming, and safe space as patients and visitors enter Oswego Health. It will improve patient registration procedures, hospital navigability, visitor experiences, and overall security.
Project Location: Oswego, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Oswego Health
Project Description: Oswego Health is seeking $1,000,000 to facilitate a co-location of primary care and ancillary services to a dilapidated site in the City of Oswego, New York State. This project is being undertaken in partnership with ConnextCare, a federally qualified healthcare center.
Project Location: Patchogue, NY
Amount Requested: $8,500,000
Recipient: Long Island Community Hospital
Project Description: Purchase New MRI and CT units and place in currently leased medical space.
Project Location: Patchogue, NY
Amount Requested: $5,500,000
Recipient: Long Island Community Hospital
Project Description: Expand Hemodialysis program from 24 to 36 chairs providing needed services in an underserved area.
Project Location: Patchogue, NY
Amount Requested: $24,500,000
Recipient: Long Island Community Hospital
Project Description: Our Knapp Cardiac Care Center opened with State of the Art Operating Rooms but they are not multifunctional. Create 2 Hybrid Operating Rooms with Interoperative Imaging
Project Location: Patchogue, NY
Amount Requested: $14,500,000
Recipient: Long Island Community Hospital
Project Description: Currently have 2 shelled clinical spaces for the expansion of our Cardiovascular Service Line. Great benefit to our community based on the cardiac needs.
Project Location: Patchogue, NY
Amount Requested: $60,000,000
Recipient: Long Island Community Hospital
Project Description: Nursing home no longer an asset that created jobs or economic stimulus to the county. Develop the 14 acre site/180,000 sq ft building to provide healthcare services to the community we serve.
Project Location: Patchogue, NY
Amount Requested: $4,500,000
Recipient: Long Island Community Hospital
Project Description: Purchase and install a surgical robot to provide surgical services in a safer environment with less complications and improved recovery time.
Project Location: Paul Smiths, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Paul Smith’s College
Project Description: The project improves and expands environmental water quality research and training opportunities at the Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute (PSC AWI) for postsecondary students and strengthens water quality protection efforts in northern New York. The project will acquire science laboratory equipment and associated technology for the PSC AWI environmental research and training center.
Project Location: Plattsburgh, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Plattsburgh-North Country Chamber of Commerce
Project Description: This is a workforce development and training initiative designed to assist employers through partial wage reimbursement with the cost of On the Job Training.
Project Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Nuvance Health
Project Description: Northern Dutchess Hospital of Nuvance Health respectfully requests $300,000 from the HRSA Health Facilities Construction and Equipment account to replace outdated patient safety and monitoring equipment in its Neugarten Birth Center.
Project Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Amount Requested: $1,203,000
Recipient: Family Services
Project Description: Family Services Inc., a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, has embarked on a $2M capital project in order to increase the safety, accessibility, and long-term sustainability of the Family Partnership Center (FPC), located in the heart of Poughkeepsie. The FPC houses Family Services’ human services programs as well as the services and programs of 20 related and complementary non-profits, many of which provide behavioral health services.
Project Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Amount Requested: $1,230,000
Recipient: DAY ONE Early Learning Community, Inc.
Project Description: This funding will support DAY ONE startup costs for our Teacher Apprenticeship Program, Parent & Community Programs, research and evaluation, and related operational expenses.
Project Location: Purchase
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Family Support Services of Westchester
Project Description: Family Services of Westchester (FSW) will use funding to support our existing restorative justice and veterans support programming. Specifically, funding will be used to cover program staff salaries, benefits, operational costs, and costs associated with assisting vulnerable community members.
Project Location: Potsdam, NY
Amount Requested: $10,000,000
Recipient: Clarkson University
Project Description: Clarkson will expand (45,000 sf) and renovate (110,000 sf) its Science Center as well as associated Center for Health Solutions & Entrepreneurial Science facilities to support increased research needs (research laboratories) and capabilities (laboratory equipment) essential to Clarkson’s Lewis School of Health Sciences and related medical programs.
