Senate Resolution No. 1236

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

AMENDING SENATE RESOLUTION R2697 of 2024 a plan
setting forth an itemized list of grantees for a
certain appropriation for the 2024-25 state fiscal
year for additional grants in aid to certain school
districts, public libraries, public colleges and
universities, and education and arts not-for-profit
institutions. Notwithstanding any provision of law
to the contrary, the amounts appropriated herein may
be suballocated or transferred between other
agencies, including the state education department,
city university of New York, state university of New
York, and New York state council on the arts with
the approval of the temporary president of the
senate and the director of the budget.
Notwithstanding section 24 of the state finance law
or any provision of law to the contrary, funds from
this appropriation shall be allocated only pursuant
to a plan (i) approved by the temporary president of
the senate and the director of the budget which sets
forth either an itemized list of grantees with the
amount to be received by each, or the methodology
for allocating such appropriation, and (ii) which is
thereafter included in a senate resolution calling
for the expenditure of such funds, which resolution
must be approved by a majority vote of all members
elected to the senate upon a roll call vote

RESOLVED, That pursuant to and as required by money appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2024 and reappropriated
pursuant to section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2025 which enacts
the aid to localities local assistance account for additional grants
in aid to certain school districts, public libraries, public colleges
and universities, and education and arts not-for-profit institutions.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the amounts
appropriated herein may be suballocated or transferred between other
agencies, including the state education department, city university of
New York, state university of New York, and New York state council on
the arts with the approval of the temporary president of the senate
and the director of the budget. Notwithstanding section 24 of the
state finance law or any provision of law to the contrary, funds from
this appropriation shall be allocated only pursuant to a plan approved
by the temporary president of the senate and the director of the
budget which sets forth either an itemized list of grantees with the
amount to be received by each, or the methodology for allocating such
appropriation, and thereafter included in a senate resolution calling
for the expenditure of such funds, which resolution must be approved
by a majority vote of all members elected to the senate upon a roll
call vote, in accordance with the following schedule which shall
amend, remove from or add to the schedule originally approved in
Senate Resolution 2697 of 2024:

African American Men of Westchester

Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
AimHigh Empowerment Institute Inc. - Educational
Programming
15,000
American Debate League, INC. - Educational
Programming
10,000
American Debate League, INC. - Educational
Programming
10,000
American Museum of Natural History - Educational
Programming
10,000
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio, Inc. - Educational
Programming
20,000
Auburn Enlarged City School District
30,000
Baldwin Union Free School District
10,000
Ballet Hispanico of New York - Educational
Programming
10,000
Bard High School Early College Bronx
15,000
BioBus, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Garden City Union Free School District
10,000
Boys and Girls Club of New Rochelle,
Inc. - Educational Programming
20,000
Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Corporation - Educational
Programming
25,000
Brooklyn Public Library
10,000
Broome County Public Library - Four County
Library System
3,000
Building for the Arts NY, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Caribbean American Center of NY, Inc.
- Educational Programming
10,000
Caribbeing Inc. - Educational Programming
15,000
Carle Place Union Free School District
10,000
CEC Stuyvesant Cove, Inc. - Educational
Programming
25,000

Center for Educational Innovation -
Educational Programming
80,000
Central Square Library
15,000
Friends of Mount Vernon Arts
Recreation and Youth Programs, Inc.
- Educational Programming
15,000
City Year, Inc. - Educational Programming
20,000
City Year, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
City Year, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
City Year, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Common Threads I - Educational Programming
10,000
Community Studies, Incorporated -
Educational Programming
40,000
Cora Incorporated - Educational Programming
15,000
Cortland Free Library - Finger Lakes Library
System
3,000
High School for Construction Trades,
Engineering and Architecture
10,000
CURE100, Inc. - Educational Programming
25,000
Digital Girl, Inc. - Educational Programming
15,000
East Rochester Public Library
7,500
East Syracuse Free Library
10,000
Education Impact Foundation, Inc. -
Educational Programming
20,000
Empire State Aerosciences Museum -
Educational Programming
30,000
Entertainers for Education Alliance
Inc. - Educational Programming
20,000
Failte Care Corporation - Educational
Programming
10,000
Fairmount Community Library Association
10,000
Fairport Public Library
10,000
Family Service Society of Yonkers - Educational
Programming
15,000

