2009 Holiday Donations

Gerstein Fisher is proud to support the following charitable organizations this holiday season:

1. Alzheimer's Association: The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. Its mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.
2. American India Foundation: AIF is a nonprofit American development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in India. The American India Foundation is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in India. In order to build an India where all people can gain access to education, healthcare, and employment opportunities and where every Indian can realize their full potential.
3. 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.
4. Byram Hills Educational Foundation: The foundation aims to enhance the educational experience of all children within the Byram Hills Central School District by generating community support to fund innovative grants that encourage learning and personal development. The BHEF enables various schools to provide Byram Hills students with exceptional programs, projects and equipment that are not covered by the Byram Hills School District Operating Budget.
5. Catalyst: Works towards expanding opportunities for women in business.
6. Doctors without Borders: MSF's work is based on the humanitarian principles of medical ethics and impartiality. The organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.
7. Dos Pueblos: Dos Pueblos High School is dedicated to the educational goals and objectives of Santa Barbara High School District. They recognize that every person attending this school is a unique human being entitled to an education geared to that person's needs. In order to accomplish this, Dos Pueblos provide an educational environment in which many alternatives exist. They are committed to helping each student become someone with a strong positive self-image and give them sufficient skills to compete effectively in the world, and someone who has a desire to continue learning and who will be a responsible effective member of society.
8. Greyston Foundation: Greyston Foundation is a $13,000,000 integrated network of for-profit and not-for-profit entities, providing jobs, workforce development, low-income housing, supportive services, child care, after-school programs, comprehensive HIV health care, housing, community gardens and a gourmet bakery business. Greyston is distinguished by its entrepreneurial culture and its spiritually rooted philosophy, which combine community development and a commitment to human growth and potential.
9. Groundspring:Makes it easy for individuals to donate and volunteer online as it is to shop online, and they make it simple and affordable for all nonprofits, of any size, to recruit donors and volunteers via the Internet. IN the past they have created a secure, convenient donation system that makes it possible to give to any charity, anywhere, anytime online. In doing so, they have raised over $270 million in online donations to more than 45,000 different nonprofit organizations and have built a Volunteer Network that connects users across the country with more than 200,000 local, international and virtual volunteer opportunities.
10. Isabella Rainone Foundation: Working together with organizations such as March of Dimes and Ronald McDonald House Charities, the Isabella Rainone Foundation is designed to support healthy opportunities for seriously ill children and their families.
11. Jewish International Connection NY: Jewish International Connection of New York fosters Jewish continuity by acclimating and enhancing the Jewish experience for International and American Jews in their 20s and 30s in a multi-faceted and growing community.
12. Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. LLS's mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Their goal for the future is one in which LLS has transformed the lives of people with blood cancer and the healthcare landscape that patients, families and caregivers navigate.
13. Michael J. Fox Foundation: The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today.
14. Mt. Kisco Child Care Centre: Their mission is to provide high quality affordable childcare to a diverse group of children in a safe, healthy and developmentally appropriate environment.  The goal of the Center is to promote each child's intellectual, physical, emotional and social development with an emphasis on enhancing his/her feelings of self-esteem. They 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.
15. National Association of Social Workers: The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world, with 150,000 members. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.
16. National Jewish Health: The Jewish National's mission since 1899 is to heal, to discover and to educate as a preeminent health care institution. It serves by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and finding cures for the diseases we research; and by educating and training the next generation of health care professionals to be leaders in medicine and science.
17. Save The Children: Their mission is to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need. Save the Children ensures that children in need grow up safe, educated and healthy, and better able to attain their rights. Their vision is a world in which every child is ensured the right to survival, protection, development and participation. They provide a wide range of programs, such as training new mothers with prenatal care, supplying life-saving immunizations for young children, building schools in developing countries and improving literacy and nutrition for children living in rural poverty in the U.S.
18. Swim Strong: The Swim Strong Foundation is a not for profit organization dedicated to inspire youth to achieve their potential through competitive swimming. Swim Strong's mission is to create and support community based swim programs that guide children towards healthy lifestyles through exercise and competition, provide financial assistance to talented but disadvantaged children to be able to participate in USA Swimming programs and supply expertise and support to organizations seeking to promote children's competitive swimming.
19. T.E.A.L.: Tell Every Amazing Lady's mission is to promote awareness of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer, to enable early detection, and to help find the cure for this deadly disease.
20. 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.
21. The Flatlands Lions: The Flatlands Lions is a community based volunteer organization, provides support for vision and health programs and helps aid young burn survivors.
22. SUNY Downstate Medical Center: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient's bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and Health Related Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, a School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and an A/8dvanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology Incubator.
23. 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.
24. Wildlife Trust: Wildlife Trust is an international organization of scientists dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity.  For more than 35 years, Wildlife Trust has focused its efforts on conservation.  Today, they are known for our innovative research on the intricate relationships between wildlife, ecosystems and human health. Wildlife Trust, 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.
25. Young Dancers In Repertory: Young Dancers In Repertory (YDR) is a non-profit Brooklyn-based arts organization which provides professional training and fosters growth and communication through dance via creative educational arts programming and performances for children, youth and the general public
26. Youth, I.N.C: Youth, I.N.C.'s mission is to improve the lives of America's youth through a unique venture philanthropy model that empowers, develops, and educates nonprofit organizations serving young people. We improve the lives of kids by strengthening the organizations that serve them. Youth, I.N.C. forms long-term relationships with nonprofits and offers training, mentoring, and support to build more effective and sustainable organizations.