H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths co-founder Heather Butts along with Christopher Wood, Chris Rivera, and Piotr Marczewiski ran the ING NYC Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. Our team raised $2,827. H.E.A.L.T.H. for Youths was named an official ING NYC Marathon 2011 charity. This was our first year participating. A big thank you to our runners and supporters!

The New York Council of Nonprofits, Inc. (NYCON) is pleased to announce the second and final round of Strengthening Communities Fund (SCF) grant recipients. NYCON received a nationally competitive $1,000,000 two-year stimulus grant from the Strengthening Communities Fund (SCF) Nonprofit Capacity Building program created and funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. NYCON has granted a total of $600,000 in funding awards to 31 Project Partners. The grants were made during two competitive funding rounds to community and faith-based nonprofits in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx who are providing services that are vital to the economic recovery efforts. H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths was name a Project Partner.

Janine Flores ‘12SJC, a junior biology major in St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was recently chosen to be part of the inaugural class of Obama Scholars – an award entirely funded by President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize award. Students receiving this prestigious award will have part of their education paid for from the $125,000 gift President Barack Obama made to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). HSF then selected twelve Obama Scholars based on essays they wrote about their interest in teaching science-related fields.