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Child Abuse Council
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $20,000 |
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Providing support to continue two educational puppet programs that follow a national model, are staffed and presented by the Council in public and private schools. “Child Abuse Prevention” is presented to third graders, educating children about child abuse and distinguishing between physical abuse and parental discipline. “Alternatives to Violence, Gang Membership and Prejudice” is presented to fourth graders explaining the consequences of violence, presenting problem solving, addressing racial and ethnic stereotypes and developing respect for self and others.
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Florida Community Partnership Center at the University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $83,000 |
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Providing funds to support the continued operation of Safehouse, a one-stop job and career center in the North Greenwood section of Clearwater, FL. Safehouse provides alternative job opportunities for youth and adults in the neighborhood and will also lay the groundwork for an initiative to promote a construction training apprentice program and affordable housing. The collaborative partners are The University of Florida, The University of South Florida, local government and business.
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Clearwater Free Clinic
Clearwater, Florida
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Awarded: $100,000 |
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Providing funding over a two-year period to support the position of a registered nurse practitioner to incorporate pediatric care into the clinics services to address the problem of Florida’s uninsured children which account for approximately 25 percent of uninsured residents. This grant will enhance the services offered to families of limited income at the facility staffed by volunteer physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, paramedics, clerks and pharmacists that has been successfully operated since 1977. The clinic represents a collaborative among volunteers, local hospitals, laboratories and physicians.
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H.O.P.E.
Melbourne, Florida
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Awarded: $50,000 |
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Providing a challenge grant to construct an additional facility serving autistic children and children presenting language and sensory impairments including a family resource library, sensory gym, mental health counseling room and coordination with the existing center. H.O.P.E. (Health Outreach Prevention and Education) represents a collaborative effort including Holmes Regional Medical Center, ten participating agencies and the local medical community backed by broad public support to deliver early intervention, physical, occupational and speech therapies, family support and mental health counseling to children and families residing in Brevard County, achieving status as a nationally recognized model in providing these services to a population not adequately served by the existing healthcare system.
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Morton Plant Mease Foundation
Clearwater, Florida
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Awarded: $100,000 |
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Providing challenge funds to be utilized to secure support from other foundations. The project supports the Turley Family Health Center, an innovative partnership employing a family practice residency program and comprehensive community health clinic providing medical services to the North Greenwood area of Clearwater, Florida, offering primary medical care to a largely uninsured or underinsured community and serving as a model for affordable, accessible health care in an economically depressed area
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Shepherd’s Hope, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
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Awarded: $36,000 |
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Establishing two new health centers at Colonial High School and Walker Middle School in Orlando, FL. This effort represents a creative collaboration among healthcare providers, faith-based volunteer organizations and the school system by utilizing space within school facilities designated as family service centers. The organization provides healthcare to children and families uninsured or ineligible for public healthcare services. Medical services include the general range of family practice with additional elements of psychological and psychiatric supporting services for children and families. The initiative also provides for the collection of evaluation data to provide information for ongoing modification of the program and to facilitate potential expansion and replication in other communities throughout the United States.
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More Health, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $20,000 |
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Providing matching funds to develop firearm safety lessons for students in the Hillsborough County, Florida, public and private schools, to initiate a community campaign to educate parents and the general public about the problem of firearm-related injuries and deaths and to support formal evaluation of the program through the University of South Florida, College of Public Health.
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Academy Prep Center for Education
St. Petersburg, Florida
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Awarded: $100,000 |
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Supporting the scholarship endowment fund of this inner-city middle school (grades 5-8) education center providing tuition-free, year-round, integrated programs for capable children from low-income families who might not otherwise succeed in public school. The school follows a Jesuit model enjoying a thirty-year history with a college preparatory focus and combines schoolwork, mentoring, tutoring, counseling, field trips, summer camp, recreation and evening programs. The school facilitates and monitors the students’ entry and progression into secondary and college education.
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Florida Holocaust Museum
St. Petersburg, Florida
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Awarded: $25,000 |
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Supporting a traveling exhibit, The Anne Frank Story, for its one-year residency at the museum. The exhibit will be made available to children and young adults with accompanying educational materials allowing young people to deepen their understanding of the necessity of developing respect, personal responsibility and tolerance, by honoring individuals who have actively confronted prejudice and bias-related violence. The exhibit teaches ethical values and demonstrates to young people the consequences of moral breakdown in a historical context with which they can identify. This funding will enable the exhibit to reach rural communities as well as outlying schools and districts outside the immediate Tampa Bay area.
