Endowment Committee Report 2025:
The Endowment Committee worked from January through March. The committee consisted of Melody Burdekin, Barbara Presser, Nancy Schoenberger, Diane Walker-Torkelson and me.
Fourteen organizations submitted grants. We divided the grants up among the 5 members and did our due diligence looking into each application.
In March, we made our decisions over a zoom meeting. The following organizations received grants:
Spirit of NYS: to support 55 students who are either homeless or impoverished, to keep them in school
Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha: to be used for birthday bags filled with socks, underwear and books for impoverished students in the city schools. Everyone deserves a Happy Birthday.
Shepard House: to be used to furnish furniture for the living room of the hospice house
Association for Children’s Creativity: to be used for the Magic Dragon magazine which supports students in the city schools to share their stories and artwork.
Junior Achievement of Central Upstate NY: to be used to support a Young Women’s Leadership Summit
Corn Hill Navigation: to be used for two speakers on two charter boat trips that ties Women’s Rights with the Erie Canal
Education Success Foundation: to support the activities of EnCompass: Resources for Learning and The Norman Howard School.
Museum of Transportation: to be used to help restore a Way Station that sits on the property in Rush.
Historic Pittsford: to be used to purchase electrical boxes and motion lights as they upgrade the Little House .
Pittsford CommUNITY, Inc: to be used to help sponsor the Martin Luther King Living the Dream Series.
We also gave $500 to the Pittsford Food Cupboard as well as being able to present two Scholarships to a student at Mendon and Sutherland.
Grants from 1984-2025 currently stand at over $400,000
1984-2021
Grants from 2022-2025
Angels of Mercy
Association for Encouragement of Children’s Creativity
Education Success Foundation
Equicenter
Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha
Horizons at Harley
Junior League of Rochester
Literacy Rochester
NAMI Rochester
New York Museum of Transportation
Ontario County Historical Society
Oregon Leopold Day Care Center
Pittsford CommUNITY
Rochester Community Robotics
Scouts BSA Pittsford Troop 11G
Sew Green Rochester
Shepard House
Spirit of NYS
St. Michael’s Woodshed
Willie Bee Foundation
Angels of Mercy
Association for Encouragement of Children’s Creativity
Education Success Foundation
Equicenter
Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha
Horizons at Harley
Junior League of Rochester
Literacy Rochester
NAMI Rochester
New York Museum of Transportation
Ontario County Historical Society
Oregon Leopold Day Care Center
Pittsford CommUNITY
Rochester Community Robotics
Scouts BSA Pittsford Troop 11G
Sew Green Rochester
Shepard House
Spirit of NYS
St. Michael’s Woodshed
Willie Bee Foundation
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