Choice For All

Our friends at Citi Foundation just announced the recipients of their inaugural Global Innovation Challenge providing $25 million to 50 community organizations working to improve food security and strengthen the financial health of low-income families and communities around the world. We are truly excited to share Choice for All was selected as one of the recipients to accelerate our mission! Learn more about the challenge and the community organizations that are making a big impact on food security globally: citifoundation.com/challenge

Attention Roosevelt & Neighboring Families! We are hosting a Diaper Distribution Event next Tuesday, 9/19 at 12 PM with Allied Foundation as part of National Diaper Need Awareness Week! Distribution will be on a first come, first serve basis with small registration required on site. We hope to see you there!

Do you want to see the 2023 Breakfast of Champions event? Check out this photo album highlighting the beautiful ceremony honoring community champions across different disciplines making an impact on the lives of children across Long Island! Very special thank you to Creative Focus Designs Inc for the beautiful photos and serving as our media services partner!

Check out the 2023 Breakfast of Champions - An Annual Day of Giving & Honoring Champions at Choice for All at Gatsby on the Ocean at Jones Beach. We honored 22 champions across different fields and disciplines making an impact for children and families across Long Island. Thank you to Creative Focus Designs for serving as our media services partner.

We are excited to announce the Family Leadership Summit is back! This FREE event for families will be held on Saturday, January 21st at the Marriott Melville Long Island! Please join us for an interactive and inspiring day with parent leaders across Long Island and the country. We hope to see you there!

Register by 1/14 ➡️ cfafamilysummit.eventbrite.com!

From our entire team here at Choice for All, we wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!

We wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season!

Our small child-to-mentor ratio is important for our high impact tutoring model we provide at our Jumpstart Learning Center! Registration is open for Grades K - 8, with a high school drop in center by appointment. Join us where we ensure your child thrives!

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/choiceforall/cfaregistration

Special thank you to Nassau County Office of Youth Services, Ann Theodore Foundation and United Way of Long Island for your continued support.

600 people supported. 3 events. Gratitude for this season of thanks for our team, our partners and the heart of the community. Cheers to you and yours. 🧡

JOIN US TOMORROW!

We are co-hosting a Thanksgiving Food Distribution with Nassau County Office of Youth Services and Greater Second Baptist Church tomorrow, 11/21/2022. The event begins at 10 am located at 129 E Merrick Rd, Freeport NY! First come, first served!

We hope to see you all tomorrow at the Fall Festival with NYS Assemblymember Taylor Daring and Roosevelt UFSD at the Roosevelt High School!

UPDATE: The scheduled Summit for this Saturday, 11/12 has been postponed until January 2023. Thank you for your grace and we look forward to seeing you in the new year!

Thank you to the New York Association of School Psychologists - NYASP for honoring Choice For All with the 2022 Friend of Children Award for our work on the behalf of children and families! We were also selected as their annual conference's charity partner happening this week with all proceeds from their raffles and donations will be directly supporting our Jump Start Learning Center and educational advocacy training for parents of students with dis/abilities.

Thank you to our friends at Prevent Child Abuse New York for hosting the Home Visiting Coordination Initiative's 2022 Summit: Looking Back, Looking Forward! We are proud serve as the backbone organization for Long Island as part of this statewide iniative with PCANY. It was absolutely wonderful connecting with our partners in person across the state in building an effective and sustainable home visiting system!

We are honored to be a part of the hosted by ! Pictured here is Dana Faison, Director of Community Engagement and Jacob Dixon, CEO at the three day summit. Special thank you to Prosperity Now and the Long Island Racial Equity Donor Collaborative for their support!

We hope to see you tomorrow, 9/10/22 at The Back to School Fair at Roosevelt High School. We are proud to partner with Roosevelt Union Free School District , Senator Kevin Thomas and Senator John Brooks for this family and community event!

Congratulations to our CEO, Jacob Dixon, for completing his leadership development program with Culture of Health Leaders at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - We are so proud of you and your service to children and families. Together, we will continue to work boldly towards our vision where one day, all children will be healthy and thrive across Long Island, regardless of zip code.

Did you know August 14 is National Financial Awareness Day? In honor of this special day, check out a special collaborative video message created by Choice for All and Vision Street Research LLC with community members discussing the importance of financial awareness and announcing our upcoming launch of the Long Island Financial Empowerment Centers starting with Roosevelt and Wyandanch starting this fall!

Watch the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/GAfrsiQAn7c

Choice for All was honored to join the Juneteenth Family, Fun & Learning Day with Assemblywoman Taylor Darling and Uniondale School District today! We were grateful to sponsor the food with , a local MWBE, and Primetime Entertainment for DJ services.

