Recent Grants – Fiscal Year 2008
Foundation makes nearly $50,000 in New Grants
Story Created:
Oct 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM EDT
Story Updated:
Aug 21, 2009 at 12:10 PM EDT
In fiscal year 2008, the Oneida Nation Foundation made grants totaling nearly $50,000 to charities working in the areas of children and youth, health and human services, veterans groups and military personnel, and the Central New York community.
- The American Diabetes Association
- American Indian College Fund
- American Legion #787 Ladies Auxiliary
- American Legion Fort Schuyler Post 1290
- Arc of Onondaga Foundation
- ARC, Madison-Cortland Chapter
- ARC, Oneida-Lewis Chapter
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Syracuse
- Close-Up Foundation
- Community General Foundation
- Crouse Health Foundation
- Emerald City Marine Corps Detachment #877
- Erie Canal School Boat Foundation
- Francis House
- Friends of Saratoga Battlefield
- The Genesis Group
- Great Swamp Conservancy, Inc.
- Harry J. Snyder Memorial Scholarship Fund
- Herkimer County College Foundation, Inc.
- Herkimer County Community College
- Hiawatha Seaway Council, Inc./Boy Scouts of America
- Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc.
- The House of the Good Shepherd
- Institute of American Indian Arts
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 43
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Leadership Mohawk Valley
- Leatherstocking Ballet Company
- Madison County’s Promise
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central New York
- Manlius Pebble Hill School
- Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
- Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology
- Mohawk Valley Frontiers Club
- Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees
- National Indian Child Welfare Association
- Oglala Lakota College
- Oneida County Historical Society
- Oneida Police Benevolent Association
- Ophelia’s Place
- Present Company Productions, Inc.
- Resource Center for Independent Living
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central New York
- Running Strong for American Indian Youth – Slim Buttes Agricultural Development Program
- Stockbridge Valley Central School
- SuAnne Big Crow Boys & Girls Club
- Syracuse Rescue Mission
- Syracuse Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center
- Upstate Medical University Foundation
- Utica Rescue Mission
- Vera House, Incorporated
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. – Trach-Auringer VFW Post 7325
- WCNY-TV, Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York, Inc.
- YWCA of the Mohawk Valley
- Ziyara Shriners A.A.O.N.M.S.
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