School, 3 organizations, receive grants from bank
SI Bank & Trust Foundation donates
$180,000 to PS 57 and some of its programs
Staten Island Advance - Tuesday, February 14, 2006
SI Bank & Trust Foundation presented grant awards
totaling $180,000 to PS 57 and three organizations that provide
services and programs at the school: The Staten Island YMCA, the
Staten Island Mental Health Society and the College of Staten
Island.
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were presented by Harry P. Doherty, chairman and president of the SI
Bank & Trust Foundation, to Frank Campisi, principal of PS 57, and
Doris Buraczynski, representative of PS 57's 21st Century Art Center
Afterschool Program; Libby Traynor, representative of Staten Island
Mental Health Society, and Georgia Landrum, representative of
Strategies for Success SEEK Program of CSI. (The YMCA was not
represented.)
The funds will be used to enhance the programs that
the organizations provide to students at PS 57.
The school itself received a grant of $50,000 that
will be used to continue the afterschool program. Begun in 2001, it
provides a safe and supervised environment that prepares 90 students
in third, fourth and fifth grades for the standards-based testing in
language arts, mathematics and science.
The YMCA received a grant of $50,000 to support its
School Success Family Center. Part of the YMCA's Virtual Y Program,
the center provides parents and children with literacy and
recreational programs.
A $50,000 grant to the Staten Island Mental Health
Society will be the third payment of a $250,000, five-year grant for
a New York state-approved satellite mental health clinic at PS 57.
The College of Staten Island's $30,000 grant will be
used for the college's Strategies for Success Program. Now in its
second year and run out of PS 57, the program partners 11 CSI
students and children who receive 27 weeks' tutoring in math,
language arts, science and social studies.
By ADVANCE STAFF REPORT
Reprinted here with permission
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