Project Location: Queens, NY
Amount Requested: $1,727,000
Recipient: New York Edge, Inc.
Project Description: The funding would go first, to support ongoing, direct service activities that will reach 640 New York City youth in grades 9-12, representing all five boroughs, from low-resourced communities with enhanced opportunities for learning, supports for attending and completing high school, and programs to prepare them for career and college pathways after graduation and post-pandemic. Second, we seek operational support to cover costs related to supply and equipment purchases, recruitment and training of staff, increased capacity for outreach to families, student internships, and pre-payment for college visits.
Project Location: Queens, NY
Amount Requested: $1,128,000
Recipient: New York Edge, Inc.
Project Description: New York Edge (NYE) is requesting federal funding to jump start the design, development, licensing, and integration of an enterprise-wide technology system that is robust, user-friendly, efficient, and fully integrated for improved services to NYE program recipients, data management and analysis activities, and future growth and expansion to more children and youth in NYC and to neighboring counties, such as Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester.
Project Location: Queensbury, NY
Amount Requested: $203,000
Recipient: Warren County Employment & Training Administration
Project Description: Warren and Saratoga County partners will recruit, train, and open child care provider businesses to address the child care gaps that are are keeping parents out of the workforce and impacting businesses and communities in Warren and Saratoga Counties.
Project Location: Rhinebeck, NY
Amount Requested: $150,000
Recipient: Astor Services for Children & Families
Project Description: The Astor Court Involved Youth (CIY) Program provides behavioral health services for Bronx county youth (12-18) who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system, as an alternative to deeper involvement in the justice system and to reduce recidivism. We are seeking to expand this five year old successful program by doubling its size from 1.5 clinical social workers to 3 social workers, and are requesting funding for salaries and personnel costs.
Project Location: Rhinebeck, NY
Amount Requested: $117,000
Recipient: Astor Services for Children & Families
Project Description: Rural Health Care Worker Liaison position will improve health care in rural areas by managing all aspects of communication with hospitals when enrolled children are in need of emergency medical and mental health care services. This improved collaboration from referral to post-discharge will support families and Astor staff when children require hospital level medical or mental health care through the local Emergency Department (ED) or inpatient hospitalization.
Project Location: Rhinebeck, NY
Amount Requested: $244,000
Recipient: Astor Services for Children & Families
Project Description: The project is to fund a team of experts to examine possible evidence-based treatment models for substance abuse for adolescents and young adults (ages 13-26). The team of experts will choose the model that is most effective for this population, improves access to care, and is a high quality approach that is culturally sensitive. Once identified, Astor’s training department will conduct trainings (clinical, non-clinical, paraprofessional, and peer) to implement the model.
Project Location: Rhinebeck, NY
Amount Requested: $54,000
Recipient: Astor Services for Children & Families
Project Description: Suicide Prevention Training for Hudson Valley Schools.
Project Location: Rhinebeck, NY
Amount Requested: $196,000
Recipient: Astor Services for Children & Families
Project Description: Providing Bilingual Parent Advocacy for vulnerable low-income families in the Hudson Valley.
