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| Grant Listing // 2002 |
ADVOCACY:
May 2002
Center for Florida’s Children
| Tallahassee, Florida
Awarded: $240,000
Funding a nonpartisan, citizens’ organization that has been a statewide advocacy voice for children in the state of Florida since 1976. The award supports the Center’s work to build its capacity for growth, develop a statewide coalition of advocates and effectively advocate for children and on issues impacting the family and the needs of senior citizens. The Center seeks to engage the public and legislators in discussion and implementation of cost-effective solutions to the issues facing children and families. The grant extends over 42 months and, if approved annually, will total $1,000,000.
CHILD PROTECTION & PREVENTION:
November 2002
Child Abuse Council
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $250,000
Providing operational start-up expenses for three child care service centers known as Family Learning Stations. These centers provide therapeutic child care and quality commercial child care for high-risk, low-income and underserved communities in facilities located in Plant City, south Hillsborough County and Tampa, Florida. Funding provides basic services while stabilizing start-up costs associated with the establishment and co-location of therapeutic and commercial child care services.
February 2002
Mary & Martha House, Inc.
| Ruskin, Florida
Awarded: $ $100,000
Funding a capital project to refurbish the existing facility. The project will expand the organization’s services through a collaboration with the Child Abuse Council which will operate a Rainbow Family Learning Center onsite to serve the guests of Mary & Martha House and will facilitate creation of a community child care center. Mary & Martha House will continue to serve women and children experiencing homelessness and domestic violence. This collaboration will serve the migrant worker population and the surrounding rural communities through intensive support and training in a structured protected environment.
May 2002
The Spring of Tampa Bay, Inc.
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $203,666
Providing a capital grant for the new Plant City Rural Outreach Center, a domestic violence program that exists to eliminate domestic violence. Specialized services are provided for survivors, offenders and children of domestic violence. Community education and outreach reflect the emphasis on prevention. Children’s services include an accredited child care center, children’s case management, individual and group counseling and structured after-school activities. The Center is designed to provide “one-stop” integrated services to at-risk families delivered by collaborating partner agencies in one location.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT:
November 2002
Homeless Emergency Project
| Clearwater, Florida
Awarded: $1,000,000
Awarding a challenge grant to support a campaign to establish an endowment fund. The campaign follows a feasibility study also funded by the foundation. The program assists the homeless, physically and mentally disabled, and low-income individuals and families with housing, food, clothing, and support services necessary to attain self-sufficiency. Services include locating permanent housing for families who receive intense case management including a child advocate and learning center offering after school tutoring and computer classes. HEP guides families to self-sufficiency and reentry into the community by instilling a commitment to change and offering the assistance needed for personal growth.
August 2002
USF Center for Scholarship in Action | Tampa, Florida
(formerly: FL Community Partnership Center)
Awarded: $100,000
Building on the established North Greenwood middle school program and expanding to a third middle school. Supporting children and parents of the community through tutoring and counseling services so underachieving students have a realistic opportunity to catch up with their peers, remain in school, successfully transition into high school, graduate and pursue either postsecondary education or vocational opportunities.
May 2002
Seedco (Structured Employment Economic Development Corp)
| New York City, New York
Awarded: $100,000
Funding a two-year grant to Seedco, a national intermediary, to work with its local partner, the University of South Florida (USF), launching the Nonprofit Venture Network: Tampa Bay, a comprehensive initiative to promote youth employment and develop socially responsible businesses enabling organizations to become more financially independent. The collaboration partners will provide technical and financial assistance to local nonprofits that strive to revitalize economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE – CHILDREN & FAMILIES:
May 2002
Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $135,000
Providing support for the Youth Worker Training Institute element of the coalition’s five-year plan to develop and implement a cohesive community-wide strategy to reduce teen-pregnancy rates and address teen-parenting issues. The Youth Worker Training Institute will create a standardized training curriculum for youth workers to improve program effectiveness and staff retention. The Institute will offer certification and training programs to any community agency with staff who work with youth.
May 2002
University of Miami, Center for Family Studies
| Miami, Florida
Awarded: $779,557
A three-year award bringing Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT); a research-validated, family-therapy model; to frontline practitioners in 18 community sites. The Family Therapy Training and Fellowship Program will identify and train promising family service professionals for effective interventions with families of behavior-problem, at-risk youth. The program will provide BSFT training for three family-service professionals in each of 18 sites. Professionals will become trainers for their communities and train future BSFT practitioners. The long-range impact is intended to develop a statewide network of therapists and trainers who will be equipped to educate succeeding generations of clinicians.
EARLY CHILD CARE:
February 2002
Community Pride Child Care Center
| Clearwater, Florida
Awarded: $65,155
Providing capital funds to expand and refurbish the Mosich Center, a child care center primarily serving low-income families. The funds provide an additional modular unit to house a classroom for 20 two-year-olds, a full-service kitchen and pantry. Additional remodeling in the current building will serve ten additional one-year-olds, increasing the licensed capacity of the center from 37 to 50 children.
