Helping Nonprofits Thrive
Side by Side is a charitable fund in the Long Island Community Foundation.
We support nonprofits on Long Island’s North Fork by assisting their efforts in improving lives through arts, education, youth development, human services, health, and the environment.
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Our Grantees
The Butterfly Effect Project
The Butterfly Effect Project works with girls ages 6-18 to create safe spaces to dream and succeed. Side by Side is assisting BEP in a project which focuses on girls ages 14-18. It begins with career exploration, through academic planning, testing prep, financial aid, and college visits, while engaging in college workshops and counseling that taps into the BEP professional network of volunteers. Students commit in writing to the program, and to achieving those academic requirements needed to fulfill their self-defined aspirations. In short, BEP is fashioned on the Butterfly Effect, wherein small targeted efforts early in life can greatly alter outcomes and help these butterflies realize their true potential.
New Suffolk Waterfront Fund
Side by Side is proud to assist the community-based New Suffolk Waterfront Fund in improving its public spaces in this historic hamlet. Since 2005, NSWF has been custodian to waterfront property once earmarked for commercial/industrial development. In particular, with this project, NSWF is educating visitors about the hamlet’s important history through new signage, and is continuing its beautification efforts to further restore its native landscape.
Floyd Memorial Library
Greenport’s Floyd Memorial Library approached Side by Side for help with its growing challenge: as the world continues to digitize all aspects of life - particularly in how it disseminates knowledge and provides access to services - library patrons without digital access face an ever increasing obstacle to sharing in the benefits of a connected world. To help kickstart the library’s efforts, Side by Side is financing the technology required to loan laptops and tablets, along with network access and specific library software, for up to fifty patrons in this groundbreaking effort.
East End Arts & Humanities Council
East End Arts collaborated with the Long Island Science Center (LISC) to create STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) curricula for both in-person and interactive-virtual programming for Riverhead Township students, whose schools have had to cut all non-core learning.
CAST
Side by Side has assisted CAST in continuing its successful North Fork Culinary pilot workforce-training program. This program is designed to teach basic culinary skills and techniques to high school juniors and seniors and leads to a Suffolk County Food Safety/Food Manager’s Certification. It meets labor market needs for North Fork food service businesses and the vocational and professional skill needs of low-income high school juniors and seniors whose options may not include college. All three local high schools consider the pilot program a success and CAST has made it a permanent offering.
Group for the East End
Group for the East End protects and restores the environment of eastern Long Island through education, citizen action and professional advocacy. North Fork Side by Side is supporting their efforts to inform Orient hamlet residents about looming water quality issues. Their insights and concerns will inform a new watershed management plan for Orient Harbor addressing septic and storm runoff. This plan will set overall goals, estimate capital investments, propose a management structure for a water quality improvement district, and design a sustainable funding mechanism.
Our Other Grantees
Custer Institute
Eastern Long Island Hospital
Family Health and Wellness, Cornell Extension
Hallockville Farm
Landcraft Garden Foundation
Sound Justice Initiative
Southold Public Library