Project Location: Richmond Hill, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: Emergency Department Modernization Project – MRI R
Project Description: This project will cover the cost of constructing space to accommodate two new state-of-the-art MRI machines: one to replace the ED’s aged 1.5T magnet, and another new 3T magnet to help address current access issues.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $175,000
Recipient: Rochester Museum & Science Center
Project Description: Design and fabrication of the new Water Worlds exhibition at the RMSC with a grand opening in the 4th quarter of 2022. Currently in the design phase, Water Worlds will inspire visitors to explore local water resources at the intersection of science, culture, and technology and tackle important issues facing the community including climate change, water quality, and environmental justice. Visitors will engage with Lake Ontario through hands-on, multi-sensory exhibits in the RMSC’s signature style that combines interactives with authentic collections objects.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $374,000
Recipient: Trillium Health Primary Care Expansion Project
Project Description: Trillium Health is requesting funding for capital improvements to increase primary care services to include an on-site urgent care center, pediatrics and sexual health services at its Monroe Avenue Article 28 clinic.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: University of Rochester Healthcare Career Pathways
Project Description: The University of Rochester’s (UR) Healthcare Careers Pathway Program (HCPP) will help 50 high school students (ages 16-19) in the City of Rochester-the majority of whom are living in poverty-gain relevant work experience, complete training/education programs, and attain a promotion into a higher-wage job along their desired healthcare career path. With $300,000 in federal funding to help with the cost of staff and other operational expenses, this 1-year pilot program will focus on mentorship and professional development to increase graduation rates, post-high school training, and education completion so that participants are hired into living-wage jobs.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $3,890,000
Recipient: Capital Improvements to Historic Rochester Campus
Project Description: Congressional funds will be used for critical Capital Improvements to a historic, 6.27-acre educational campus located in Rochester, New York’s Maplewood Neighborhood, serving 3,000 children and their family members annually. Specifically, the funded project will address safety and energy efficiency of: 118,000 square foot school building (1001 Lake Avenue, built 1915), which requires 626 windows and 313 steel lintels 23,000 square foot former convent (16 Lakeview Park, built 1958), which requires 174 replacement windows, roof replacement, and boiler replacement
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $20,000,000
Recipient: New Mary Cariola Center for Rochester & Surrou
Project Description: For program efficiencies and improvements, as well as opportunities to grow and accommodate more students with complex disabilities, we are seeking funding to support the construction of new school facilities that will allow us to consolidate our three (3) leased campuses onto a single campus that we own.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $20,000
Recipient: Open Door Mission
Project Description: Open Door Mission is requesting funding of $20,000 to create an Outpatient component of the Mission’s successful faith-based recovery program; adding a PT Case Manager (20 hours per week) to serve up to 48 individuals in the Program in the 12-month time frame. The funds will help to address the addiction, homelessness, and joblessness that is the basis of our Mission work.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $60,000
Recipient: Refugees Helping Refugees
Project Description: Refugee Health Pathways is a health education and health promotion program for refugees in Monroe County, NY specifically addressing COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy in difficult-to-reach populations. Program activities include small groups health classes, health education one-on-one, community outreach, advocacy, and providing technical assistance to area providers looking to serve refugee populations.
Project Location: Rochester
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: The Strong
Project Description: The Strong requests funding for the implementation of its Digital Worlds exhibit gallery-the centerpiece and primary tourism draw of the museum’s 90,000-SF expansion and surrounding Neighborhood of Play. Digital Worlds will tell the history of video games.
Project Location: Rochester
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: The Strong
Project Description: The Strong requests funding to support the steel infrastructure of the new building which will provide the facilities needed to scale the museum’s play-based exhibits, educational programs, and community access initiatives that will benefit hundreds of thousands of children and families in our region and beyond.
Project Location: Rochester
Amount Requested: $400,000
Recipient: Center for Preforming Arts
Project Description: The Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance, a 501c3 nonprofit in Rochester, NY, requests this as a component of the $3.3 million required to complete the Center for Performing and Visual Arts, transforming our National Register of Historic Places listed landmark building into a community centerpiece offering free, world-class performance and educational programming to Rochester’s historically underserved, inner-city communities of color.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: St. John Fisher College, Wegmans School of Nursing
Project Description: St. John Fisher College requests federal funds from the Department of Education (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education -FIPSE) through the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee to help establish an Inter-Professional Education (IPE) Simulation Center, a collaborative laboratory space designed to mirror team-based healthcare environments where nursing and pharmacy students will engage in collective learning and skill development. A FIPSE grant of $300,000 will support the purchase of simulation equipment and minor modifications (to improve technology) for existing space that will be transformed into a new IPE Simulation Center that will prepare the next generation of healthcare workers who will serve the Greater Rochester community, New York State, and beyond.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: The Center for Youth Services, Inc.
