Non-Profits in the Area

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You may not know this but there are a number of non-profit organizations in the Dix Hills area. We couldn't include them all, but here are a few:

The List: Dix Hills-Area Non-Profit Organizations

REACH CYA - A community-centered non-profit organization providing social, recreational, informational, educational and advocacy programs for children, youth and families of Commack and Half Hollow Hills. REACH CYA is funded in part by Town of Huntington Youth Bureau, Townwide Fund of Huntington and private contributions. For more information, click here: 

Relay for Life of Half Hollow Hills New York - Join others around the globe as part of this worldwide movement to end cancer. Join them at HHH High School East on Sunday, June 5, 2011. The next HHH committee meeting is on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at Fran Greenspan Memorial Center. They currently need an Event Development chair. If you are interested, click here to learn more about what the Event Development chair does, or email the Event Coordinator, Jaime Pacheco at jaime.pacheco@cancer.org for more information. All interested should try to attend this meeting! For more information, click here.

Madonna Heights - For more than 45 years, Madonna Heights has helped adolescent girls, women and families overcome the devastating effects of poverty, neglect and abuse. Madonna Heights' campus offers a structured, therapeutic setting for adolescent girls and young women facing a variety of behavioral, social or mental challenges. Their residential treatment center offers girls 24-hour care, should they need it. They also offer a school for girls in grades 7 through 12. For more information, click here.

A Gift From Alexa -  When they learned their daughter Alexa was diagnosed with autism in February 2003, they discovered immediately that helping their child would be a mammoth challenge. Programs were sparse, and the costs were high. So they formed A Gift From Alexa to provide financial resources to successful existing programs as well as financial support directly to families who can not afford the additional expenses that come with having a disabled child. They would also like to raise money to build a residential facility for adults. For more information, click here.

Here are two (among many) Suffolk County non-profits:

Cornell Cooperative Extension – The mission of the Cornell Cooperative Extension educational system is to enable people to improve their lives and communities through partnerships that put experience and research knowledge to work. In Suffolk County, specific program areas are dedicated to the achievement of this mission according to the particular environmental, industrial and social aspects of the county. For more information, click here. 

Visiting Nurse Service & Hospice – Incorporated in 1952, Visiting Nurse Service & Hospice of Suffolk is committed to providing the best possible care to patients without regard to race, religion, age, sex or ability to pay. As a freestanding, not-for-profit, community-based home health care and hospice agency, Visiting Nurse Service & Hospice of Suffolk responds to community needs as they arise, maintaining a tradition of charitable and compassionate care in the home, as well as providing community service activities such as blood drives, bereavement support, and flu clinics. For more information, click here.