Your Best Shot

The Albany District Links women's group presented $7,250 in checks to 12 community groups that deliver children and families services, money donated through its annual "Cookin' with Jazz" brunch in October.

Groups benefiting were:

Arts Partners of Albany, $1,250, summer arts program;

Wellspring of Saratoga Springs, $750, its domestic violence shelter;

Hamilton Hill Arts Center of Schenectady, $600, summer camp program;

Whitney Young Health Center of Albany, $600, for a dental van;

Capital District Keys for Kids, $500, music program;

Two Together of Albany, $500, a tutoring program;

Unity House of Troy, $500, a traveling summer day camp;

Bethesda House in Schenectady, $500, for its food pantry and soup kitchen;

Flora Kippins Foundation in Latham, $500, to aid a village in Ghana;

Friendship House Church in Schenectady, $400, for its youth enrichment program;

Underground Railroad History Project of Albany, $750, for its young abolitionists teen summer program;

The MoonCatcher Project of Schenectady, $400, to provide washable menstrual pads to poor girls in Africa, to help them stay in school.

The Links, Inc., is a national organization of nearly 14,000 African-American women including 44 members in the Albany chapter.