Nominate a family or neighbor in need for a free oil delivery!
“No family should have to make the impossible choice between heating their home or having a meal. By ‘Fueling Kindness’ and taking action, we can help ensure that a family does not have to sacrifice one essential need for another.”
– Dennis Traina, owner of Tragar Home Services
Driven to Make a Difference
Fueling Kindness is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit powered by Tragar Home Services (EIN: 33-1551229).
We provide a one-time gift of up to 150 gallons of emergency heating oil to Long Island households in crisis, specifically those who don’t qualify for assistance programs but are still in urgent need. We respond swiftly, without the delays of traditional aid programs, delivering comfort when it’s needed most.
Our Mission
To bring warmth, safety, and hope to our neighbors in need by providing emergency heating oil to individuals and families in crisis, ensuring no one is left in the cold.
Our Vision
A growing movement that reaches hundreds of households each year, creating a community where no one must choose between heat and other basic needs —where kindness fuels every home.
501 (C)(3)
Nonprofit
Fueling Kindness operates as a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, ensuring that every dollar goes directly to warming the homes and hearts of those in need. This status allows us to translate compassion into real support for families during the coldest months.
Vision Statement
A community where no family or individual has to face the cold, and kindness fuels warmth, comfort, and hope for all.
Mission Statement
Fueling Kindness is dedicated to providing warmth and comfort to individuals and families in need on Long Island by delivering free heating oil throughout the winter months. Through compassion, community support, and shared responsibility, we aim to ease the burden of heating costs, ensuring everyone can experience the security and dignity of a warm home.
501 (C)(3) Nonprofit
Fueling Kindness operates as a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, ensuring that every dollar goes directly to warming the homes and hearts of those in need. This status allows us to translate compassion into real support for families during the coldest months.
How It Works
Recipients are chosen through a nomination process and evaluated by our executive committee, which is committed to a rigorous vetting procedure. Selection focuses on the urgency and severity of the need, financial or circumstantial hardship, and situations where heating assistance can directly protect a family’s health, safety, and stability.
This process ensures transparency, integrity and impact directly supporting the families who need it most, quickly and compassionately.
How To Submit A Nomination
Help us keep Long Island families warm this winter. Your gift delivers safety, stability, and hope —turning crisis into comfort. Join the movement!
Program Details
Eligibility, Selection and Spreading the Warmth!
NOMINATIONS:
Fueling Kindness relies on community nominations to identify households in urgent need. Nominations can be submitted by anyone who knows the nominee’s story—neighbors, friends, family, schools, case workers, or local organizations.
To be eligible, nominees must:
- reside on Long Island.
- use an oil tank for home heating.
- demonstrate financial or personal hardship.
- be ineligible for programs like HEAP.
Nominations require a brief application, submitted by the nominee or someone on their behalf at:
SELECTION PROCESS:
All submissions are reviewed through a rigorous vetting process conducted by our executive committee. Selection is based on:
- the urgency and severity of the need.
- confirmed financial or situational hardship.
- the potential impact heating assistance would have on the household’s safety, health, and stability.
Priority is given to those facing serious illness, job loss, or other extraordinary challenges. This process ensures transparency, integrity and impact – directly supporting the families who need it most, quickly and compassionately.
SHARING STORIES TO INSPIRE KINDNESS:
As part of the nomination and selection process, we encourage recipients to share their stories. These powerful testimonials raise awareness, inspire compassion, and help Fueling Kindness reach more families in need.
To amplify the impact:
- Share your story to inspire more nominations, donations.
- Post on social media and tag @fueling kindnessbytragar.
- Like, follow, and engage to grow our community reach.
Together, we can create a powerful ripple effect—warming homes, connecting neighbors, and strengthening our community through compassion.