NYCT AR2009_final.pdf - The New York Community Trust

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Taproot
Foundation, to help nonprofits
attract, manage, and retain volunteers.
EDUCATION, ARTS, AND
HUMAN JUSTICE
Education
National Economic and Social Rights
Initiative, to lead a pilot program that is
developing tactics for conflict intervention
and resolution in City schools.
Center for Human Environments, CUNY,
to help high school students plan for college
and other opportunities through the creation of
Student Success Centers. 4
Arts and Culture
Fourth Arts Block, to promote the arts groups
in the East Fourth Street Cultural District in
Manhattan through coordinated discounts, centralized
ticketing, and free street performances. 8)
Queens Council on the Arts, to provide
business training for Queens arts groups
and artists.
Historic Preservation
Historic House Trust, to help 23 historic
houses in New York improve and coordinate
their educational programs.
New York Landmarks Conservancy, for
emergency repairs of historic buildings
owned by City nonprofits. 10
Human Justice
Immigration Equality, to help gay
people and people with AIDS apply for
asylum and become legal residents.
Sanctuary for Families, to provide legal
help to poor and immigrant victims of
domestic violence.
HEALTH AND PEOPLE WITH
SPECIAL NEEDS
Health Services
Public Health Solutions, to expand
services and strengthen the City’s largest
provider of reproductive health care
services for low-income teenage girls and
young women. 9
SHARE: Self-Help for Women with
Breast or Ovarian Cancer, to expand
an ovarian cancer education and support
program.
Health Systems and Policy
Mount Sinai Medical School, to reduce
the costs of palliative care and increase
patient and staff satisfaction in municipal
hospitals through a study of similar
programs around the country.
Primary Care Development Corporation,
to help community health centers
compete for federal stimulus money. 7
Biomedical Research
The Public Health Research Institute
at New Jersey Medical School, to study
a drug-resistant bacterium in four City
hospitals.
Blindness and Visual Disabilities
NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation,
to expand a treatment program for
diabetics who risk vision loss.
VISIONS/Services for the Blind and
Visually Impaired, for a program that
trains youth to help blind elders. 6
Children and Youth with Disabilities
New Alternatives for Children, to consolidate
health and mental health clinics
at an agency that serves seriously ill and
disabled children in foster care.