I am very pleased to announce that this year's State budget included $2 million in Senate grants that I secured for volunteer agencies, schools and community organizations from my district and Queens County. From emergency services to youth organizations to senior citizens groups, all of the grant recipients help preserve and improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods. The grants include:Police, Fire and Emergency Services* Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corp.* Glendale Civilian Observation Patrol* Glendale Volunteer Ambulance Corps* Middle Village Ambulance Corps* Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corp.* Volunteer Rescue Squad Information Dissemination Foundation* West Hamilton Beach Volunteers* Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corp.Senior Citizens* Forest Park Senior Citizens Center* Glenridge Senior Citizen Multiservice & Advisory Center* Medicare Rights Center* Middle Village Older Adults Center* Ridgewood Seniors Community Corporation* Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council* Ridgewood Older Adults Center* St. Margaret’s Senior Citizens Club* Selfhelp Community Services, Maspeth Senior Center* Southwest Queens Senior ServicesVeterans Groups* Allied Veteran's Memorial Committee of Greater Ridgewood* American Legion Brewery-Keenan-Heiser Post 1815* American Legion Continental Post 1424* American Legion Corp. J. Ruoff-Norelli Hargreaves Post 632* American Legion Woodhaven Post No. 118* Borden Avenue Veterans Residence* Catholic War Veterans Nativity BVM Post 369* Catholic War Veterans St. Louis De Monfort Post 1721* Catholic War Veterans St. Louis De Monfort Post 1721 Womens' Auxiliary* Joseph Garity Post No. 562* St. Margaret’s Post No. 1172 CWV* Sgt. Edward R. Miller VFW Post 7336* Sons of Union Vets of the Civil War* VFW Haspel Staab Post No. 551* Veterans Volunteer Alliance at St. Albans* Vietnam Veterans of America NYS Council* Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32Libraries* Friends of the Maspeth Public Library* Ozone Park Library * Queensborough Public LibraryArts, Sciences, Culture & Museums* Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations* Alliance of Queens Artists* Brain Trauma Foundation* Children's Orchestra Society* FIERI International* Garabaldi Meucci Museum* Golden Center for the Performing Arts at Queens College* Italian American Museum* Latin American Cultural Center of Queens* Lower East Side Tenement Museum* Midori & Friends children’s music program* Musica Reginae Productions Ltd.* New York Hall of Science* New York Theater Institute Residency Program* Oratorio Society of Queens* Queens Botanical Gardens* Queens Council on the Arts * Queens Festival Band* Queens Museum of Art * Queens Symphony Orchestra* Queens Theater in the Park* Rockaway Artists Alliance* Sacred Music Choral of Richmond Hill* Teen Drama ClubCommunity Groups* All Faiths Cemetery* American Cancer Society, Rego Park branch* Asian American Consulting Services* Association for the Help of Retarded Children* Bella Italia Mia, Inc.* Bobbi & the Strays* Boy Scouts of America, Sea Scouts Ship 195* Brooklyn Diocese Drug Abuse Prevention Program brochures* Catalpa Avenue YMCA* City of New York Parks & Recreation Glendale playground* City of New York Parks & Recreation Kew Gardens "Wake Up New York" program* City Parks Foundation* Community Advocacy Center* Cooley's Anemia Foundation* Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of Greater New York* Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, Long Island Chapter* Federazione Italo-Americana di Brooklyn and Queens* Forest Hills Football League* Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery* Friends of Strays, Inc.* Greater Ridgewood Restoration* Greater Ridgewood Youth Council* Greater Woodhaven Development Corp.* Howard Beach Columbus Day Foundation* I Love Animals, Inc.* Italian Charities of America* Institute of Chinese Culture and Arts* Jamaica Chamber of Commerce* Jewish Community Council of Kew Gardens & Richmond Hill* Juniper Park Conservancy* Kiwanis International* Little Flower Children’s Services* Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade Org.* Locust Grove Civic Association* Long Island Citizens for Community Values* Maspeth Town Hall* Maspeth Town Hall Community Center* Maternity & Early Childhood Foundation* Middle Village Chamber of Commerce* Middle Village Property Owners* Middle Village Maspeth Civic Association* MOMS Club of Middle Village* Nativity BVM Youth Basketball League* New York City Parks, Dry Harbor Pre-school at Forest Park* New York Elmhurst Friendly Society* New York Families for Autistic Children* New York Junior Tennis League* One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center* Order Sons of Italy of America New York Grand Lodge Fdn.* Ozone Park Residents Block Association* Ozone Park Civic Association* Parkway Hospital Workshops* Partnership for the Homeless Emergency Shelter Program* Polonians Organized to Minister to our Community, Inc.* Queens Economic Development Corp.* Queens Legal Services Corp.* Queens Historical Society* Queens Services for Autistic Citizens* Richmond Hill Historical Society* Ridgewood Local Development Corp.* Ridgewood Glendale Middle Village Maspeth Little League* Ridgewood Property Owners & Civic Association* St. Stanislaus Athletic Association * South Queens Boys & Girls Club* Striving to Achieve & Reach Success* The Constitution Works at Federal Hall National Memorial* The Forest Park Trust* United 40's Civic Association* VISIONS Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired* West Maspeth Local Development Corp.* Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society* Woodhaven Residents Block Association
Education* Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College journal* CUNY Aviation Institute at York College Aviation Managemenet scholarships* CUNY School of Law at Queens College Community Legal Resource Network* Elderly Homebound Project at the Lexington School for the Deaf* Executive Leadership Institute professional development for administrators* Franklin K. Lane High School ROTC program and culinary program* Franklin K. Lane High School SPARK Program* Holocaust Resource Center at Queensborough Community College* I.S. 93 learning field trips* I.S. 119 music program* John Adams High School sign* Kupferberg Center @ Queens College K-8 arts education* M.S. 137 library materials* M.S. 202 school supplies* M.S. 210 computer facility* Our Lady of Hope School After School Program for the public* Program for deaf adults at LaGuardia Community College* P.S. 49 sound system and musical instruments* P.S. 56 school supplies* P.S. 62 educational supplies* P.S. 66 supplemental materials for a reading program* P.S. 68 math workshops* P.S. 87 Project Dance program* P.S. 97 library materials * P.S. 88 auditorium renovation* P.S. 146 Project Read After School* P.S. 254 classroom libraries* Queens College WWII research* Queensborough Community College sign-interpretation at performances* Region 4 law-related education programs* Region 4 Magnet/Beacon program for the gifted and talented* RF CUNY/Creative Arts Team at M.S. 210* Richmond Hill High School SAT Prep classes* St. John's University heritage and cultural program* Saint Stanislaus Kostka School Special Teacher Program* School for Language & Developmental Communications computer software* Science Enrichment and Preparation Program at St. Francis College
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