CHARITABLE GIVING

As a Newspaper, it's our responsibility to provide the news and information our readers need. As a Long Island business, it's our obligation to respond to the needs of the community. Today young people are in great need of support. In 2005 Newsday changed the focus of its charitable giving to focus specifically on enhancing opportunities for children and youth at risk.

Newsday distributes approximately $1 million every year to local non-profit agencies in order to help them deliver essential services. Most of Newsday's giving is made possible by donations from everyday readers who support Newsday Charities' two annual fund-raisers-- Help-A-Family and Kids Campaign.

Costs for these fundraisers are covered by Newsday and Newsday Charities-- a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation (MTF). The first $600,000 donated this year through Newsday Charities will be matched 50 cents on the dollar by MTF which puts that much more money into our local community.

Newsday Charities Grant Guidelines
Grants are made from Newsday Charities in response to applications from 501(c)3 organizations in Nassau County, Suffolk County and New York City. Newsday Charities focuses on programs and activities that primarily seek to enchance opportunities for children and youth in at-risk environments.

Primary Interests:

  • Programs for children and young people that create opportunities for positive social, emotional, educational and intellectual development.
  • Prevention programs designed to inhibit the incidence of risk-related behavior and empower young people to build productive lives.
  • Essential needs such as food, clothing and shelter.
  • Student and family literacy programs.

For Application and further information: Newsday Charities 631-843-3056.

Help-A-Family
For more than 40 years this annual holiday fundraiser has provided tens of millions of dollars to help needy families get through the holidays and beyond. Through Newsday Charities’ grants, families are able to buy gifts for their children, as well as staple items like housing, food, medicine and clothes.

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The Kids Campaign
Learning shouldn’t stop in the summer for the kids who need it most. Every year, the Kids Campaign fund-raiser helps ensure that it doesn’t. This campaign kicks off in the paper every Spring raising money for kids who need supplemental services such as social, emotional and developmental care during the summer months. Without the Kids Campaign, lots of kids in need would fall through the cracks and struggle to readjust at the beginning of the school year.

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Donations are collected for both funds year round and applied to the following year.

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