Jun

2021

Newsletter from the Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund

The Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund (GLEF) is delighted to announce the inaugural issue of our Newsletter. This issue highlights this year’s Awardees as well as ‘what are you doing now?’ updates from some of our past recipients. We are grateful to Robin Bridson, the Editor of the Newsletter and to Elsie Dedrick, the immediate past-GLEF President and current Alumni Committee Chair. Look for our fall issue which will include exciting updates and more news from our ‘Alums.’ The GLEF Newsletter can be downloaded from the Newsletter page of the GLEF website. - Neale Steiniger, GLEF President 2021-22

Author: Ed Barnas

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May

2021

The Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund announces winners of the 2021 Special Grant Awards

We are pleased to announce that the River Campus Libraries of the University of Rochester have been awarded a Special Grant of $500 in support of the digitization of Louise M. Slaughter Congressional Archive. In addition, NYS Women Inc. has been awarded a Special Grant of $250 in partial support of a workshop to be presented at their 12th Annual Conference in Waterloo, NY.

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May

2021

The Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund announces 2021 Fellowship Awardees

We are pleased to announce the names of the recipients of the 2021 Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund Fellowships for graduate study: Cassandra Rampino, Master of Social Work, New York University, Silver School of Social Work; Shannon Poulose, M.D., City University of New York School of Medicine; Jamila Thompson, Master of Science, Construction Administration, Columbia University; Kimberly Corrie, Masters in Psychiatric Social Work, University of Buffalo. A total of $6,000 in Fellowship Awards were presented to them to supplement education costs for the 2021-22 academic year. Through 2021, over $186,000 in GLEF Fellowship grants have been awarded to 162 women.

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May

2020

The Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund announces 2020 Fellowship Awardees

Author: Ed Barnas

We are pleased to announce the names of the recipients of the 2020 Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund Fellowships for graduate study:

Margarita Valkovskaya, Master of Public Administration, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Elaina Jean Mansley, Juris Doctor (JD), Brooklyn Law School

Madeline Collins, Master of Science, Social Work, Columbia University

Each Fellowship is in the amount of two thousand dollars ($2000).

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May

2019

The Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund announces 2019 Fellowship Awardees

We are pleased to announce the names of the recipients of the 2019 Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund Fellowships for graduate study: Kimberly Corrie, Masters Degree in Social Work, State University of New York at Buffalo; Pilar Ramirez Prensa, Master's Degree in Construction Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Christina Santini, Master of Professional Studies – Literacy Specialist (Birth-6), Manhattanville College. Each Fellowship is in the amount of two thousand dollars ($2000) and will be awarded at the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Conference of NYS Women, Inc. on June 8, 2019, Waterloo, NY.

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May

2019

The Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund announces 2019 Special Grant Award

We are pleased to announce that the NYS Women Inc. has been awarded a Special Grant of $500 in support of the Keynote Address by Kate D Mahoney at their 10thAnnual Conference in Waterloo, NY.

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May

2018

The Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund announces 2018 Special Grant Award Winner

The Buffalo Niagara Chapter of NYSWI. has been awarded a Special Grant in support of a commerative issue of the NIKE celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in New York State.

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We are pleased to announce that the Buffalo Niagara Chapter of NYS Women Inc. has been awarded a Special Grant of $357 in support of a commerative issue of the NIKE celebrating the 100^thAnniversary of Women’s Suffrage in New York State. Sue Mager and Ramona Gallagher accepted the Grant from Mary Ellen Morgan, Special Grants Chair, on behalf of the Buffalo Niagara Chapter. The Grant was presented at the 2018 Grace LeGendre Endowment Fund Awards Luncheon, May 19th, 2018, at the Hampton Inn Albany, New York.