Fencing in the Park Inc. - Educational
Programming
50,000
Fenton Free Library - Four County Library System

3,000
Freeport Union Free School District
10,000
Fulton Public Library
10,000
Generation Citizen, Inc. - Educational
Programming
5,000
Global Kids, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Global Kids, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Graham-Windham - Educational Programming
10,000
Greece Rotary Foundation, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Green-Wood Historic Fund Inc. - Educational
Programming
20,000
Groton Public Library - Finger Lakes Library
System
3,000
Hannibal Free Library
10,000
Hispanic Information &
Telecommunications Network Inc -
Educational Programming
20,000
Historic Cherry Hill - Educational Programming
35,000
Hot Bread Kitchen, Ltd. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Hot Bread Kitchen, Ltd. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. -
Educational Programming
50,000
Illuminart Productions - Educational Programming

10,000
iMentor, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Irondequoit Public Library
10,000
I.S. 109Q
15,000
Keep Your Change Inc. - Educational Programming
15,000

Kellogg Free Library - Finger Lakes Library
System
3,000
Kings County Tennis League Inc - Educational
Programming
20,000
Lamont Memorial Free Library - Finger Lakes
Library System
3,000
Lansing Community Library - Finger Lakes Library
System
3,000
Latino U College Access, Inc. - Educational
Programming
25,000
Light a Candle for Literacy Corp. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Lindenhurst Robotics Coalition - Educational
Programming
15,000
Lisle Free Library - Four County Library System
3,000
Liverpool Public Library
10,000
Long Island Council on Alcoholism Inc
- Educational Programming
20,000
Malverne Union Free School District
10,000
Mary L. Wilcox Memorial Library -
Four County Library System
3,000
Mid-Hudson Library System
30,000
Morningside Center for Teaching
Social Responsibility, Inc. -
Educational Programming
10,000
Mouse Inc - Educational Programming
10,000
Mouse Inc - Educational Programming
15,000
M.S. 67Q
15,000
New Rochelle Public Library
20,000
New York Junior Tennis League Inc -
Educational Programming
15,000
New York Public Library
25,000
New York Sun Works, Inc. - Educational
Programming
20,000
New York Sun Works, Inc. - Educational
Programming
50,000

New York Sun Works, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
New York Sun Works, Inc. - Educational
Programming
25,000
Newfield Public Library - Finger Lakes Library
System
3,000
Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated -
Educational Programming
25,000
NIA Community Services Network, Inc.
- Educational Programming
20,000
NIA Community Services Network, Inc.
- Educational Programming
55,000
North Brooklyn Coalition Against
Family Violence Inc - Educational Programming
10,000
New York Sun Works, Inc. - Educational
Programming
24,000
New York Sun Works, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of
Music & Art and Performing Arts
10,000
Professional Performing Arts High School
10,000
New York Public Library
45,000
Old Stone House of Brooklyn - Educational
Programming
20,000
One Stop Richmond Hill Community
Center, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Oswego School District Public Library
10,000
P.S. 150
10,000
P.S. 152
10,000
P.S. 153
10,000
P.S. 239
10,000
P.S. 290
10,000
P.S. 343
10,000
P.S. 361
10,000

P.S. 68
10,000
P.S. 81
10,000
P.S. 88Q
10,000
Partnership with Children, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Partnership with Children, Inc. - Educational
Programming
20,000
Peck Memorial Library - Finger Lakes Library
System
3,000
Penfield Public Library
10,000
Phillips Free Library
3,000
Pittsford Community Library
7,500
Police Athletic League Inc - Educational
Programming
20,000
Pound Ridge Library District
15,000
POWERPLAY NYC INC - Educational Programming
15,000
P.S. 102
10,000
P.S. 169Q
15,000
P.S. 193Q
15,000
P.S. 242Q
15,000
P.S. 305
10,000
P.S. 58
10,000
P.S. 91
10,000
P.S. 94Q
15,000
Puerto Rican Coalition for a Better
Community Inc. - Educational
Programming
15,000
Queens Borough Public Library
50,000
Queens Community House, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Community Education Council District 27
25,000
Queens County Chamber of Commerce

