The Hagedorn Foundation’s mission is to support and promote social equity on Long Island. The foundation will embody the philanthropic interests Horace energetically embraced during his lifetime. Viewing philanthropy as a way to “be good, do good and look good,” Horace never shunned the spotlight.

The Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) is a home visitation program that supports positive parenting practices and helps parents learn how to stimulate their children's cognitive development. The Parent-Child Home Program is targeted at families that are challenged by poverty, isolation, and language, literacy, and cultural barriers…

What role do immigrants play in the New York State economy? How about in upstate New York? In the downstate suburbs? In New York City? What countries do immigrants come from? Where do they work? How well are they doing?

Hagedorn Video Conference Centers

The Hagedorn Video Conference Centers were centrally located on Long Island in Bayshore at the Family Service League -1444 5th Ave, Bay Shore, NY, Riverhead at the Family Service League - 208 Roanoke Ave, Riverhead, NY, and Hempstead at the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island - 1 Helen Keller Way #401, Hempstead, NY. They were central in bringing together grantees for collaboration on many issues, including Census, Immigration and Early Childhood development.

Every family with a newborn baby deserves comprehensive supports from the prenatal period to preschool. While the birth of a baby should be a joyous event and the first few years of a child’s life should be filled with hope and promise, parents usually find childbirth and child-rearing to be challenging experiences…

Click below for "Strengthening Long Island: The Economic Contributions of Immigrants to Nassau and Suffolk Counties (Adelphi University, October 2008)"

The Changing Profile of Long Island’s Economy: How US-born Workers Have Fared as Immigration Has Grown (Fiscal Policy Institute, November 2010)