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The Children’s Home, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $49,800 |
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Assisting in the renovation and refurbishing of the Binnicker Administration Building at The Children’s Home. Established in 1882, The Children’s Home is a therapeutic residential treatment program for 72 children, ages 5 to 18, who have not been successful living within a family or the community. The Children’s Home works to heal each child and return them to the community, healthy and ready to take their place as a successful participant. The Children’s Home also has developed and operates preventive programs within the public school system in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties as well as community-based programs to assist families to remain intact.
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The Presbyterian Home for Children
Black Mountain, North Carolina
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Awarded: $25,000 |
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Providing challenge funds for building renovation and new construction of housing facilities providing a loving setting for children who have lost their family through tragedy, are the victims of severe neglect or abuse or for other reasons cannot live at home. The home serves boys and girls ages 5 through 21, housing 40 children each year.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $25,000 |
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Providing matching funds to support full-time resident mentor recruiters in Pasco and Manatee Counties. These operating funds will support an overall strategy to more effectively recruit mentors for youth in Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk and Pasco Counties. To address current needs, a waiting list of 400 children, the organization must recruit approximately 600 mentors. Data regarding the effects of successful mentoring is compelling and the agency is developing a plan to secure permanent funding sources for these positions.
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The Centre for Women, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $25,000 |
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Providing matching funds for the construction of The Centre for Girls, as the initial step to develop a model prevention program capable of replication in other neighborhoods and committed to being a unique resource to parents and girls in addressing the challenges of adolescence providing a location to coordinate other programs.
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Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $25,000 |
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Supporting the Striving Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows (START) program operating at Franklin Middle School initiated in 1997 through the Columbia University National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) which provides program evaluation assistance. The program represents a collaborative effort among school representatives, the Corporation to Develop Communities, and the Tampa Police Department to provide individual case management and mentoring as well as after school and summer activities to 30 students identified as having critical needs at this middle school located in east Tampa.
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Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida
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Awarded: $86,978 |
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To start an early intervention program for at-risk, female youth in Brevard County, which will take advantage of the school’s access to a natural population of at-risk young people and underserved populations near the campus. The project will employ the resources of the school and will, in collaboration with the school system, offer a summer program with follow up during the year. The program’s goals are to increase awareness of educational opportunities; improve and facilitate appropriate behavior, discipline and awareness of ethical issues; increase self-esteem and resilience; improve interpersonal skills, academic achievement and mentoring opportunities with mentors recruited from the local and college community. This program will also facilitate training for students in clinical psychology, addressing a deficit of professionals trained in the rigorous treatment that adolescents demand. This initiative represents a plan that will provide for the development of outcome evaluation data which will be used to secure future funding through sources already identified. The university has provided significant in-kind resources as a collaborator to the project.
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Lannin-Tunstall Society for Children, Inc.
Asheville, North Carolina
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Awarded: $50,000 |
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Providing funds to support general operating expense and challenge funds to expand base of support for Project STEAM (Success Through Education And Motivation), an educational outreach and dropout prevention program operating in Asheville, NC, and serving youth ages 13-18, residing in Buncombe County, NC. The program focuses on providing students the tools necessary for improving self-esteem, increasing academic performance including literacy, career opportunities and mastering life skills. The program consists of collaborative partnerships employing community-wide resources.
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Salesian Youth Center/Boys & Girls Club
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $35,000 |
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Providing for the renovation of a house donated by the City of Tampa to develop an education facility offering additional academic, vocational and behavioral-skills training to youth and the potential for the expansion of GED training to teens and parents in the local community. The education house adds a component to existing collaborative effort among the Salesian Youth Center, the Boys & Girls Club and local government to serve children and families in the neighborhood encouraging and promoting education, moral values, vocational and personal development in a caring environment. Serving boys and girls from 6-18 years of age.
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Young Life Urban of Pinellas County
Largo, Florida
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Awarded: $75,000 |
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Providing support over three years to expand services and outreach to the community by providing additional staff and to facilitate implementation of a plan to broaden the base of community support. The grant will expand both high school and middle school programs and serve inner-city teens, ages 11-18, providing spiritual guidance, family support and youth development activities in the Ridgecrest, Greenwood and South St. Petersburg areas.
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Young Life Urban of Tampa
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded: $25,000 |
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Providing challenge funds toward operating support to continue innovative services and a dynamic program expansion following implementation of the organization’s strategic plan. This Young Life chapter makes available programs for youth between the ages of 13 and 19, living most specifically in the areas of Tampa Heights, Jackson Heights, Woodland Terrace, Sulphur Springs, Nuccio and Rowlett Park neighborhoods. These funds will support ten existing programs and facilitate expansion of services to additional children, adolescents and young adults.
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