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| Grant Listing // 2005 |
CHILD PROTECTION AND PREVENTION:
February 2005
Suncoast Voices for Children Foundation
| Largo, FL
Awarded: $90,000
Providing two-year support for program start up, including office equipment and supplies, as well as salary assistance for the director for two years. This organization provides Guardian as Litem services in Pinellas and Pasco counties for abused and neglected youth in need of advocacy. Services include resources to enhance family stability needs, basic and enriched life needs and the development and management of resources to support volunteer advocacy efforts in judicial proceedings. This project replicates the foundation’s investment in an identical project in Hillsborough County.
November 2005
YMCA, Tampa Metropolitan Area – Ophelia Project
| Tampa, FL
Awarded: $59,587
Supporting a two-year project of the Ophelia Regional Training Institute, offering training for youth-serving professionals in evidence-based program interventions regarding gender-specific issues affecting girls and boys. A major focus of the initiative will address the issues of relational aggression and nonphysical violence – how young people use relationships and words to inflict harm – behaviors that often are a precursor to physically violent and antisocial behaviors. The primary objective is to build competencies of youth workers in the Tampa Bay region to increase their skill level in meeting the gender-specific needs of preteens and adolescents. The curriculum will include Girls’ Circle Training, Wise Guys and the School Violence Prevention Institute. The goal is to reach a sufficient number of professionals to adequately serve the community for six years.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT:
May 2005
Habitat for Humanity of South Brevard, Inc.
| Melbourne, Florida
Awarded: $49,050
Supporting the Space Coast YouthBuild project serving at-risk youth. Program services include basic education toward high school diploma or GED, vocational skills in the construction field, leadership development, adult mentoring and counseling. This YouthBuild project is based on the national, evidence-based model with proven effectiveness. This is a collaboration among Habitat for Humanity, Brevard Community College and YouthBuild to prepare youth from various risk categories for career options and productive participation in their communities.
August 2005
Religious Community Services, Inc.
| Clearwater, Florida
Awarded: $195,750
Providing a challenge grant for the Food Bank renovation capital project, including expansion of the client service space, addition of a children’s room, increased refrigeration capacity, increased food storage capabilities and expanded program space. The resulting renovations will enable RCS to serve more families, the working poor and homeless, with a focus on children at risk.
COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE:
November 2005
University of Miami, Center for Family Studies
| Miami, Florida
Awarded: $345,985
Continuation funding with a three-year challenge award for the program bringing Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), a research-validated, family-therapy model, to frontline practitioners in ten Florida service agencies. This award is designed to build upon the successes of a grant awarded in 2002. It will strategically identify a small number of youth-serving organizations in Florida that can impact various populations of youth and disseminate the necessity of promoting services that work in a cost-effective manner.
EDUCATION:
May 2005
Homeless Emergency Project
| Clearwater, Florida
Awarded: $241,050
Providing a three year grant reestablishing the KEY to Succeed After-school Program serving an average of 45 homeless youth, ages 6-17. The program provides tutoring, homework assistance, referral services, recreation and counseling. The curriculum establishes clear educational goals with specific objectives and provides individually-paced services designed to promote academic success.
February 2005
Key West Botanical Garden Society
| Key West, Florida
Awarded: $50,000
Funding a planning grant for the development of an educational program focusing on environmental science in the only tropical botanical garden in the continental United States. The grant supports the hiring of a director of education to complete the planning and preparation of the program to serve students and their families in Monroe County, with a focus on involving and providing opportunities for at-risk youth.
May 2005
Nativity Preparatory School of Wilmington
| Wilmington, Delaware
Awarded: $90,000
Providing a two-year grant with a second-year challenge for the extended-school-experience summer program. The school is a tuition-free, faith-based, private middle school for boys from low-income families and serves 27 to 37 boys, ages 10-14. The summer program is available to students who meet academic and conduct standards. The program is conducted on the de Sales University campus and participants experience the challenges and opportunities that a university offers. The program includes academics, library research, science lab work, Shakespeare festival, field trips and athletics. The support of this school complements the foundations of two other affiliated schools following this model in Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida.