Project Description: The funds in this request will provide operational support to the Center for Youth’s Crisis Nursery and enhance the capacity of the following positions; Family Resource Navigator – a position instrumental in assisting families with crisis needs, identifying and connecting to additional supports and providing aftercare services, and childcare staffing – the nurseries operate 24 hours a day, 7days a week and staffing ensures that there is availability when parents need and the staff are trained to provide socio-emotional support during times that may be upsetting or challenging to children being separated from their families.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Rochester Regional Health
Project Description: RGH respectfully requests funds in the amount of $500,000 on behalf of our College of Health Careers, a recently-launched nursing education school housing an LPN to ADN (Associate Degree in Nursing) program. Specifically, funds will be used to offset tuition costs for low-income students, provide wrap-around services such as counseling and tutoring, and help address emergency needs such as childcare and transportation among the student body.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York
Project Description: The requested funding will be used to complete construction of the JA Discovery Center, a scientifically-proven, state-of-the-art learning lab, and the first in NY State, to be located at Kodak Center in Eastman Business Park.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $38,000
Recipient: Center for Disability Rights
Project Description: Operational expenses for organizing and hosting four regional conferences to strategize how to create a statewide network to support and serve the DeafBlind community and to help reduce the community’s disenfranchisement, isolation, and institutionalization.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $450,000
Recipient: Education Success Foundation
Project Description: Congressional funds will facilitate evidence-based prevention services for 2,400 Rochester, NY, children and their family members during FY 2022. EnCompass targets underserved families with whole-child, pre-kindergarten through post-high school educational programs, and wraparound service-layering, including: academic intervention, wraparound supports (health, food literacy, housing, advocacy, and transportation), college and career readiness, job training and placement, and community resources connection.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $175,000
Recipient: Hillside Children’s Center
Project Description: Hillside’s Technology Roadmap is a multi-year initiative to improve the critical digital infrastructure necessary for flexible, hybrid delivery of critical behavioral health services across upstate New York communities. Funding will be used to offset the cost of (1) Clinician Devices and Electronic Signature Systems, and (2) Network Infrastructure.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
Recipient: University of Rochester
Project Description: Wilmot Cancer Institute (WCI), Upstate New York’s largest cancer center, seeks funding for the purchase of specialized instrumentation equipment to establish a Metabolism Shared Research Core that will enable the quantification of metabolic activity in cancer cells and support WCI’s effort to recapture National Cancer Institute designation from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This research equipment would support the development of novel anti-cancer therapeutics, identify new biomarkers for diagnosing cancer at the earliest possible stage when treatment regimens are at their most effective, and provide important early information concerning the success or failure of a treatment regimen, thereby informing treatment options moving forward.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Nazareth College
Project Description: The extension of WiFi connectivity to outdoor zones on the Nazareth College campus improves the quality of the educational experience for Nazareth College students and work of faculty and staff and provides additional connectivity for community visitors. Nazareth’s outdoor WiFi will eliminate a geographical restriction to a consistent, high quality connected experience.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: St. John Fisher College
Project Description: St. John Fisher College requests federal funds from the Department of Education (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education -FIPSE) through the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee to help establish an Inter-Professional Education (IPE) Simulation Center, a collaborative laboratory space designed to mirror team-based healthcare environments where nursing and pharmacy students will engage in collective learning and skill development. A FIPSE grant of $300,000 will support the purchase of simulation equipment and minor technological upgrades for existing space that will be transformed into a new IPE Simulation Center that will prepare the next generation of healthcare workers who will serve the Greater Rochester community, New York State, and beyond.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $500,000
Recipient: Nazareth College
Project Description: Funds requested to repurpose and make technology upgrades to existing academic spaces to house the collaborative innovation lab, instructional space, and faculty offices of Nazareth College’s Institute for Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Society (ITAS), a pioneering initiative in higher education to develop future TAS leaders. The Institute provides students with skills relevant to the emerging tech economy with an emphasis on ethics, interdisciplinarity, innovation, and employability.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $575,000
Recipient: Rochester Regional Health -RRH Critical Care Dialysis project
Project Description: Funding will be used to provide dialysis treatment for complex, high-needs patients who are on ventilators or trachs. Hospitals have limited options to serve this population, so providing care at Unity Living Center at St. Mary’s will allow patients to receive the care they need, while undergoing in-patient respiratory care.
