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November
2006
Asheville Parks and Greenways Foundation
Asheville, North Carolina
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Awarded:
$300,000
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Offering
a challenge grant for renovation of the W. C. Reid Center
housing the Cultural Renaissance Arts Program, the only
cultural arts outreach project in Asheville directly
reaching youth in the public housing areas. The program
challenges youth to become positive contributors to
the community through the production and presentation
of social dramas, visual arts, dance, music and literary
arts projects. The program was recognized by the National
League of Cities in the most innovative municipal program
category
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November
2006
Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay
(formerly Management Assistance Program)
Tampa, Florida |
Awarded:
$60,000
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A matching
grant to support a college and graduate-level certification
program for nonprofit management. To equip the next generation
of nonprofit leaders, management training is a necessity
for executives to assure they will have the skills to
sustain well-managed operations. The Nonprofit Leadership
Center and the University of Tampa have collaborated to
develop the Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Innovation
program. Through this program, the Center has committed
to enhance the quality and content of its training and
educational offerings to area nonprofit organizations.
The grant is restricted to organizations serving children
and families.
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June 2006
Asheville-Buncombe Education Coalition
Asheville, North Carolina
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Awarded:
$70,000 |
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Supporting
the development of a long-term sustainability plan to
support ABEC and its community partners. This grant recognizes
the impressive work of five years of the coalition in
significantly increasing high school graduation rates
and in addressing racial disparity issues.
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February 2006
MANNA FoodBank
Asheville, North Carolina
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Awarded:
$50,000 |
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Supporting
a capital campaign for the purchase and renovation of
additional warehouse space for this food bank serving
over 9,000 meals a day and 345 nonprofit agencies in 16
counties in Western North Carolina. Clients of the food
bank include several EFF grantees and many youth-serving
organizations.
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June 2006
Morton Plant Mease Foundation
Clearwater, Florida
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Awarded:
$50,000 |
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Providing
a matching grant for the “Earn as You Learn” program for
patient care technicians. Six at-risk young adults will
continue their education at Pinellas Technical Education
Center and gain clinical experience in a hospital environment.
The program provides tuition, books, housing and other
needs while paying the students a stipend. The program
goal is to provide opportunities to at-risk youth in the
health care profession.
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February 2006
Grace Jones Community Center
Marathon, Florida
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Awarded:
$136,500 |
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Providing
matching grant supporting the capital campaign to replace
a community center destroyed by multiple hurricanes in
2005. The center provides child care and after-school
programming in a predominantly poor neighborhood. Every
staff member has the Child Development Associate status.
The center has been a model STEPS, Early Learning Program
for Head Start in the region and is the only licensed
center serving infants in Monroe County.
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February 2006
Key West Botanical Garden Society
Key West, Florida
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Awarded:
$600,000 |
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Funding
two years of the Environmental Educational Program to
enhance science education for at-risk students in the
Monroe County School System. After demonstrating success
in the pilot phase, this program will serve 5,000 students
and teachers. The elements include in-class mentoring
as well as peer-to-peer learning and technical assistance
for science teachers. The organization has developed a
partnership with Duke University that involves local high
school students in the research efforts of Duke’s master’s
program. The program goal is to improve graduation rates
for youth and involve them in planning for success.
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November
2006
The Children's Home
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded:
$700,000
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A challenge
grant for the renovation and upgrading of Lois Binnicker
Hall, the administration building supporting 2,000 children
and 600 families annually. This residential treatment
program serves children who have been abused, neglected
or abandoned with a program designed to provide a nurturing
family setting. 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 grant also recognizes contributions to The Children’s
Home made by Lois Binnicker, a founding member of The
Children’s Home, and her daughter, Ruth Binnicker
Eckerd, a past board member.
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November
2006
Camelot Community Care, Connected by 25
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded:
$275,550
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Supporting
development of a statewide technical assistance office
for the replication of the Connected by 25 (Cby25) program
serving foster care, juvenile justice and other transitioning
youth. Cby25 has demonstrated success with specific understandable
outcomes. This project and its advocacy efforts have resulted
in system changes for youth aging out of foster care across
Florida. Program replication demands a thoughtful, strategic
process ensuring fidelity to the Cby25 model. This grant
will facilitate the process of replication throughout
the state.
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June 2006
Camelot Community Care
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded:
$450,000 |
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Second-year
funding of the “Connected by 25” project for youth transitioning
out of foster care. This pilot project provides education,
workforce development skills, financial literacy, savings
and asset accumulation and entrepreneurship training to
foster children aging out of the system. The goal is to
prepare foster children to become economically successful
and live independently. The grant includes a public policy
and advocacy/education component to address needed change
in the foster care system within Florida. The project
is a collaborative effort among the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities
Initiative, the Lumina Foundation and the Eckerd Family
Foundation.
