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Manhasset, NY, April 24,
2001 ? Putt-ing Families First, a fundraising coalition to benefit three
local not-for-profit agencies including the Middle Country Library
Foundation Family Place, the National Association of Mothers’ Centers,
and the Parent-Child Home Program, has raised more than $85,000 in
corporate sponsorships to date. The group’s annual golf outing, which
will be held June 4, 2001 at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in
Stony Brook, is expected to raise in excess of $120,000.
"Putt-ing Families
First joins forces each year to raise money and awareness for family
support organizations throughout Long Island," said Karen Lutz,
co-chair of Putt-ing Families First and executive vice-president of
branch banking at EAB. "These not-for-profit organizations play a
critical role in the development and growth of young children and offer
much-needed support to struggling families. This annual event gives us a
forum to support such organizations and honor local individuals and
their families for their commitment to family life and charitable
organizations."
This year’s Putt-ing
Families First honorees are Joseph and John Mincone of Mincone &
Mincone PC and Darrell Reed, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
of EDO Corporation. The honorees are known for their generous
humanitarian and philanthropic efforts on behalf of many Long Island
not-for-profits, including the Developmental Disabilities Institute, the
Guide Dog Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Association, Make-A-Wish
Foundation, National Cancer Research Foundation, the United Way of Long
Island, Victory Housing Development Fund Company, among others.
Local corporations and
business have already pledged their support for this year’s event.
Tournament sponsors donating $10,000 are Computer Associates, Nortel
Networks and the Rauch Foundation. Local corporations that have pledged
$5,000 to the campaign include EAB, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Lehr
Construction, Nastasi Associates, Fleet, EDO, Mincone & Mincone PC,
and Forrest Electric. Those that pledging $3,500 include VVA, Inc., King
Kullen, Mellon Bank and JP Morgan. All money raised will be equally
donated to the three non-profit parent organizations, benefiting Long
Island families in need.
Expanding the traditional
role of children’s services, the Family Place project, a program of
the Middle Country Library Foundation, supports the idea that libraries
can serve as centers for early childhood information, parent education,
emergent literacy, socialization, and family support. Modeled after a
20-year-old program at Middle Country Public Library, Family Place
promotes the Library’s role in helping parents to prepare their
children for reading and school success.
Supporting mothers and
families through peer discussion and a non-judgmental exchange of
information, the National Association of Mothers’ Center (NAMC) has
been helping moms on the Island and across the country, develop local
family support and resource centers in their communities for more than
25 years. Mothers’ Centers start our future generations off on the
right track.
The Parent-Child Home
Program (PCHP) is an innovative, home-based literacy and parenting
program enabling families challenged by poverty, limited educational
opportunities and language barriers to prepare their two- and
three-year-old children to succeed in school. Literacy skills and school
success are rooted in early exposure to language through conversation
and reading. By increasing verbal interaction between parents and
children, the Parent-Child Home Program prepares children to enter
school ready to succeed. Founded on Long Island 30 years ago and
replicated nationally and internationally, PCHP has a proven track
record.
For more information email info@motherscenter.org
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