Project Location: Rochester, NY
Amount Requested: $561,000
Recipient: Baden Street Settlement of Rochester, Inc.
Project Description: This funding will be used for significant capital improvements to Baden Street Settlement. The infrastructure of Baden Street has fallen into serious disrepair.
Project Location: Saranac Lake, NY
Amount Requested: $74,000
Recipient: Adirondack North Country Association
Project Description: ANCA will use CDS funding to deliver technical support services to help the employees of small businesses across our rural region who are facing a transition to new ownership or new business models in the wake of COVID- 19. ANCA will expand current organizational programming and initiatives to partner with local colleges and experts to provide training and one-on-one consultation to identified businesses undergoing a transition to new ownership or to a new business model, ensuring that the existing workforce has the financial management and leadership skills to engage in the implementation of succession and resilience plans.
Project Location: Snyder, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: Bell X-1 replica for Niagara Aerospace Museum
Project Description: To purchase a full-scale replica of the Bell X-1, the aircraft, built in Niagara Falls that Chuck Yeager flew to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. The replica will be the centerpiece of the museum’s exhibits and the highlight of events in 2022 commemorating the 75th anniversary of the record-breaking flight.
Project Location: Spring Valley, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: Refuah Health Center, Inc.
Project Description: This project involves the construction of a permanent, state-of-the art outpatient health care facility in South Fallsburg to help address the significant and dire healthcare needs faced by Sullivan County. The facility will expand and enhance RefuahHealth’s ability to provide high-quality, integrated, and affordable care to the residents of Sullivan County.
Project Location: Spring Valley
Amount Requested: $2,500,000
Recipient: Refuah Health Center – Women’s Health Center of Ex
Project Description: The Center of Excellence for Women’s Health at Refuah Health Center will be a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the provision of accessible, high-quality, affordable healthcare for women, with a particular focus on infertility services for an underserved population.
Project Location: Staten Island, NY
Amount Requested: $250,000
Recipient: Common Threads
Project Description: Federal funding in fiscal year 2022 will cover Common Threads’ direct costs of implementing seven distinct nutrition and culinary educational programs for under-resourced New York families. These costs associated with our evaluated and culturally relevant programs include: program management, digital education resources, cooking supplies, food for lessons, and promotional materials.
Project Location: Staten Island, NY
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Recipient: Staten Island University Hospital
Project Description: Staten Island University Hospital is seeking $2,000,000 for their new “Women and Newborn Center,” which aims to expand and modernize our capabilities for more at risk newborns to receive transformative care. The funds would be used for the purchase of equipment for the new facility and construction costs of the facility.
Project Location: Stony Brook, NY
Amount Requested: $9,000,000
Recipient: Stony Brook University
Project Description: The funds will be used for capital improvement, facilities, and equipment for the Innovation Gateway-a regional hub serving Long Island innovators to expand technology growth and workforce development. This will include renovating an existing 24,000 sq ft space made available for this project in the heart of the Stony Brook University campus and securing the core equipment infrastructure, including fabrication equipment, meeting/innovation spaces, and educational facilities.
Project Location: Stony Brook, NY
Amount Requested: $10,000,000
Recipient: Stony Brook University
Project Description: Funds to establish the operational headquarters of LINCATS including the core personnel, supplies and equipment; services to support multi-disciplinary research including an electronic infrastructure to collect/monitor metrics; education and training of students, postdocs, faculty, clinicians and other health care professionals; pilot research grants to seed new collaborations between local partner institutions; extensive community outreach to support health care and health equity efforts; construction of inpatient research units at SB Hospital for the purpose of clinical and translational research.