EDUCATION:
February 2002
African American Leadership Council, Inc.
| Clearwater, Florida
Awarded: $75,000
A second award for program continuation and expansion of the Technology Education/ Computer Lab serving middle school children. This successful component of an after-school program is expanding the levels of advanced training, updating equipment and adding space for the computer lab.
May 2002
All Sports Community Service
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $77,442
Expanding the existing program that currently prepares and supports at-risk, high school athletes to prepare academically, apply to college and access scholarships. The program will now reach nonathletes as well. The program mentors scholarship recipients while in college and after graduation to facilitate realization of individual goals. A component of the award is a challenge. A portion of the grant is dedicated to facilitate planning, capacity building, implementation of a graduate-tracking system and grant writing assistance.
May 2002
Asheville-Buncombe Education Coalition
| Asheville, NC
Awarded: $77,442
Supporting a coalition of youth-serving organizations and the public school system formed to share and implement best practices. The coalition agencies provide students with mentoring, tutoring and other support services designed to eliminate achievement gaps and provide a path to high school graduation. The award allows the coalition to work together more effectively toward the common goal of keeping kids in school. This award matched a portion of a challenge grant from another foundation.
August 2002
Computer Mentors Group
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $67,000
Expanding the existing Computer Literacy and Advanced Training Technology Program to provide computer technology training to 150 at-risk youth and provide 80 youth with a personal computer. The program adds a new component including certifiable employability skills to assist youth become more self-reliant, contributing and productive adults. Helps build self-esteem by allowing students to acquire and demonstrate skills and promotes community service.
November 2002
Oasis Network of New Tampa
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $12,000
Supporting the purchase of school uniforms, clothing, shoes and school supplies for Hillsborough County Title I school students. OASIS is volunteer driven and works closely with Hillsborough County Schools to fill a need for basic necessities in 21 of the 80 Title I schools. The OASIS Network consists of New Tampa residents, schools, churches and businesses working together.
November 2002
Pinellas County Education Foundation
| Largo, Florida
Awarded: $150,000
Funding scholarships for three-years for the SAVE (Scholarships for Adult Vocational Education) program which targets low-income, high school dropouts and encourages them to return to earn their GED followed by career training and job placement. In its ten-year history, SAVE has helped 2,400 students successfully complete the program with 99 percent of the enrollees earning their GED and 85 percent learning a marketable skill and gaining employment in their career field. Over the three years, PCEF will provide more than $190,000 in matching funds for scholarships, two SAVE coordinators, and a child care partnership agreement.
August2002
Tampa Street School Association, Inc.
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $180,000
Awarding two years of scholarship support for low-income, at-risk youth in this alternative Christian school offering a high school diploma for 7th through 12th grade students who have not achieved success in the traditional school environment. The award subsidizes tuition for students who cannot afford the tuition and have few if any other educational options but have demonstrated the desire and commitment to continue their education.
FOSTER CARE:
November 2002
Children’s Home Society of Florida – Brevard Division
| Melbourne, Florida
Awarded: $75,000
Awarding a challenge grant to construct an eight-bed Pre-Independent Living Cottage at the Hacienda Girl’s Ranch in Brevard County, Florida. The cottage provides an independent setting for girls, ages 15-18, leaving the shelter and foster care systems to prepare for independent living.
SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE of ECKERD FAMILY FOUNDATION:
May 2002
Eleven Nonprofit Service Agencies
| Various locations serving multiple states
Awarded: $195,000
Establishing a scholarship program for eleven nonprofit, youth-serving agencies to provide traditional and nontraditional scholarship opportunities to selected youth, ages 14-24, with demonstrated need. Each agency administers the program, conducts the application process, monitors award recipients and provides semi-annual reports to the foundation. The initiative offers general guidelines but permits each organization to develop its own specific criteria. Awards may be used for any kind of assistance, including enrichment activities, vocational training or to facilitate taking advantage of such opportunities.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
August 2002
Ballet Society for Ballet Education, Inc.
| St. Petersburg, Florida
Awarded: Awarded: $25,000
Replicating a successful Tampa after-school program for 40 underserved students, ages 8-12, including children from four Boys and Girls Clubs in St. Petersburg. Modeled after a vocational training program of NYC-based Joffrey Ballet and giving children the opportunity to learn classic ballet with a focus on building self-esteem, as well as training for potential careers as dancers, ballet teachers, and technical support occupations such as lighting, set design, and marketing. A component promotes family health.
May 2002
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay, Inc.
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: Awarded: $250,000
Providing a challenge grant for the capital campaign establishing a new club in a high-need area of Brandon, Florida. Funds are earmarked for the building and equipment. The program is designed to provide a variety of services including after-school programs, a summer program, as well as evening and weekend programs for teens. Modeled after other successful collaborations, the Brandon program will be a partnership with the First United Methodist Church.
