2012 Holiday Donations

Below are some of the deserving organizations Gerstein Fisher has supported this holiday season. Please click on their name if you would like to learn more about their good works.

1. American Cancer Society: The American Cancer Society is dedicated to helping persons who face cancer. The organization supports research, patient services, early detection, treatment and education.
2. American Camp Association: The American Camp Association is a community of camp professionals who, for 100 years, have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs. Because of their diverse 9,000 plus membership and their exceptional programs, children and adults have the opportunity to learn powerful lessons in community, character-building, skill development, and healthy living — lessons that can be learned nowhere else.
3. Art Spire: Artspire is an online community for artists and arts organizations brought to you by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), one of the country's most respected not-for-profit arts organizations.
4. Art Start: The purpose of Art Start is to value and nurture the voices, hearts, and minds of under-served children and teenagers and help them transform their lives through the creative process. Art Start uses a multi-disciplined approach to arts education that is centered on the kids and their interests and equips them with learning, creating, and communicating skills. Offered in a nurturing environment, Art Start's programs challenge each child to develop his or her inner gifts and acquire tools to succeed in life.
5. Best Friends Animal Society: Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us. Through grassroots efforts they place dogs and cats into good homes, and reduce the number of unwanted pets through effective spray and neuter programs. Since their inception in the early 80s, the number of dogs and cats being destroyed in shelters has decreased from 17 million to 5 million. Their goal is to bring this number to zero.
6. Brooklyn Youth Sports Club: Brooklyn Youth Sports Club enables and supports inner-city Brooklyn youth to accomplish their goal of college enrollment. To use basketball as the vehicle to engage student-athletes to achieve academic excellence. To instill values of perseverance, self esteem, integrity, and hard work and empower student-athletes to be leaders on and off the court.
7. Bulldogs Care Foundation: The Bulldogs Care Foundation was founded in memory of four Yale University students who lost their lives in a fatal car accident. The organization seeks to support disadvantaged youth as they pursue personal development through programs in athletics, education and mentoring.
8. Community Resource Exchange: Community Resource Exchange is a nonprofit management consulting firm that makes New York City's nonprofit organizations stronger and more effective in fighting poverty and advancing social justice. For over 30 years, Community Resource Exchange has worked to create a more just, equitable and livable city for all New Yorkers by offering strategic advice and technical services to over 300 community-based nonprofit organizations.
9. Council for Economic Education: The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is the leading organization in the United States that focuses on the economic and financial education of students from kindergarten through high school. For the past 60 years, their mission has been to instill in young people the fourth “R”—a real-world understanding of economics and personal finance. It is only by acquiring economic and financial literacy that children can learn that there are better options for a life well lived, will be able to see opportunity on their horizon line and, ultimately, can grow into successful and productive adults capable of making informed and responsible decisions.
10. EcoHealth Alliance: EcoHealth Alliance is an international organization of scientists dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity. For more than 35 years, EcoHealth Alliance has focused its efforts on conservation. Today, they are known for innovative research on the intricate relationships between wildlife, ecosystems and human health. EcoHealth Alliance, a conservation science innovator, specializes in saving biodiversity in human-dominated bioscapes where ecological health is most at risk because of habitat loss, species imbalance, pollution and other environmental issues caused by human-induced change.
11. Global Kids: Global Kids, Inc.is a premier non-profit educational organization for global learning and youth development. They work to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage. Young people examine global issues, make local connections, and create change through peer education, social action, digital media, and service-learning, while receiving intensive support from Global Kids staff.
12. Greyston Bakery: From the roots of Greyston Bakery and its open hiring policy, a larger mission developed to support low-income individuals and their families. Greyston Foundation was created to help individuals forge a path to self-sufficiency. Today, Greyston Foundation has become a national model for comprehensive community development. Recognized as a pioneer in social enterprise, Greyston uses entrepreneurship to solve the problems of the inner city and reduce reliance on external funding sources.
13. Interfaith Committee of Remembrance: Interfaith Committee of Remembrance was started about 15 years ago to celebrate life by honoring the memory of 6 million men, women and children that were killed simply because of their religious beliefs. The organization presents musical and artistic concerts/events about the Holocaust, with the belief that music is an international language, to bridge the barriers that separate people.
14. James Lenox House: James Lenox House Association provides comfortable, secure and affordable housing for older adults in New York City through its two residences, James Lenox House and Carnegie East House.
15. Mt. Kisco Child Care Center: The mission of the Mt. Kisco Child Care Center is to provide high quality affordable childcare to a diverse group of children in a safe, healthy and developmentally appropriate environment. They strive to promote each child's intellectual, physical, emotional and social development with an emphasis on enhancing his/her feelings of self-esteem, and are committed to ensuring the ethnic, social and cultural diversity of the student body, based on the belief that this policy is beneficial to all children and has long-term benefits for the community as a whole.
16. NARAL: National organization advocating for and providing comprehensive information on reproductive rights in the U.S.
17. Phoenix House: Phoenix House is committed to protecting and supporting individuals, families, and communities affected by substance abuse and dependency.
18. Roswell Park Cancer Institute: The Roswell Park Cancer Institute, founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, is America's first cancer center. Dr. Park's revolutionary model of a “multidisciplinary approach” to cancer – with scientists and clinicians working in concert and in consult – has become the standard by which all modern-day comprehensive cancer centers are measured.
19. The DOME Project: Developing Opportunities through Meaningful Education (DOME) was founded in 1973 to challenge the myriad threats to youngsters who had fallen through the cracks of the traditional school system. Since its inception, The DOME Project has dedicated itself to meeting the complex needs of young people in trouble with the law, their schools, and themselves, and has helped thousands of young people to develop the necessary skills to regain a sense of self-worth and prepare for success in their education and beyond.
20. Tony Hawk Foundation: The Tony Hawk Foundation seeks to foster lasting improvements in society, with an emphasis on supporting and empowering youth. Through special events, grants, and technical assistance, the foundation supports recreational programs with a focus on the creation of public skateboard parks in low-income communities. The Foundation favors programs that clearly demonstrate that funds received will produce tangible, ongoing, positive results.
21. University at Buffalo Foundation: The mission of the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc., is to support and promote the activities and programs of the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. This is accomplished by providing advice and counsel regarding philanthropy and fund raising, managing gifts and grants on behalf of the university, providing a wide range of financial services for the various units of the university, developing and managing real property on behalf of the university, and providing a strong base of private-sector support for the university through the foundation's trustees and directors.
22. Visions: VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a nonprofit rehabilitation and social service organization whose purpose is to develop and implement programs to assist people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired to lead independent and active lives in their homes and communities, and educate the public to understand the capabilities and needs of people who are blind or visually impaired so that they may be integrated into all aspects of community life.