2004 Annual Report
for the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation
Children & Youth - 2004
Grantee and Purpose   Commitments   Paid
1/1 - 12/31
  Payable in
following year
American Red Cross, Yates County Chapter
To help support a Youth Program Coordinator to ensure that as many children as possible have access to quality swimming instruction in Yates County
  $10,000   $10,000   $0
Baden Street Settlement
To purchase playground equipment for the Alvin Wesley Child Development Center
  $20,000   $20,000   $0
Children Awaiting Parents, Inc.
To help support the "One Child at a Time-A Monroe County Initiative" project
  $25,000   $25,000   $0
Children's Institute, Inc.
To support the Rochester Early Enhancement Project (REEP), a collaborative of agencies who provide services to women, children and families in Sector 3, Northwest Rochester
  $200,000   $200,000   $0
Community Partners for Youth, Inc.
To help support the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program
  $18,000   $18,000   $0
Compeer, Inc.
To help support Compeer For Kids, a mentoring program designed to help disadvantaged and disabled youth with mental illness
  $15,000   $15,000   $0
Genesee Country Museum
To help support Hands On History, History Bus and Summer Enrichment Program Scholarships for economically disadvantaged RCSD students
  $110,800   $110,800   $0
Harvard Law School
To the current use financial aid fund for a scholarship in honor of the memory of Sydney R. Rubin, 1942 class
  $10,000   $10,000   $0
Hearing and Speech Center of Rochester
Payment of a 2003 commitment
To help support the Early Literacy Project, an educational/training program for adults who interact with children birth to age 6 years
  $0   $30,000   $0
Hillside Work Scholarship Connection, Inc.
To help fund a school-based intervention program to help youth at risk of dropping out of school complete their education
  $55,000   $55,000   $0
Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area, Inc.
To provide business and economic education programming for area youth
  $12,000   $12,000   $0
Monroe Community College Foundation
To help support the Rochester Parent Network's Professional Development for Early Childhood Practitioners program
  $20,000   $20,000   $0
Otetiana Council, Inc. Boy Scouts of America
To help support Scoutreach at School #17, which provides programs that impact the lives of young people in high-risk, low-income neighborhoods
  $9,069   $9,069   $0
Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc.
To help support The Children's Agenda, whose mission is to improve the well- being of children by influencing local public policies and practices
  $25,000   $25,000   $0
Rochester General Hospital Foundation
To help support the School to Work Health Care Youth Apprenticeship program, a partnership with the hospital and Benjamin Franklin High School
  $50,000   $50,000   $0
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Rochester, NY, Inc.
To help support the "Embracing Hands & Hearts Campaign" to establish a house within a hospital at Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong
  $25,000   $25,000   $0
SABAH National, Inc. Rochester
To help support a therapeutic ice skating program for physically, mentally and emotionally challenged children
  $5,000   $5,000   $0
Seneca Park Zoo Society
To support the Butterfly Beltway program, which will include educational programs for underprivileged children and stimulating activities for nursing home residents
  $16,000   $16,000   $0
South Jefferson Central School District
An annual college scholarship fund in honor of the memory of Helen G. Whitney and Donald W. Whitney
  $3,000   $3,000   $0
Threshold Center for Alternative Youth Services
To help support the program PASS, a vocational training program for at-risk students
  $20,000   $20,000   $0
Volunteers of America
To help purchase a mini school bus for the Children's Center
  $10,000   $10,000   $0
Watertown City School District
An annual college scholarship fund in honor of the memory of Helen G. Whitney and Donald W. Whitney
  $3,000   $3,000   $0
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
Ready To Learn grant for children's television programming to help build learning skills
  $25,000   $25,000   $0
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
Homework Hotline grant to assist students with homework questions and problems in science, math, English and other subjects
  $10,000   $10,000   $0
YMCA of Greater Rochester
To provide support for the Early Childhood Education Quality Council's EOC BRIDGE Childcare Technician Training program
  $15,000   $15,000   $0
Children & Youth Totals:   $711,869   $741,869   $0
Community Development - 2004
Grantee and Purpose   Commitments   Paid
1/1 - 12/31
  Payable in
following year
Enterprise Foundation
To provide support for the Rochester Community Development Collaborative
  $125,000   $125,000   $0
Flower City Habitat for Humanity, Inc.
