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Eat Well and Prosper

LICF is helping home bound seniors stay active, healthy, and well fed through a grant to EAC Network in Hempstead.
Hope for Youth

We’re funding the Espoir (means hope) Youth Program, which helps these students overcome educational, cultural and language barriers.
An Arts Center to Revitalize

Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja received an LICF grant to help bring together diverse ethnic groups together, revitalize neglected commercial space, and spurred economic development.
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Not just a job - A career

Isaiah Smith learns about animal care and volunteer opportunities thanks to a grant we gave to the Viscardi Center's program teaching students how to navigate a career path.
Transformation Through Triathlon

i-tri in East Hampton gets a grant through our AFTEE Fund and helps girls struggling in school or home life to train & compete in triathlons. The group teaches the power of teamwork, healthy relationships, and nutritious eating.
Change not Charity

LI Unitarian Universalist Fund at LICF was created by the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. Read how they invest millions to advance social change.

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Legal Help for Veterans

A $20,000 grant helped veterans get legal services and improve their health.
Special Kind of Healthcare

$50,000 funding to Winthrop Pediatric Associates in Hempstead allowed for a Child Life Specialist and provided a very special kind of healthcare to one of Nassau County’s poorest neighborhoods.

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Recent News

The Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund Awards $70,000 in Social Change Grants to Nonprofits

New Report Finds That Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Would Lead to a $24 Billion Boost to Long Island’s Economy

Long Island’s Community Foundation Awards $252,500 to Nonprofits

Spring has Sprung! Investing in Change 2017 Spring Newsletter is here...

Long Island’s Community Foundation Announces $560,000 in Final Round of Grants

DONOR HIGHLIGHT

WHY DO YOU GIVE?

SHE'S INVESTING IN A CURE

So she gives to charities from her fund at the Long Island Community Foundation.

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PolicyLink releases ‘The Equity Profile of Long Island’, a groundbreaking report on the state of economic inclusion on the Island. Read more...

Long Island's Suburban Poverty

Long Island's Immigrant Children's Fund

How clean is the water in your part of the Sound? We funded a study to find out... read here

Data shows that the Long Island Workforce Housing Act has had little impact on the ground. Read this report from the Center for Popular Democracy...click here.