May 2002
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast
| St. Petersburg, Florida
Awarded: $660,000
Providing funds over three years to replicate the unique and successful “61-C” Teen Center in Pinellas Park, Florida. The four additional sites are in Pinellas County. The 61-C Teen Center model is unique in that it is a self-determining model designed and governed by a teen youth council elected by their peers. The adult program coordinators act as facilitators and guides rather than as leaders. The teens design the programs and activities at the centers. Activities include community volunteer projects. The program is grounded in the principles of positive youth development. The concept for the Teen Center was formed and implemented by a group of teens with guidance of an exceptional high school teacher. Additional support has been provided for training for full implementation of positive youth development practices and programmatic evaluation.
August 2002
National Conference for Community and Justice
| St. Petersburg, Florida
Awarded: $100,000
Providing a two-year grant to expand the Youth As Resources program challenging youth to develop solutions to social problems in their neighborhoods and schools. The program is the embodiment of the positive youth development philosophy and grant funds were leveraged for a commitment for matching funds.
May 2002
PACE Center for Girls, Inc.
| Pinellas Park, Florida
Awarded: $48,500
Providing a challenge grant to support a pilot project to strengthen the curriculum at Lealman Discovery School, an alternative middle school. Students attending the school and selected for this intervention program will participate in the Spirited Girls curriculum as part of the school day throughout the year. Girls are directed to summer activities. This pilot program is modeled after other PACE programs proven to be effective with older at-risk girls. The pilot works with girls at a younger age to assist in the transition through middle to high school.
August 2002
Partners N Progress for the Arts, Inc.
| Largo, Florida
Awarded: $14,760
Supporting two projects for at-risk youth from low-income families: a circus camp serving 50 children and six summer theater camp scholarships. These programs expand current offerings by reaching out to diverse and at-risk youth including youth served by after-school activities for juveniles in at-risk neighborhoods classified as hot spots for juvenile crime.
August 2002
Plant City Children’s Theatre Guild, Inc.
| Plant City, Florida
Awarded: $10,000
Providing a challenge grant for a summer theatre workshop and play for the summer 2003 season. Offering classes in dance, acting and voice to low-income children in the Plant City, Florida area, a predominately agricultural area and home to numerous low-income and migrant farmer families. Classes and workshops are followed by two performances by approximately 50 students at the end of the summer.
November 2002
Redlands Christian Migrant Association
| Immokalee, Florida
Awarded: $210,000
Three-year funding to establish a Family Support Counseling Program, providing culturally appropriate support to parents and children, giving the children a meaningful path out of the cycle of migrant poverty and enabling the parents to help their children take advantage of these opportunities. This program serves 120 families annually through a training program for parents and youth and includes development of a peer mentor group.
August 2002
Safety Harbor Neighborhood Family Center, Inc.
| Safety Harbor, Florida
Awarded: $20,000
Supporting a new performing arts program consisting of a choral group and dance ensemble and designed to serve 80 low-income, minority, neighborhood youth. The program enhances the natural talents of the youth, develops a sense of teamwork, enhances positive behavior, builds self-esteem and helps prevent negative or “at risk” behaviors.
November 2002
STEAM – Asheville
| Asheville, North Carolina
Awarded: $192,790
Continuing support of a national expansion targeting school districts across the country, marketing the STEAM Life Skills Training Kit and Virtual Club Membership, and providing the capacity to launch the program in 2003-04. The strategy is based on building the infrastructure and capacity of STEAM that is necessary for the development of the partnerships and to secure long-term financial stability.
February 2002
Tampa Bay Academy of Hope, Inc.
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $75,000
Supporting a grassroots, largely volunteer-driven entity, seeking to build on its groundwork in a depressed Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community of Tampa. Funding a research-based pilot program, Skills of Hope Youth Leadership Project, providing a series of activities designed to develop the social, moral, physical and cognitive competencies of a targeted group of youth and their parents. The program provides a menu of supports to keep kids in school and engage parents and will carefully evaluate programmatic activities.
August 2002
Tampa Crossroads, Inc.
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $42,500
Supporting a pilot project and evaluation study for, “Creating Responsible Thinkers,” a crime prevention program targeting youth with incarcerated parents, with juvenile court referrals or considered at risk due to trouble in school, problems with law enforcement, or commitment of a minor offense. The program is based on a therapeutic model that teaches responsible thinking rather than criminal thinking. A portion of the award is in the form of a challenge.
May 2002
University Boxing Club
| Melbourne, Florida
Awarded: $150,000
A three-year challenge grant funding the addition of several elements to the present boxing program and development of the organizational infrastructure to enable the club to operate more cost efficiently, evaluate programs and promote positive youth development practices. The club provides opportunities for improvement of physical, mental, spiritual, social and marketable skills for at-risk young people by engaging in Olympic-style, amateur boxing as a core program. The club has developed partnerships with other community resources to minimize program duplication.
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