Project Location: Sunnyside, NY
Amount Requested: $100,000
Recipient: Sunnyside Community Services
Project Description: Sunnyside Community Services (SCS) requests funds to support operational costs of the Safety, Learning, and College Access Program, which will support 70 young people on their pathway towards academic success and self-efficacy as youth emerge from the social isolation and learning loss of the covid-19 pandemic. Programming will take place at the Woodside Houses Cornerstone community center, a public housing-based community center in Woodside, Queens.
Project Location: Sunnyside, NY
Amount Requested: $175,000
Recipient: Sunnyside Community Services
Project Description: Sunnyside Community Services (SCS) requests funds to support operational costs of our free Home Health Aide (HHA) Training Program’s classes in English and Spanish. This is an innovative workforce development program that helps un/underemployed individuals, primarily immigrant women, enter a career ladder in the healthcare field with a direct pipeline to employment in our two affiliated home care agencies.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Le Moyne College
Project Description: This project will modernize, expand, and equip facilities that provide needed mental health, health, and substance abuse services, including prevention, education, awareness, and wellness services for students while also providing access to wellness services for neighborhood residents.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $844,000
Recipient: SUNY Upstate Medical University
Project Description: Using a combination of self-funding, contributions from local businesses and donors, and federal funds, SUNY Upstate Medical University will purchase the equipment and supporting material to implement a Smart Hospital and Remote Health Care initiative, whereby thousands of Upstate patients’ individual health markers will be monitored real-time and at home via wearable, HIPAA-compliant medical technology.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $977,000
Recipient: SUNY Upstate Autism Spectrum Disorder Treatment Ce
Project Description: Federal funds will be used to help defray the costs of renovating, staffing and equipping vacant clinical office space to develop a novel service line providing drop-in care for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and for families who are experiencing ASD crisis (e.g., aggressive bursts, suicidal ideation). Such a dedicated, comprehensive facility is not currently available anywhere in Central New York — nor almost anywhere in the US — and would provide near-immediate crisis intervention, on-call service, and access to specialized, in-person care within 24 hours for triage to other care programs at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $898,000
Recipient: SUNY Upstate Multidisciplinary Lyme and Tick-Borne
Project Description: With federal support, we will be able to renovate an existing office space and convert it into a multidisciplinary clinical care facility devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, management and research of complicated tick-borne diseases (TBDs) including Lyme disease.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: City of Syracuse
Project Description: This funding is for work on the $2 billion-plus Interstate 81 Viaduct project is approaching. This project will create the Syracuse Build Urban Opportunity Youth Work Readiness Program to help young people ages 16-24 who are not enrolled in school or participating in the formal labor market get support and training to start careers in construction.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $1,950,000
Recipient: Sedgwick Heights
Project Description: Sedgwick Heights is the largest provider of Assisted Living Beds in the Central New York Region. The components of this proposal will create an improved, safer environment for residents and staff by modernizing the facility’s infrastructure, building systems, and living spaces.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $1,100,000
Recipient: SUNY Upstate Suicide Prevention Center
Project Description: Federal funds would be used to help secure the additional space, providers, training and programming needed to bring all of Upstate’s existing suicide prevention initiatives into a fully-functioning and comprehensive center, allowing us to serve an additional 600 at-risk youth and young adults each year from at least 50 school districts across Central New York.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $793,000
Recipient: MACNY
Project Description: The “IDEAS That Fuel the Growth of High Tech Jobs in NYS” Program will provide training for the marginally employed, unemployed and those workers displaced by the pandemic.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: Crouse Health Foundation Inc
Project Description: Crouse Health is seeking $1.5 million to purchase 100 new, state-of-the-art hospital beds to provide better care for patients. These beds would replace older beds that the hospital can no longer source parts for and expand capacity to accommodate projected patient volumes in the future.