To help sponsor the rehabilitation of a single family home on Upper Falls Blvd.
  $44,400   $44,400   $0
Mercy Outreach Center
To help complete the renovations to the center to meet the health care needs of the uninsured and the working poor
  $7,500   $7,500   $0
North East Area Development, Inc.
To support the rehabilitation of the Wehle Landmark Building to include space for a childcare center
  $150,000   $150,000   $0
Rochester Landscape Technicians Program, Inc.
To help support RLTP's community development and landscape beautification projects, and to provide job training and job placement for disadvantaged city residents
  $45,000   $45,000   $0
Sector 4 Community Development Corporation
To help support the Urban Brew Community Coffee Shop project
  $40,000   $40,000   $0
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
To help the Eastern Service Workers Association expand services to low-income workers and families in Rochester
  $50,000   $50,000   $0
United Way Services Corporation
Payment of a 2003 commitment
To help support the Creating, Assets, Savings, and Hope (CASH) project, a community initiative to help build economic security for low-income working families
  $0   $25,000   $0
United Way Services Corporation
To help support the Creating, Assets, Savings, and Hope (CASH) project, a community initiative to help build economic security for low-income working families
  $35,000   $35,000   $0
Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester & Monroe County, Inc.
To help support the Career Ladder Program, a program designed to improve the recruitment, retention and advancement of health care paraprofessionals
  $30,000   $30,000   $0
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
To continue the Foundation's Broadcast Trainee Program, a program designed to give minority students an introduction to the broadcasting industry
  $11,000   $11,000   $0
Community Development Totals:   $537,900   $562,900   $0
Health - 2004
Grantee and Purpose   Commitments   Paid
1/1 - 12/31
  Payable in
following year
AIDS Rochester, Inc.
To help support the "Supportive Services for Family Stability Program"
  $25,000   $25,000   $0
DePaul Community Services
To help support the Eating Disorder Recovery Program Through Safe and Supportive Housing project
  $21,918   $21,918   $0
T. Franklin Williams M.D. Foundation
To help support the Train to Sustain Program, which will recruit and train individuals to become certified group exercise instructors in community-based locations in the northeast and southwest quadrants of the City of Rochester
  $35,000   $35,000   $0
Health Totals:   $81,918   $81,918   $0
Justice - 2004
Grantee and Purpose   Commitments   Paid
1/1 - 12/31
  Payable in
following year
Church Women United
To help support Task Force on Courts, a program that promotes a user-friendly court system
  $3,000   $3,000   $0
Justice Totals:   $3,000   $3,000   $0
Public Affairs - 2004
Grantee and Purpose   Commitments   Paid
1/1 - 12/31
  Payable in
following year
Al Sigl Center for Rehabilitation Agencies
To help underwrite "Mission-Driven Technology: Tools for Smart Nonprofits," a technology conference presented by Al Sigl Center Business Services and CCS to help not-for-profits better understand the use of technology
  $500   $500   $0
Association of Fundraising Professionals
To help support National Philanthropy Day 2004
  $500   $500   $0
Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, Inc.
To help support the 2004 "Building Hope Together" Gala
  $1,000   $1,000   $0
Center for Dispute Settlement, Inc.
To help CDS to celebrate thirty years of providing quality alternative dispute resolution services to the community
  $750   $750   $0
Community Food Cupboard of Rochester, Inc.
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $3,000   $3,000   $0
Council on Foundations
To increase the public's understanding of private philanthropy
  $4,600   $4,600   $0
Do The Right Thing of Rochester Inc.
