Patch Picks: Local Non-Profit Organizations

Welcome to Patch's weekly feature called Patch Picks, highlighting editor and reader picks and lists of great local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, ways to spend a day off, and more. 

Today's Picks: Local Non-Profit Organizations

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Keep Islip Clean (KIC) is a not-for-profit, community service organization dedicated to a cleaner, prouder Islip Township. KIC, a certified affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., with hundreds of dedicated volunteers, work all year round picking up roadside litter, planting flowers, painting over graffiti, cleaning our wetlands and improving the quality of life for all 18 hamlets of Islip. Click here for more information.

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Instead of focusing exclusively on the holiday season to hold food and toy drives like many unfunded charitable organizations, founder Jennifer Gallozzi takes it one step further.  She uses Helping Hands to fill the gap of non-traditional drives throughout the entire year, which benefit more than 7,000 kids and 20 local charities. 

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The WIBCC's main goal is to be educate young woman and offer many programs for recovering woman in and around West Islip.  Patricia Licata, who runs the organization, often speaks about her desire to be out of business.  But she and the members are working hard to support local woman and their struggles. 

4.  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.

 5.  Visiting Norse 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.

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