Foundation, Inc - Educational
Programming
10,000
Queens Borough Public Library - Elmhurst Branch
25,000
Queens Borough Public Library - Maspeth Branch
25,000
Queens Borough Public Library - Ridgewood Branch

25,000
Queens Borough Public Library - Woodside Branch
25,000
Queens Borough Public Library
40,000
Queens Borough Public Library
10,000
Queens Borough Public Library
35,000
Quest Youth Organization, Inc. - Educational
Programming
15,000
Ramapo Catskill Library System
125,000
Ramapo Catskill Library System
10,000
Read Alliance, Inc - Educational Programming
15,000
Renaissance Youth Center - Educational
Programming
10,000
Richmond Hill High School
10,000
The Richmond Hill Historical Society,
Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Rising Tide Effect Inc - Educational Programming

11,000
Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc -
Educational Programming
70,000
Rochester City School District - The Restorative
H.U.B.
60,000
Rochester Education Foundation, Inc.
- Educational Programming
100,000
Rochester Public Library
10,000
Rockville Centre Union Free School District
10,000
Roosevelt Union Free School District
22,500
Social Enterprise and Training
Center, Inc. - Educational Programming
25,000
Society of the Third Street Music
School Settlement Inc - Educational

Programming
10,000
Solvay Public Library
10,000
South End Neighborhood Tutors, Inc. -
Educational Programming
20,000
Southeastern NY Library Resources
Council - Educational Programming
30,000
STEM Alliance of
Larchmont-Mamaroneck, Inc (DBA The
Stem Alliance) - Educational Programming
25,000
STEM Leadership Center Inc. - Educational
Programming
20,000
STEM Leadership Center Inc. - Educational
Programming
25,000
Student Leadership Network, Inc.
a/k/a CollegeBound Initiative -
Educational Programming
10,000
Support Connection Inc - Educational Programming

50,000
Swim Strong Foundation, Inc. - Educational
Programming
15,000
The Blue Bus Project,Inc - Educational
Programming
10,000
Blue Card, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Blue Card, Inc. - Educational Programming
20,000
The Bronx County Historical Society -
Educational Programming
15,000
The Bronx Museum of the Arts - Educational
Programming
20,000
The Midtown Management Group, Inc. -
Educational Programming
50,000
The Midtown Management Group, Inc. -
Educational Programming
10,000
New York Historical Society - Educational
Programming
15,000
The New York Public Library
45,000
The New York Public Library
45,000

Southworth Library Association -
Finger Lakes Library System
3,000
Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew
Association - Educational Programming
40,000
Tompkins County Public Library -
Finger Lakes Library System
3,000
Ulysses Philomathic Library - Finger Lakes
Library System
3,000
Uniondale Union Free School District
22,500
Phoenix Public Library
10,000
Volunteers For Springfield Park, Inc.
- Educational Programming
10,000
Webster Public Library - Monroe County Library
System
10,000
West Hempstead Union Free School District
10,000
Westbury Union Free School District
10,000
White Plains Public Library
35,000
White Plains City School District
15,000
Wiz Kids Books B4 Basketball Program
- Educational Programming
15,000
Xposure Foundation Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Yaffed, Inc. - Educational Programming
50,000
Young Men's Christian Association of
Greater New York, McBurney Branch -
Educational Programming
25,000
Young Men's Christian Association of
Greater New York, Vanderbilt Branch
- Educational Programming
25,000
Fund for the City of New York, Inc. -
Zone 126 - Educational Programming
10,000
American Debate League Inc - Educational
Programming
10,000
Bais Shifra Inc. - Educational Programming
50,000
Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan Inc.
(d.b.a. Gotham Park) - Educational
Programming
15,000

