One of our grantees, StreetSquash has been featured in the New York Times for their work in helping underserved youth get into college! StreetSquash uses Squash as a vehicle for assisting youth in developing skills in setting and accomplishing goals, determination, and time management. The intensive program requires that students show up for a rigorous… Read more

As reported by the Post Chronicle, The Feinstein Institute in Manhasset, N.Y. will collaborate with Sweden’s Karolinska Institute in exchanging graduates for post-doctoral research. The graduate students from both programs are medical doctors who have obtained a doctoral degree in research. This partnership means that students from either institute will have the ability to study… Read more

The Elmezzi Foundation has awarded Queens Library a grant for $6 million to be dispersed over the next ten years in order to establish the Jeanne Elmezzi Adult Learning Center (ALC) at the Long Island City Queens Library branch. Our grant to them will be the largest they have ever received from a single donor… Read more

The Elmezzi Foundation has partnered with North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in order to establish a graduate school for physician scientists. With this endowment we will be able to further our commitment to advancing medical research while providing superb educational resources for select PhD candidates at no cost to them. “Through the foundation’s generous… Read more

At the Elmezzi Foundation, we value education and the role it plays in providing folks with the necessary tools for self-sufficiency improving their lives. That’s why we have decided to fund an “I Have A Dream” Foundation chapter in Queens from the Ravenswood houses. We will be funding the IHDF-NY Ravenswood II program for more… Read more