Nonprofit social-service agencies like the Five Towns Community Center were facing steep funding cuts by Nassau County as late as Monday night.
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By Erik Hawkins and Mary Malloy
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12/7/16
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Residents of communities from across the region descended on Eisenhower Park last Saturday to support Long Island’s leading hunger-relief charity: Island Harvest Food Bank. Sponsored by the …
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By Julie Mansmann
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6/23/16
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An East Meadowite is now a leader within a major fundraising group on Long Island. Michael Pfeiffer, the first-ever executive director for Nassau’s Habitat for Humanity, was installed to the …
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/11/16
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One of Long Island’s largest nonprofit substance-abuse treatment agencies received three grants this winter that officials said will help them teach young people about the dire consequences of …
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By Julie Mansmann
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1/21/15
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“I don’t know,” replied Louisa Rodriguez, 44, when HOPEFitness Sports founder H.L. Greenberg asked whether she wanted to get out of her wheelchair and onto a stationary bicycle at …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/5/14
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Asked what makes Island Harvest so successful, its president and CEO, Randi Shubin Dresner, answered with a single word: “Passion.”
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By David Weingrad
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12/22/12
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The East Meadow Soccer Club’s U11 Girls Travel Program (for children born between Aug. 1, 1999 and July 31, 2000) is looking to create a third team that will play in a lower division -- 5, 6 or 7 -- of the Long Island Junior Soccer League, to compliment its two upper division teams that now play in Divisions 1 and 3. The GU11 program will hold its final tryout of 2010 on Sunday, June 13, at 5:30 p.m.
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6/9/10
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