Charitable Donations in the New Millennium

2008

• Purchased airline tickets to Ukraine for therpay for 8 yr. old and her mother
• Gift certificates from J.C. Pennys in amount of $1500 for a family of four children who won Habitat for Humanity lottery in Holbrook, LI
• Special Needs Grants were made to
  - Helping Hands Outreach, Old Bethpage NY - $15,000
  - Assn. for Children with Down Syndrome, Plainview, NY - $15,000
  - Rocking Horse Rehab, W. Orange, NJ - $15,000
  - Alpine Learning Center, Paramus, NJ - $10,000
  - Assn. for Children with Learning Disabilities, Kramer Learning Center, Bayshore, NY - $10,000
  - Cooley’s Anemia – New York, NY - $7,500
  - Children’s Skin Disease Foundation, Walnut Creek, CA - $7,500
• Donated $7500 to Rocking Horse Rehab from our Special Needs Fund for Italian American children with autism.
• Purchased a $3840 NuStep excercize machine for a 24 year old with Multiple Sclerosis from Brooklyn.
• Purchased a $1372 feeder base for a special chair needed by 12 year old girl from Queens, NY with Rett’s Syndrome.
• Purchased $500 gift certificate for food for Italian family with teen who suffers from Syndrome West, in U.S. for 4 months of physcial therapy.
• Sent Easter basekt of toys and gift certificates to the 3 yr. old, whose father is in a coma as a result of an auto accident.
• Sent Easter baskets of toys and gift certificates to the 1 yr. old son and 5 yr. old daughter of a fallen NYC firefighter.
• Paid $1010 for Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Gymnastics for autistic 4 yr. old of Wanaque,NJ.
• Purchased $1500 worth of gift certificates from BabysRus, Target and Pathmark for a Virginia family with six children (3 of them triplets), displaced to Commack, LI, while father was in Iraq serving in the Navy.
• Covered outstanding orthodontics bill, $400, for 9 yr. old with Tourette’s Syndrome from Wanaque,NJ.
• Donated $1250 for two weeks of Hofstra University Summer Camp Reach Program for a young Lindenhurst boy with Asperger’s Syndrome.
• Donated $1000 for Adults and Children With Learning and Developmental Dis-Abilities for a 12 yr. old E. Islip girl with autism.