There will be a dedicated room for pediatrics when construction is completed on the intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center (Batavia, NY). The Michael Napoleone Memorial Foundation donated $25,000 to this cause. In April 2024, Lori Aratari (Executive Director-UMMC Foundation) gave some of our Board members a tour of the construction area and reviewed the design plans.
Foundation representatives delivered donations to the Child Life dept. at Golisano’s in Rochester.
The Napoleone Foundation’s third installment of its pledge for UMMC’s Pediatric ICU was presented to Lori Aratari, UMMC Foundation Director.
Pictured with her are our board members Danielle Rotondo, Ellen Wierzba DellaPenna, and Mark Napoleone.
The Board of Directors of the Michael Napoleone Memorial Foundation is excited to announce the eleven recipients of the 2019-2020 winter cycle of Community Youth Grant Awards.
Grants have been awarded to the following organizations for their commitment to facilitating community youth activities for children under age 18 in the Western New York region:
Empowered Arrow (LeRoy)
Kindness Club (Batavia)
The Medina Skate Society
St. Vincent DePaul (Lockport)
RRH United Memorial Medical Center
4-H Program Cornell Cooperative Extension
Warsaw Junior Tigers
St. Joseph Regional School (click here for details)
Batavia Baseball Program
Batavia Little League
Batavia Softball
St. Joe’s students in Batavia enjoying some activities in the Maker Space.
Presentation of checks to Batavia High’s Girls Softball and Boys Baseball teams by Napoleone Foundation Directors Donna Kabel, Ann Marie Suttell, Ellen DellaPenna and Diane Hale.
Jennifer Trifthauser, Secretary of the Napoleone Board of Directors, presents Don Hickel a grant check for Empowered Arrow, a new program at LeRoy Jr. Sr. High School.
Laurie Napoleone is pictured with staff and students of the Batavia City School District receiving a $500 grant check for the Jackson School Kindness Club.
The Medina Skate Society received a $1,000 grant from the Michael Napoleone Memorial Foundation for assistance with funding for the Medina Skate Park. Pictured are Alex Feig, Terri Nelson, Laurie Napoleone and Sarah Janurf Powell.
Check out the Foundation’s Facebook page to see more photos of our recent hospital visits!
December 16th: Making spirits bright at Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo, delivering Childlife wishlist gifts-wagons, playmats, portable DVD players, and toys donated from the Health Careers Academy students. It’s always an honor to present these items.
December 17th was drop off day at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester. We took Childlife wishlist items and some of the toys donated by the Health Careers Academy students!! Bringing some light this Christmas Season...
Here is Allison Della Penna, who is a Childlife Specialist at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. She shopped on behalf of the Napoleone Foundation to purchase needed items for their Childlife wishlist, then delivered them to the Syracuse facility.
The Board of Directors of the Michael Napoleone Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 summer cycle of Community Youth Grant Awards.
These grants realize one of three mission priorities established by the Foundation--”to assist youth organizations and youth athletics.”
Grants have been awarded to the following organizations for their commitment to facilitating community youth activities for children under age 18 in the Western New York region:
Batavia Ramparts Youth Hockey $850
KEYS Program $1,000
Orleans County 4H Award Trips $700
YMCA Challenger Program $1,000
Foundation Board Member Jeff Klips (left) presenting a check for $700 to Robert Batt, representing the Orleans County Cornell Cooperative Extension 4H program.
A check being presented to the Genesee County YMCA Challenger Program for $1,000.
L to R: Board Member Ellen DellaPenna, YMCA Challenger & Aquatics Coordinator Megan Boring, Board Members Donna Kabel and Diane Hale
These photos show plaques which are on display at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, recognizing the Foundation’s contribution to the project.
Left to Right: Graduate Student Tyler Couch, MS, Graduate Student Jayme Olsen, MS, and Postdoctoral Researcher Zachary Murphy, PhD. Jayme works in the lab of Dr. James Palis (MD). Tyler and Zachary work in the lab of Dr. Laurie Steiner (MD).
This Li-Cor chemiluminescent blot scanner was donated by the Napoleone Foundation to the University of Rochester Center for Pediatric Biomedical Research. It is used to investigate and quantitate specific proteins in cell samples. The team previously used film and a darkroom with multiple pictures in order to get these data, and the results were not as sensitive as this technology achieves. Now they obtain the data electronically with this scanner/detector.
The Board of Directors of the Michael Napoleone Memorial Foundation is excited to announce the recipients of the 2018-2019 winter cycle of Community Youth Grant Awards.
Grants have been awarded to the following organizations for their commitment to facilitating community youth activities for children under age 18 in the Western New York region:
Warsaw Junior Tigers Youth Football Program: $1,600
Batavia Middle School -- “B Squad” Running Program: $1,100 (PICTURED)
St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. John the Baptist Church “Kids to Camp” Program: $1,000
Batavia Girls Fastpitch Softball/Batavia Stingers: $1,500
Genesee County Business/Education Alliance Summer Career Exploration Camps: $1,000
The Napoleone Foundation donated a new data analysis workstation to the University of Rochester’s Center for Pediatric Biomedical Research. This picture shows research technician Kate Fegan, M.S. performing analysis of flow cytometry data on the equipment. Learning, over her shoulder, is MD/PhD student Jerry Saunders II, M.S. Both work in the lab headed by Dr. James Palis. This new workstation is more than 10X faster than the previous machine in use, which also would sometimes crash during complex analyses. These analyses allow the team to compare and contrast the expression of multiple proteins on the cell surface, and within cells that constitute complex populations representing normal and disease conditions.