To help support the "Do The Right Thing" Program, a public recognition program for Rochester city youth
  $10,000   $10,000   $0
Dundee Library
To help support the library's technology project
  $5,000   $5,000   $0
Enrico Fermi School No. 17
To change the signage on the dental center located @ Enrico Fermi School No. 17 to read "Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation Outreach Dental Center
  $475   $475   $0
Families and Friends of Murdered Children and Victims of Violence
To help support the Violence Response Team and Grief Support Groups for adult, adolescent and Spanish speaking survivors
  $15,000   $15,000   $0
Foundation Center
To contribute to the improvement of both the grantseeking process and the public's understanding of the purpose of private grantmaking
  $500   $500   $0
Genesee Country Museum
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $1,500   $1,500   $0
Historical Association of South Jefferson
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $1,000   $1,000   $0
LIFESPAN of Greater Rochester, Inc.
To support LIFESPAN's "Celebration of Aging" Luncheon featuring Eartha Kitt
  $500   $500   $0
Lifetime Assistance, Inc.
To help support the construction of an Assisted Technology Resource Room, providing assistance with communication, education, work and recreation through the use of modern technology
  $25,000   $25,000   $0
Little Theatre Film Society
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $1,000   $1,000   $0
Pittsford Carriage Association, Inc.
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $1,500   $1,500   $0
Rochester Grantmakers Forum
Renewal of Rochester Grantmakers Forum membership dues
  $3,900   $3,900   $0
Sojourner Hall for Women, Inc.
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $1,000   $1,000   $0
South Wedge Planning Committee
To support the 8th Annual Rochester River Challenge & City Living Celebration
  $500   $500   $0
Thompson Park Conservancy
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $2,000   $2,000   $0
Veterans Outreach Center, Inc.
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $1,000   $1,000   $0
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
To provide support for the 2005 WXXI Auction
  $3,000   $3,000   $0
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
Membership Development grant to help generate additional funds for WXXI
  $20,000   $0   $20,000
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
General Program Fund grant to provide local underwriting to programs within the Foundation's expressed areas of interest
  $20,000   $0   $20,000
Public Affairs Totals:   $123,225   $83,225   $40,000
Senior Citizens - 2004
Grantee and Purpose   Commitments   Paid
1/1 - 12/31
  Payable in
following year
American Red Cross, Rochester Chapter
To help fund a new emergency generator, which would enable the Red Cross to respond to large-scale disasters while continuing to provide meals to seniors in our community through the Meals on Wheels program
  $25,000   $25,000   $0
Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, Inc.
To help fund an emergency home repair grant program for very low-income senior citizens
  $7,500   $7,500   $0
Family Service of Rochester
To help fund kitchen equipment for Northfield Enriched Housing
  $10,000   $10,000   $0
George Eastman House
To support the Senior Citizens Matinee Series at the Dryden Theatre
  $10,000   $10,000   $0
LIFESPAN of Greater Rochester, Inc.
To help support the Geriatric Addictions Program
  $75,000   $75,000   $0
South Jefferson Chamber of Commerce
Christmas dinners for senior citizens
  $700   $700   $0
Senior Citizens Totals:   $128,200   $128,200   $0
Women - 2004
Grantee and Purpose   Commitments   Paid
1/1 - 12/31
  Payable in
following year
Planned Parenthood of the Rochester Syracuse Region, Inc.
To help renovate a building to replace the current clinic and to expand services in the northwest quadrant of Monroe County
  $75,000   $75,000   $0
Sojourner Hall for Women, Inc.
To help support the Director of Planning and Operations, a position created to improve the long-term viability of the agency and its programs
  $52,200   $52,200   $0
Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley, Inc.
Trustee Special Discretionary Grant
  $3,000   $3,000   $0
Women Totals:   $130,200   $130,200   $0
Report Totals:   $1,716,312   $1,716,312   $40,000

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