Charitable Donations in the New Millennium

2010

• Gave a Special Needs grant in the amount of $5000 to the AHRC's Camp Loyaltown in Plainview, NY for recipients of Italian descent
• Sent a 2 year old autistic boy from Patterson, NJ for an 11 week session at Shooting Stars Gymnastics in Wycoff, NJ, costing $458.50.
• Donated $2500 toward dog-training services for a 17 year old brain-ingury victim from Brooklyn at East Coast Assistance Dogs, Inc. of Torrington, CT
• Sent $1545 to Association for Help of Retarded Children's Camp Loyaltown, for a 9 yr old Levittown, L.I. boy with Autism.
• Purchased a $1000 gift certificate to ShopRite for a family with four children the IWL adopted at Easter, whose father was electrocuted due to his prosthetic leg.
• Christmas Adoptees, two brothers, 6 and 1, from New Jersey, who have a genetic brain disorder: gave $1100 in gift certificates to Toys R Us, B & N, Disney Store, The Gap, Best Buy and a Wii for rehab.
• Purchased $500 gift certificate to Wild By Nature healthfood store for a Long Island family with three autistic sons who suffer from food allergies. Paid $525 for occupational therapy for one 6-year old son.

2009

• $7,500 for physical therapy to a 47 year old bed-ridden male, who has to be cared for like a child.
• 8 Special Needs Grants to:
  Helping Hands Behavioral Outreach, Old Bethpage, NY - $15,000
  Assn. for Children with Down Syndrome, Plainview, NY - 15,000
  Rocking Horse Rehab, W. Orange, NJ - 15,000
  ACLD kramer Learning Center, Bayshore, NY - 8,000
  Cooley's Anemia Foundation, NY, NY - 8,000
  Children's Skin Disease Foundation, Walnut Creek, CA - 8,000
  Special Srides Therapeutic Riding Ctr., Monroe Township, NJ - 8,000
  Angela's House, E. Moriches/Smithtown, NY 8,000
• Purchased a $1324.94 bedroom set that had to be cancelled due to financial hardship for a 2 ½ yr. old girl from Mastic, LI, suffering from a rare form of liver cancer.
• Donated t wo bicyles with toddler seats, helmets and a bike rack costing $1412 were generously donated by a single member of the League for brother and sister: 2 ½ year old boy and 6 year old girl from Hauppauge, who suffer from a rare neurogenerative disease.
• Contributed $4000 toward the purchase of a $16,000 specially-extended van for the three adult children of a Kings Park, LI family who are all wheelchair bound.
• Donated $1445 for finger therapy sessions and $535 for orthopedic treatment for a 6 yr. old girl from Toms River, NJ who suffers fromPrader-Willi Syndrome.
• Custom Freedom Bicycle, $4203 and special chair, $284 for a 7 ½ yr. old girl from Staten Island with Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy
  
• Theratogs Vest, $406, for a 1 yr. old boy from Queens, NY who suffers from multiple developmental problems
  
• $1000 donation to the Ava Loren Barbarino Trust for a 6 month old girl with Charge Syndrome and Severe Immunodeficiency (Rest in Peace).
  
• Custom Freedom Bicycle, $2343, for a 4 yr. old boy who suffers from CP from Atlantic Beach, NY.
  
• $423.50 to Shooting Stars Gymnastics for 6 ½ yr. old Autistic boy from Hawthorne, NJ.
  
• Easter gift of $2000 gift certificate to Babys R Us for a Staten Island family with newborn quintuplets
  
• Easter gift of $1000 gift certificates to Old Navy, Modell’s and Macy’s for two Brooklyn children whose father was crushed to death in a work-related accident.
  
• Two weeks, $1350 Hofstra University Summer Camp for a Lindenhurst boy with Aspergers, ODD, OCD, ADD.