May 2005
Neighborhood Family Centers Coalition, Inc.
| Clearwater, Florida
Awarded: $1,066,765
Funding the three-year replication into ten centers throughout Pinellas County of the Technology Education Computer Program developed by coalition member, African American Leadership Council. The program provides progressive education in computer skills starting with basic computer operation, through advanced computer programs and IC3 Certification for those youth who complete all phases. The replication will involve the use of trained student peer mentors. The wider availability of the program in the county will improve the computer literacy of at-risk youth in Pinellas County and enhance the skills of those who show promise in the field by increasing their marketability for future positions in the computer industry. In addition to peer mentors, the program utilizes the principles of positive youth development, preparing students to be productive members of their community.
August 2005
Pinellas Education Foundation
| Largo, Florida
Awarded: $180,000
Funding the S.A.V.E. (Scholarship for Adult Vocational Excellence) program over three years. SAVE provides vocational training to financially deserving students who are most likely to drop out of school or who have dropped out and need to complete their education and explore vocational opportunities. The program includes training, career counseling, assessment and literacy progress. Over 80% graduate with a marketable skill and gain long-term employment in their career field.
FOSTER CARE:
June 2005
Camelot Community Care
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $472,060
Funding the “Connected by 25” project for youth transitioning out of foster care. This is one of three national sites implementing this pilot project providing 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 enable 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 represents a collaboration among the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, the Lumina Foundation and the Eckerd Family Foundation and is an opportunity t build on the reforms of privatization of child welfare services.
November 2005
Florida’s Children First
| Coral Springs, Florida
Awarded: $100,000
Two-year funding supporting the development of the Youth FIRST project establishing a statewide foster youth advocacy board based on the successful California Youth Connection model. Youth will be prepared to advocate for improvements in the child-serving systems, especially the foster care and independent living programs. FCF will support the organization through the establishment of its own corporation and the goal is that the organization will be fully independent within three years.
November 2005
Hillsborough Kids, Inc.
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $35,000
PFunding outside evaluation of the new Intensive Permanency Team Project designed to serve children between the ages of 0-5, who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. The program provides intensive support to the children, foster and biological families so the children spend less time in the system, decrease the number in out-of-home care, increase satisfactory outcomes, reduce reabuse and decrease reentry of the children to out-of-home care.
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
May 2005
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida
| Orlando, Florida
Awarded: $300,000
Providing three-year support for expanding positive youth development programs for at-risk children into Brevard County. This grant enables the chapter to stabilize and restructure operations in Brevard County, build a strong operational and financial base to allow the clubs to deliver a broader range of programming to a greater number of at-risk youth.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
August 2005
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast
| St. Petersburg, Florida
Awarded: $170,000
Continuation funding for the EAGLE (Empowered Adolescents Gaining Leadership Experience) program at three 61C Teen Center sites. The program is a unique, teen-empowered model providing five core areas to youth: character and leadership development; education and career development; health and life skills; the arts; and sports, fitness and recreation activities. The grant will provide funds for additional staff training and program evaluation in order to complete the model and solidify operations at the three sites.
February 2005
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
| Largo, Florida
Awarded: $52,100
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 that addresses 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.
February 2005
PACE Center for Girls, Inc.
| Tampa, Florida
Awarded: $24,000
Providing a two-year grant for the implementation of the Triad program, an evidence-based, gender-specific treatment program for at-risk girls between 12 and 18 years old. Triad is designed to address the combination of substance abuse, trauma and mental health issues. This nonresidential program is designed specifically to reduce the numbers of high-risk girls from entering the juvenile or adult justice systems by decreasing at-risk behaviors and bettering the quality of life for the girls. The focus is on providing quality, therapeutic social and education services that produce life-changing opportunities for at-risk girls.
February 2005
Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice
| Asheville, North Carolina
Awarded: $99,000
Continuation funding for the EAGLE (Empowered Adolescents Gaining Leadership Experience) program at three 61C Teen Center sites. The program is a unique, teen-empowered model providing five core areas to youth: character and leadership development; education and career development; health and life skills; the arts; and sports, fitness and recreation activities. The grant will provide funds for additional staff training and program evaluation in order to complete the model and solidify operations at the three sites.
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