
Founded in 1999, COPE is a grief and healing organization helping parents, siblings and families living with the loss of a child. Started by bereaved parents, COPE offers professionally-led support groups, a grief-support phoneline, and healing workshops, including yoga, meditation, art, movement, music, and journaling.
Since 2012, COPE supports grieving children and teens who have lost a loved one with its annual bereavement camp, a free summer weekend experience for kids and their families. Traumatic loss and grief take a physical and emotional toll on survivors.​ Our COPE families learn they are not alone and gain the essential healing tools that help them cope with their grief.
Learn more at www.copefoundation.org​
25th ANNIVERSARY

MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2025
GOLF COMMITTEE & EVENT PLANNING
Golf Committee
BILL SLOVIN
HAL STEIN
Co-Chairs
PATTY COCCHIARELLI
DONNA COOPERMAN
SCOTT HABER
LILLY JULIEN
SPENCER JULIEN
LARRY MERGENTINE
DOUGLAS NEWTON
KAREN NEWTON
LYNNE SLOVIN
Golf Event Planning
LARRY BATTAGLIA
President
CHRISTINE BATTAGLIA
Vice-President
JASMIN ZHENG
Event Coordinator
BRETT GUGEL
Event Coordinator
HONOREES
HONOREES
Happy Jack & Riley’s Dance
David & Ali Nathan

Happy Jack is a heartfelt platform dedicated to raising awareness and funds for mental health, established by the late Jack Nathan. Jack created art on apparel to manage his depression and anxiety and to let others know that they were not alone. Jack donated his first $1,000 dollars to the Child Mind Institute after his first day of sales.Tragically, Jack passed at the age of 19, on July 3rd 2020, due to an accidental fentanyl poisoning. shortly after launching Happy Jack World. His family continues to share Jack's artwork, images, words of support and more to honor his legacy, and to continue his mission and vision. Jack was a survivor never a victim and together we can make this world a better place for those struggling with mental health.
Riley’s Dance was created to honor and remember the unique and special life of our five-year-old daughter, Riley Kogen, whom we lost too soon.
Riley gave the gift of life to two women who received her kidneys. Her gift saved not only two people, but their entire families as well. This final act of love has inspired us to continue supporting organ and tissue donation and transplantation.
Riley was the most gentle and kind-hearted little girl to ever walk on this earth. Her smile alone could light up the room. She had the most infectious laugh and the brightest blue eyes you had ever seen. She lived for her friends, family, and, most of all, her little brother Connor. She loved to spend her afternoons playing dress up, hula-hooping, and dancing. Riley died two days after her 5th birthday. We will forever celebrate her life as if she was still here. She impacted all that knew her, and her memory will live on in all of us.
HONOREE
Lola Jayne Foundation
Chris & Mary White

The night we lost Lola, we walked away from the hospital with nothing but a memory box of her painted handprints. It was shocking to us as parents that we didn’t get a phone call from the hospital to check in on us or offer some type of mental support. It quickly became clear to us that there is a lack of resources for bereaved families. Thankfully, a local mother who had been through the same trauma reached out to us and recommended a grief counselor and a group for bereaved parents that we credit for saving our lives. Without this support, the responsibility of identifying and seeking out these necessary services would have fallen on us at a time when we simply did not have the energy or ability to do so. Throughout our grief journey we continued to meet parents coping with the loss of a child who were similarly unsure how or where to seek support. Soon after in March of 2023, we decided to turn our pain into purpose, setting up The Lola Jayne Foundation in Lola’s honor. The Lola Jayne Foundation seeks to bring necessary resources to grieving parents as they navigate the seemingly unnavigable and to improve infant healthcare with the goal of preventing future tragedies.
PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
Arnold Drucker
COPE GRIEF CAMP VOLUNTER AWARD
Dymond Ortiz & Tsarina Romanoff
Nassau County Legislator
TEEN GRIEF COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
Sid Jacobson JCC'S Hero Project
Charlie Dubofsky & Sydney Hassenbein
Sid Jacobson JCC, the only full-service JCC on Long Island’s North Shore, provides a full range of cutting-edge recreational, health, fitness, educational, cultural arts, and social services programs to East Hills and the surrounding community. Sid Jacobson JCC promotes Jewish identity and provides a comprehensive program based on Jewish values, traditions, heritage, and culture and is committed to enriching the lives of all individuals and families in its community.