Buffalo String Works, Inc. - Educational
Programming
20,000
Common Threads I - Educational Programming
25,000
Congregation Kehilas Belz U.S.A. Inc.
- Educational Programming
25,000
Educational Alliance, Inc. (The) - Educational
Programming
10,000
Educational Video Center Inc - Educational
Programming
10,000
Empower My Hood Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Literacy Academy Collective Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Loisaida Enterprises Corporation -
Educational Programming
10,000
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens
Inc - Educational Programming
10,000
Lower East Side Girls Club - Educational
Programming
10,000
Community Education Council District 29
20,000
Outstanding Renewal Enterprises Inc
(d.b.a. Lower East Side Ecology
Center) - Educational Programming
10,000
Read Alliance, Inc - Educational Programming
10,000
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship, Inc. -
Educational Programming
90,000
Simha Organization, Inc. - Educational
Programming
15,000
Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth, Inc -
Educational Programming
10,000
The Door - A Center of Alternatives,
Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Together We Are - Educational Programming
45,000
Vision Urbana Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Mid Hudson Pattern for Progress Inc.
(" Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress") -
Educational Programming
50,000

Suballocate to the New York State
Council on the Arts:
Albany Center Galleries Inc
35,000
Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts Inc
20,000
Big Apple Leadership Academy for the Arts Inc
25,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
20,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
10,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
20,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
25,000
Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music
10,000
Brooklyn Public Library
25,000
Building for the Arts NY, Inc.
10,000
Carnegie Hall Corporation
25,000
Center for Law and Justice Inc
10,000
Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc.
10,000
Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc.
25,000
Chashama Inc.
10,000
Children's Museum of Oswego
10,000
Civic Ensemble, Inc.
20,000
CNY Arts Center, Inc.
10,000
Community Music School of Buffalo
15,000
Culture Lab LIC Inc.
10,000
El Batey Inc.
10,000
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center - Lucy
Moses School for Music and Dance
10,000
Foundation for Filipino Artists, Inc.
20,000
Harlem One Stop Inc.
10,000
Institute of the Black World 21St Century, Inc.
15,000
Inwood Art Works, Inc.
15,000
Jazzmobile Inc
20,000

Latino Film Market Inc
10,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
25,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
10,000
LUMA Arts Initiative, Inc.
10,000
Mamaroneck Community Chorus Inc
15,000
Museum of the City of New York (MCNY)
20,000
American Museum of the Moving Image
30,000
New York City AIDS Memorial, Inc.
10,000
New York City Chess Services Inc.
10,000
New York Shakespeare Festival
10,000
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance
10,000
Orchestrating Dreams, Inc.
10,000
Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.
10,000
Red Hook Art Project, Inc.
20,000
Revolutionary Westchester 250 Inc.
15,000
Sacred Music Chorale of Richmond Hill, Inc.
16,000
Salvatore Larussa Dance Company, Inc.
10,000
Bronx Opera Company Inc
10,000
Daisy Joplin Foundation
25,000
The Jazz Drama Program
15,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc
10,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc
10,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc
5,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc
30,000
The National Arts Club, Inc.
10,000
The Picture House Regional Film Center, Inc.
15,000
Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
20,000
TropicalFete, Inc.
15,000
Uptown Stories, Inc.
15,000

Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens Inc
10,000
Visual Arts Research & Resource
Center Relating to the Caribbean
15,000
Black Spectrum Theatre Company Inc. Roy Wilkins
Park
20,000
Buffalo Arts and Technology Center, Inc.
30,000
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
50,000
Musicalfare Theater Company Inc
20,000
Road Less Traveled Productions Ltd.
15,000
ArtsWestchester, Inc.
100,000
Fine Arts Orchestral Society of Yonkers Inc
15,000
Friends of the Mozartina Musical Arts
Conservatory Inc
50,000
Hudson River Museum of Westchester
100,000
Visual Arts Research and Resource
Center Relating to the Caribbean
50,000
Yonkers Hispanic Cultural Foundation, Inc.
15,000

Suballocate to the City University of New York:
CUNY Research Foundation on behalf of
Medgar Evers College - Center of
Law and Social Justice
15,000
York College - Department of Teacher Education's
Maker Space
15,000