Project Location: Syracuse, NY
Amount Requested: $1,750,000
Recipient: Crouse Health Foundation Inc
Project Description: Crouse Health is seeking $1,750,000 to support the renovation of a wing of the hospital into 11 Negative Pressure Isolation Rooms. These new rooms will prevent the spread of airborne diseases, such as Covid-19, tuberculosis, measles and others, and protect the health of patients and staff at the hospital.
Project Location: Tarrytown, NY
Amount Requested: $96,000
Recipient: The Center for Aging in Place
Project Description: Today the Center for Aging in Place seeks funding for a one-year Pandemic Recovery Plan project that would allow it to retain a part-time (0.5 FTE) contract staff planner who can work with the volunteer board of directors to review its accomplishments in providing pandemic-connected services for older adults, review organizational status and conduct an operational gap analysis, restart systems that had lapsed or were reduced because of the pandemic, review needs to supplement recruitment for a health advocacy training program that has suffered because of pandemic disruptions, and help plan for board development and diversification needs and opportunities; and to assess analogous needs that its seven affiliated aging-in-place, local organizations might also be experiencing.
Project Location: Troy, NY
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Recipient: Hudson Valley Community College
Project Description: Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) is undertaking a workforce development project which will update and increase its current educational footprint in Upstate New York by increasing the enrollment capacity of education and skills training in high-demand health science, STEM and skilled trades programs. HVCC is seeking Congressional Funding to acquire updated technology, state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and classroom furniture.
Project Location: Troy, NY
Amount Requested: $834,000
Recipient: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Project Description: This proposed request is to establish a cutting-edge, high-throughput and high-volume Flow Cytometry Facility in the NYS Capital Region to assist public-private partnerships and work force development areas for biopharmaceuticals, regenerative medicine and infectious disease research. Requested funds will be used exclusively to purchase the equipment that, due to its high-volume and high-throughput capabilities required for industry research and workforce training component, is not a funding priority by federal agencies (such as NIH, NSF) under traditional research infrastructure.
Project Location: Troy, NY
Amount Requested: $600,000
Recipient: Hudson Valley Community College
Project Description: Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) is undertaking the creation of a new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved Aviation Maintenance Technician School (AMTS) to be located at Albany International Airport, in Albany County, New York.
Project Location: Wantagh, NY
Amount Requested: $155,000
Recipient: Autism FYI Organization
Project Description: With a fiscal investment from New York, AFYI will engage and train various law enforcement entities, community leader leaders, medical staff, community businesses and first responders for up to fifty trainings to better equip them with the tools and resources to interact with adults on the Autism Spectrum.
Project Location: Watertown, NY
Amount Requested: $115,000
Recipient: Bright Beginnings The ARC Jefferson-Saint Lawrence
Project Description: The funds will be utilized for furniture, material and supplies, storage, literacy libraries, and a equity and diversity coordinator to enhance the purposeful play curriculum framework to include equity, diversity, and inclusion. Materials, supplies, and literacy libraries will include multicultural and diverse opportunities to include introduction and development of diverse vocabulary and cultures.
Project Location: Watertown, NY
Amount Requested: $346,000
Recipient: JRC Foundation/The Arc Jefferson-St. Lawrence
Project Description: The Arc Jefferson – St. Lawrence will utilize funding to update several of its residential facilities in the community, to address vital preservation needs, increase accessibility for those with special needs, update critical life safety measures, and enhance quality of life for its residents with disabilities, in both Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties.
Project Location: Westbury, NY
Amount Requested: $3,500,000
Recipient: Long Island FQHC, Inc.
Project Description: The Long Island FQHC, Inc. has rented a new facility and is seeking funding to help complete the renovation of a new Health Center in the Village of Hempstead, in Nassau County, NY. Funds to be used to help build out 26 exam rooms for services including Dental, Optometry, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, Adult Medicine, Podiatry, other specialists, Behavioral Health, Nutrition, Radiology, Laboratory, Care Management and training space.
