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2025 Winners

STONY BROOK Innovation Award GURWIN HEALTHCARE
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Social Impact Award CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Winner of the 2025 Flagstar Bank Innovation Imagine Award. Since 1988 Gurwin Healthcare System has been

Winner of the 2025 Cerini and Associates Social Impact Imagine Award. At Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, dedicated to the well-being of frail, elderly and medically complex older adults, combining clinical excellence
teams of pediatric specialists—doctors, nurses, scientists, technicians, and others—are working together with compassionate, person-centric care through our many services and programs. The Gurwin team is
to create a better future for children. A future in which rapid whole genomic sequencing of critically ill united by a desire to make a positive difference in the lives of older adults, and is imbued with a commitment
newborns can expedite diagnosis for life-threatening conditions. Where early diagnosis of Autism and related to care for every resident as if they are their very own family members, whether in our skilled nursing and
neurodevelopmental disabilities enables families to pursue effective interventions. Where teams are making rehabilitation centers, our adult day care and home care programs, or our assisted living and independent
groundbreaking discoveries in therapies for children with HIV, kidney disease, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and fetal living communities.
lung problems and more.

SCOTT J. BEIGEL
Leadership Excellence Award MEMORIAL FUND Hall of Fame Award LGBT NETWORK

Winner of the 2025 Certilman Balin Leadership Imagine Award. Linda Beigel Schulman established the Scott J.
Beigel Memorial Fund on February 16, 2018, two days after my son Scott was murdered in the Parkland High Recipient of the 2025 Jovia Financial Credit Union Hall of Fame Imagine Award. The LGBT Network is a non-
School massacre. Scott dedicated his life to educating and mentoring children. The SJBMF embodies Scott’s profit organization that serves as a home and a voice for LGBT people, their families, and support systems
passion for camp and his unwavering belief in the potential of every child. across Long Island and Queens. Through its community centers, advocacy efforts, and social change initiatives,
the LGBT Network creates safe spaces where LGBT people can LIVE, LEARN, WORK, PLAY, and PRAY.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, THE HECKSCHER
& Accessibility (DEIA) Award MUSEUM OF ART Fan Favorite Award WE CONNECT THE DOTS

Winner of the 2025 The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA) Award Sponsored By Chase For
Business Imagine Award. The Heckscher Museum of Art gratefully serves as a forum for community where Winner of the 2025 Nerds That Care Fan Favorite Imagine Award. We Connect The Dots, Inc. is a nonprofit
sharing and educating lead to better understanding and empathy. Our mission is to create opportunities organization dedicated to empowering individuals, particularly those from underrepresented and underserved
for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to communities, by igniting passion and knowledge in modern-day skills such as coding, cybersecurity, and
the present, and creates diverse possibilities for the future. Located in the heart of Huntington Village, the business automation. Our mission focuses on bridging the gap between education and the demands of
Museum was founded in 1920 by philanthropists Anna and August Heckscher, who believed individuals living the 21st-century workforce through robust partnerships with community leaders, educational institutions,
outside urban areas, should have equal access to experience and learn from great art. government agencies, and industry pioneers.

DANCING CLASSROOMS
Arts & Culture Award LONG ISLAND Rising Star Award SIBSPLACE INC
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Winner of the 2025 Claire Friedlander Family Foundation Arts & Culture Imagine Award. In 2007 CoDanceCo Winner of the 2025 Vanguard Benefits Rising Star Imagine Award. SIBSPlace (Survivorship in Brothers and
(CDC) received a Dana Foundation grant to become a licensed network affiliate site for Pierre Dulaine’s Sisters) is a free program serving well children ages 5-17, with a sibling with cancer or another devastating
acclaimed Dancing Classrooms™ (DC) arts-in-education program. CDC’s mission, dba Dancing Classrooms medical illness, a parent with a cancer diagnosis and child coping with the death of a sibling or parent.
Long Island (DCLI), is to foster the physical, social-emotional, and creative health of youth and adults through SIBSPlace provides guided therapeutic peer support to help children develop skills to cope with the emotional
the art of dance. impact of a loved one’s medical diagnosis or loss.

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