Over the past several months, the Oneida Nation Foundation has contributed $15,393 to needy organizations and institutions in both Indian country and in Upstate New York.

“These donations are part of the ongoing efforts of the Oneida Indian Nation to help our brothers and sisters in Indian country, as well as our neighbors here locally,” stated Chuck Fougnier, chairman of the Oneida Nation Foundation. “More than 35 groups in Central New York received help from the generosity of the Nation—from organizations benefitting children and the disadvantaged to those focusing on health-related issues and the environment.”

These donations were in addition to the $220,525 that 84 local and regional charities received earlier this year from the Nation’s Upstate New York Empowerment Fund for selling tickets to the Turning Stone Resort Championship, a PGA TOUR event.

List of the groups that received donations from the Oneida Nation Foundation:

American Indian College Fund, Running Strong for American Indian Youth, Project Children, Rome Area Chamber of Commerce, Francis House, Stanley B. Penncock Post #2893, International Boxing Hall of Fame, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Special Olympics of New York, American Cancer Society, Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency Child Development, Student Yearbook at SUNY Morrisville, Boeheim Foundation / CNY Blooms Preview Garden, Drums Along the Mohawk, Harry J. Snyder Scholarship Fund, Wanderer’s Rest Humane Association, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation-CNY, Close-up Foundation, Present Company Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities of CNY, Tully Hill Chemical Dependency Treatment Center, Present Company Productions, Veterans of Foreign Wars-Trach Auringer, Madison County Habitat for Humanity, Manlius Pebble Hill, Make-a-Wish Foundation—CNY, Army Aviation Association of America, Children’s Museum of History, Science & and Technology-Utica, Great Swamp Conservancy, ARC of Onondaga County, Utica Center for Development, American Diabetes Association-CNY, House of the Good Shepherd, Boys & Girls Club of Syracuse, ARC-Oneida-Lewis Chapter, MV Council on Alcoholism, Syracuse Symphony Association, American Auxiliary Post 366, Boonville Farmers Market-Kids Day, and Sylvan Beach Fire Department.