Project Location: Westchester
Amount Requested: $539,000
Recipient: Expanding Geriatrics Career Development (GCD) to W
Project Description: Expand Geriatrics Career Development (GCD) to Westchester County, supporting 30 Young Adults (ages 18-24) who are not in school and unemployed to complete GCD training with 100% of available graduates hired by The New Jewish Home post-program and placed into living wage jobs, which will enable us to incubate the model and position it for regional and national expansion.
Project Location: White Plains, NY
Amount Requested: $11,110,000
Recipient: White Plains Hospital Center
Project Description: This proposal is for construction and equipment for the new Pediatric Center. This unit would enhance access to comprehensive pediatric services close to home and represents a unique and innovative model of care supporting children and their families. This new Pediatric Center would be a welcome addition to Westchester County, improving access to health care and enhancing the attraction to living in the area.
Project Location: White Plains
Amount Requested: $150,000
Recipient: Burke Neurological Institute
Project Description: Funding will purchase telehealth equipment for long-term home use, for those with limited mobility and who suffer from certain neurological disabilities.
Project Location: White Plains, NY
Amount Requested: $653,000
Recipient: Burke Neurological Institute
Project Description: This funding will purchase specialized neurorehabilitative gym equipment, to promote and study wellness outcomes in those with certain chronic neurological disabilities and mobility issues, which prevent them from either using or accessing traditional gyms.
Project Location: White Plains, NY
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Recipient: Westchester County Office of the County Executive
Project Description: Funding request is for a dual-language entrepreneurial training and incubation program; acquisition of laptop computers and internet access for a cohort of 100 Spanish-speaking aspiring business owners.
Project Location: White Plains, NY
Amount Requested: $300,000
Recipient: ArtsWestchester, Inc.
Project Description: Requested funding will provide operational and program expenses, artist fees, supplies and equipment for ArtsWestchester’s ArtsMobile program serving the Westchester County youth with free art-making opportunities providing equitable access to arts education, creative expression and the healing of our community after the current pandemic. The ArtsMobile afterschool program delivers engaging and empowering arts experiences to Westchester’s most underserved youth and their families, bringing the arts to where they live and gather.
Project Location: Woodside, NY
Amount Requested: $55,000
Recipient: Immigrant Education & Workforce Development: Immigrant Education & Workforce Development: Preparing for the New Future
Project Description: This initiative will expand education and workforce development services for low income immigrant New Yorkers from our Woodside, Queens headquarters, with a particular focus on preparing them, through free tax preparation and other services, for a path to citizenship and meaningful employment.
Project Location: Yonkers, NY
Amount Requested: $585,000
Recipient: St. John’s Riverside Hospital
Project Description: St. John’s Riverside Hospital seeks funding to support a community-driven effort to address racial inequities in health outcomes in our Maternity Department by conducting an assessment of current institutional policies and procedures, obtaining technical assistance in the development of anti-racist policies and procedures, developing and implementing a patient experience measure designed to uplift community voice, and providing an ongoing analysis of obstetric outcomes stratified by race to assess the impact of our work. Partnering with a coalition of local Black women experts in the field, they will train 200 hospital staff by providing a baseline assessment of implicit bias within the hospital staff using the premier, cross-culturally valid and reliable instrument, 10 training workshops plus necessary one-to-one sessions, 3 experiential learning laboratories with experts allowing providers to engage in scenario planning, emergency crisis planning and role playing with doulas and midwives, 12 racial equity and inclusion round tables for the maternity staff, 3 grand rounds, and 10-12 listening sessions and affinity groups.
Project Location: Yonkers, NY
Amount Requested: $230,000
Recipient: Yonkers Partners in Education
Project Description: Requested funding will be used to support partial personnel and operational expenses for the YPIE Majors Program, a transformational after school career pathways program providing 500 underserved Yonkers high school students unique career experiences, embedded in much needed academic instruction and social and emotional learning. In addition to supporting partial salaries for instructors, who both create curriculum and teach classes, the requested funding will be used for competition and credentialing fees so students are able to acquire external feedback and validation for their participation in the Majors Program.