Hello, Friends!

Have you purchased your tickets yet or consider sponsoring our Breakfast of Champions yet?

Visit us today! ➡️ choiceforall.org/champions or text "CHOICE" at 53-555.

We have a limited number of tickets left. Less than two weeks away - Sunday, 5/22/2022 at 2 PM at Gatsby on the Ocean looking over the beautiful Jones Beach!

Come join us and enjoy a beautiful brunch honoring champions for children and families across Long Island. We hope to see you there. 💛

Congratulations to our 2022 Education Champions!

Ms. Rochelle Gooding
Community Service Information Assistant/McKinney-Vento Liaison
Roosevelt Union Free School District

Ms. Angela Leconte Hudson
Principal, Ulysses Byas Elementary School
Roosevelt Union Free School District

To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Congratulations to our 2022 Collaboration Champions!

Health & Welfare Council of Long Island

Sarah Shin, Director
Molloy College Office of Experiential Learning

Lawrence Levy, Executive Dean
National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University

To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Congratulations to our 2022 Business Champion!

Imperial Diner (Freeport, NY)

To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Congratulations to our 2022 Children & Families Champions!

Child Care Council of Nassau, Inc.
Child Care Council of Suffolk, Inc.
Docs For Tots

To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Congratulations to our 2022 Government Champion!

Assemblywoman Taylor Darling
NYS Assembly - 18th District

To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Congratulations to our 2022 Social Justice Champions!

Erika Hill
Principal, Vision Street Research

Dan Lloyd
Founder & President, Minority Millennials, Inc.

To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Congratulations to our 2022 Community Champions!

Reverends Curtis & La Christa Brown
Free Will Baptist Church (Freeport, NY)

Pastor Arthur J. & Elder Brenda Mackey
Mount Sinai Baptist Church Cathedral (Roosevelt, NY)

To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Congratulations to our 2022 Youth Champions - Darylen, a first-year student at Morgan State University who served as one of our Junior Ambassadors and Senior Counselor of CFA Summer Enrichment Programs and Co-Chair of the CFA COVID-19 Youth Taskforce, and Saniyah, a senior at Hempstead High School who serves as the Assistant Manager of the Hempstead & Roosevelt Youth-Run Farmers Market. To learn more about the event, visit choiceforall.org/champions

Save The Date! Choice for All's Breakfast of Champions on 5/22/2022 at Gatsby On The Ocean - A Brunch Affair of Our Annual Day of Giving and Honoring Champions. Stay tuned for more announcements!

If your interested in learning more about Governor Kathy Hochul State of State and Budget address for this year, join Minority Millennials, Inc. and Choice for l this Thursday, February 10th at 7pm for a special virtual discussion with New York Secretary of State Robert J. Rodriguez - To RSVP, email [email protected].

Choice for All is excited to be a part of the United Parent Leaders Action Network Gathering 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona! Sharing time of planning, learning and engagement on key issues impacting children and families on a national level is key to advancing our work forward!

We wish you all a peaceful and wonderful holiday season. 🧡

In this season of gratitude, we are thankful for our seniors and families who are a part of our joint Restaurant Meals Program. The incredible partnership of Health & Welfare Council of Long Island helped expand our capacity to deliver over 100 hot meals directly to seniors aging in place and families temporarily displaced this Thanksgiving in Roosevelt, Freeport and surrounding neighborhoods and over 18,000 hot meals over the past 2 years. We are also grateful for the Friends of Choice for All for providing 40 turkeys and fixings to seniors in the neighborhood. Together, we can make a difference!

Hey Roosevelt and Hempstead! Our Market will be cancelled for this weekend. We will return next week - Roosevelt on Friday, 11/5 and Hempstead on Saturday, 11/6. We are coming back with your favorite items ready to go!

Important Announcement! We are postponing our Farmers Markets in Roosevelt and Hempstead this week to prepare for our annual collaborative back to school festival we hold annually with some of our County partners! We will be back next week at the same time and same locations!

Today is such a special day! We are celebrating Choice for All's 10th anniversary! It has been an amazing decade of service towards education, health and economic justice for children and families across Long Island and beyond! We are grateful for your support towards our vision where one day, all children will be healthy and thrive on Long Island, regardless of zip code.

To support us in honor of our 10th anniversary, visit us at https://www.choiceforall.org/support-us!

We are grateful for our amazing partner, Child Care Council of Nassau, Inc., for honoring our organization yesterday evening with the Champion for Children Community Partner Award! We look forward to working together to ensure quality, affordable child care for all across Nassau County and beyond, regardless of zip code.