B. Thomas Golisano Life Enhancement Fund

With generous financial support from Tom Golisano, the B. Thomas Golisano Life Enhancement Fund was created within the Future Care Planning Services Third Party Community Pooled Trust to provide an enrichment opportunity for upstate New Yorkers with disabilities and special needs.

Life Enhancement Funds may be used to help offset the cost of a wide range of goods and/or services intended to enhance the quality of life for a person with a disability. The identified needs must be for the sole benefit of the beneficiary and include goods or services related to the beneficiary’s living environment.

The Golisano Life Enhancement Fund is accepting applications for the 2025 calendar year.

Eligibility:

The Fund welcomes applications from professionals affiliated with charitable or other service organizations on behalf of individual beneficiaries.

• Beneficiaries must be 18 or older and have a disability as defined by the Social Security Administration.

• Beneficiaries must apply through a charitable or other service organization.

• Beneficiaries must live in upstate New York: The Greater Rochester/Finger Lakes region, East to Syracuse and West to Buffalo, South to Pennsylvania border.

• Beneficiaries must live in an independent setting. Not in a certified residential setting.

• Beneficiaries are eligible for one gift per calendar year.

• Gifts may be awarded up to $500.

• Gifts will be made payable directly to the requesting agency (charitable or other service organization) to reimburse the agency for the approved purchase on behalf of the beneficiary.

• Requested item (s) have not previously been purchased and paid for by another person or entity.

Application

Applications are available here.