CSF Receives Grant from Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation

The Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation awarded over $13,000 on December 8 to 14 organizations and programs designed to benefit the Staten Island community.

This was the fourth award ceremony for the foundation's inaugural year. More than $25,000 has been distributed to 31 organizations.

The check presentations took place yesterday at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield, and were presented by husband-and-wife hoteliers and board members Richard and Lois Nicotra and Kristine Garlisi, executive director of the foundation.

Grants of $1,000 were given to: The Congregation of the Daughters of the Divine Charity, to defray the cost of building a handicap-accessible addition on the property of St. Joseph Hill Academy; Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation, for public awareness and research; PS 54, the Charles W. Leng School, to purchase a reading program; Amazing Kids Connection at Amazing Grace Interfaith Ministry, to provide clothing and supplies to children from needy families; Special Olympics New York, to help fund 2012 Staten Island programming; PS 50, the Frank Hankinson School, to build and sustain a partnership among students, teachers, and teaching artists with the New York Philharmonic; the St. George Theatre Restoration, to purchase show tickets for school students in under-served communities; The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, to support the "Mobile Heritage Project"; College of Staten Island/CUNY, to sponsor a participant in the 2012 Class of the Staten Island Leadership Institute; Seamen's Society for Children and Families, to provide funding for President Clinton's challenge grant to raise $50,000.