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June 2006
Florida Guardian ad Litem Association
Glen St. Mary, Florida
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Awarded:
$150,000 |
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A three-year
grant supporting statewide planning work, development
of a strategic plan and the capacity to implement the
plan and the supports needed by the regional GAL offices.
The goal is to increase Guardian ad Litem services for
youth in the foster care system throughout Florida.
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February 2006
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Washington, DC
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Awarded:
$50,000 |
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Providing
a matching grant to support a national Policy Academy,
an intensive workshop that helps states design and implement
action plans promoting large scale policy initiatives.
The activities would support the foundation’s interest
in youth policy and especially youth in and emerging from
foster care. A strategic plan for assisting foster care
youth will be developed.
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June 2006
American Stage
St. Petersburg, Florida
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Awarded:
$10,000 |
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Supporting
a pilot program in Pinellas County Juvenile Detention
Center supporting an Artist in Residence program working
with incarcerated girls to help them express their feelings
in a positive way, define and implement goals and expand
their world view. The curriculum will focus on character
building, making healthy choices, defining positive relationships,
problem solving, strategies for success and personal empowerment.
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June 2006
Boy Scouts of America, Gulf Ridge Council
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded:
$150,000 |
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A three-year
grant for the implementation of a juvenile diversion program,
JAKE, that will work with 600 first-time, nonviolent youth.
The Juveniles Achieving Knowledge and Experience program
provides an alternative to formal court proceedings, keeping
the youth out of the juvenile justice system, and offers
a second chance for those who are willing to accept responsibility.
The program is a local collaborative effort among the
Boy Scouts, law enforcement, the state attorney, public
defender and the judiciary. The program is unique in that
youth do not enter the juvenile justice system in the
first instance and will be operated in the context of
the civil citation option, as provided in Chapter 985,
Florida Statutes.
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June 2006
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay
Tampa, Florida
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Awarded:
$50,000 |
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Supporting
the Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program, an initiative
focused on providing mentors to children of incarcerated
parents, who are one of the highest-risk groups in the
United States. Based on the Amachi Project, the program
is a partnership of secular and faith-based organizations
working together to mentor children. This program coordinates
mentoring services and creates partnerships with the faith-based
community.
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June 2006
Great Explorations
St. Petersburg, Florida
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Awarded:
$75,000 |
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Supporting
outreach services of The Children’s Museum to at-risk
youth in the community. This program includes adding ten
additional participants to the Youth Apprentice Program,
free memberships to 500 foster families and group homes,
summer camp scholarships as well as fostering at-risk
you to take advantage of other educational, career and
leadership development opportunities at the museum.
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February 2006
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
Largo, Florida
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Awarded:
$50,356 |
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Second-year
funding supporting the Hospice Youth Providing Encouragement
(HYPE) program in St. Petersburg in which at-risk youth
engage their peers in service projects that give purpose
and meaning to life. The project is a collaboration addressing
underutilization of Hospice services in the St. Petersburg
community through involvement of youth in the faith-based
community. This model is evidence-based and driven by
youth leadership who develop specific program goals. In
addition to addressing end of life issues, the program
also provides guidance on issues touching violence and
suicide. The project has involved several high schools
and continues to expand with youth visiting nursing homes,
speaking at churches, visiting patients’ homes and creating
leadership opportunities.
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November
2006
Help A Child, Inc.
Pinellas Park, Florida
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Awarded:
$45,000
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This is
an emergency support grant to address a funding gap to
support the Parent Aide Program, a child abuse prevention
program that works with families before child abuse occurs.
Community volunteers serve as aides to parents seeking
supportive guidance. This proven intervention program
helps parents achieve success in raising their children
by helping develop a supportive environment and offering
knowledge to guide parents to successfully raise healthy,
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November
2006
Presbyterian Home for Children of Black Mountain, NC,
Inc.
Black Mountain, North Carolina
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Awarded:
$160,000
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Funding
a challenge grant of $100,000 for the construction of
an eight-unit apartment building for foster youth completing
high school or GED requirements and housing the independent
living program for youth transitioning from foster care
to young adulthood. An additional amount of $60,000 is
awarded for operation of the transitional living training
program designed to promote a successful transition to
adult living by offering physical, emotional, financial
and career-guidance support to the young adults housed
in the new building. Each youth enrolled in the program
must be actively pursuing a trade, technical or college
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