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| Grant Listing // 2009 |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT:
June 2009
Starting Right, Now | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $10,000
Supporting a mentoring program for families experiencing or at risk of some form of homelessness and who have a 9th grade-level student. SRN helps homeless families reestablish a stable home, improve parental employment and maintain the continuity of the child’s education. The goal is to assist the children to obtain their highest educational potential, thus ending the cycle of homelessness in their generation. The grant provides funding for school-related expenses for the students in the program and allows these young people to participate in outside school activities and school functions that are fee based as well as assures that they have proper school supplies and clothing. The foundation believes this is a unique approach to stabilizing all aspects of family life and crating a pathway for the student to finish high school and pursue the most appropriate vocational opportunity or continued education.
COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE:
November 2009
Children & Families First Delaware | Wilmington, DE
Awarded: $150,000
Providing three-year support to implement the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program, a evidence-based, nationally-recognized, best-practice model. The programs reaches low-income, first-time-pregnant women during the first trimester of pregnancy using Registered Nurses as home visitors. NFP has experienced significant positive outcomes in a range of issues, including child abuse and neglect; infant mortality and involvement in the juvenile justice system. Visits to mother and child will continue through the child’s second birthday. This award supports the direct-service costs of one nurse home visitor.
EDUCATION:
November 2009
Key West Botanical Garden Society
| Key West, FL
Awarded: $300,000
Supporting a two-year expansion of ongoing education programs serving at-risk youth who attend science classes both in school and at the gardens as well as hands-on, FCAT standard science classes. The gardens will continue its work in Key West with Grades K-8 and expand to the Marathon area to include grades K-12. In addition, a feasibility study will be conducted regarding the establishment of a green charter school in the Keys as well as the creation of local courses and a degree in urban forestry to be presented at Keys Community College.
June 2009
Clothes to Kids | St. Petersburg, FL
Awarded: $25,000
Providing a capital challenge grant for an additional location in St. Petersburg to make CTK services more accessible to eligible children in South Pinellas County. The mission is to provide new and quality used clothing to low-income, school-age children in Pinellas County, free of charge. Currently operating out of a single location in Clearwater, nearly 65% of children receiving free or reduced lunch live in South Pinellas County and are eligible for CTK’s services. Though these families are eligible to shop at CTK, it is difficult and sometimes impossible for them to travel to the Clearwater location.
June 2009
Cornerstone Kids | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $15,000
Supporting a homework assistance/tutorial program and the Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read program to raise achievement levels and increase positive behavior of children at risk. The program and enrichment activities combine to address the needs and well-being of 35 children, ages 5 to 11, in the Tampa Heights neighborhood and surrounding area. Other program activities include nutrition, computer lab training, enrichment/recreational activities, arts and crafts and field trips.
June 2009
Salesian Youth Center/Boys & Girls Club | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $10,000
Supporting the SYC Literacy Initiative, a year-round literacy program provided in five-week cycles of one-hour daily sessions serving 15 to 20 elementary school students each session. Most students attending the program attend B.C. Graham Elementary School which, along with SYC, is located in Tampa Heights, one of Tampa’s most impoverished communities. School administration and staff of both organizations coordinate efforts to identify the greatest academic and behavioral needs of the children they serve and recommend students for the SYC Literacy Initiative program. This identification process results in individualized tutoring and mentoring to be provided for those children who need it most.
June 2009
University Community Ministries | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $20,000
Assisting with the retention of staff and volunteer tutors for the PCAT Program (Parents & Children Advance Together), a literacy program for 60 1st and 2nd graders enrolled in Sulphur Springs Elementary School who are reading below grade level and are displaying low academic achievement. The goal of the PCAT program is to instill literacy as a value with specific emphasis on breaking the intergenerational cycle of nonreaders. The program encourages parental/family participation; provides individualized instruction that improves academic performance and school readiness; and results in academic achievement and improved reading skill levels.
February 2009
Monroe County Education Foundation | Key West, FL
Awarded: $10,000
Funding a counselor at The Keys Center, a positive alternative education and counseling program intended to meet the needs of the area’s most challenged female students. The center uses a team approach to reach at-risk girls and actively and positively intervene to ensure students graduate from high school and go on to become productive members of the community. Included in the team approach is the integral involvement of counselors who work with students and their families to ensure success and graduation from high school.
FOSTER CARE:
November 2009
Cby25 Initiative | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $500,000
Providing third-year support for Cby25 Initiative (Cby25 I). Established in November 2007, Cby25 I is a strategy of public and private investments and partnerships that are designed to improve the outcomes for youth ages 13-23 who are aging out of foster care. Improvements to outcomes for youth are accomplished, not through direct service provision to youth, but rather through systemic change. This change is achieved through the creation and oversight of the full Cby25 model and provision of comprehensive technical assistance and training to agencies and providers at all levels of the child welfare and other systems that impact youth at risk.
August 2009
Cby25 Initiative/Connected by 25 Brevard | Melbourne, FL
Awarded: $199,065
Providing third year support for implementation of Connected by 25 in Brevard County. Cby25 develops partnerships, projects and programs that enhance and increase the support and services available to youth aging out of foster care. Target areas and activities include administering and managing the program site, youth engagement, financial literacy training, education, employment and transportation.
June 2009
Hillsborough Kids, Inc. | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $20,000
Providing a challenge grant for the Foster Parent Mentor Program. As the lead agency managing child welfare in Hillsborough County, HKI oversees children and young adults who are living within the county’s foster care system. Recognizing that newly licensed foster parents can benefit from hands-on training and support, in addition to the preservice (MAPP) training they receive, this grant supports the formalization of a pilot mentoring program. HKI has observed that currently licensed foster parents are one of the best resources to provide support to new foster parents as they have experience with the system of care and community. The award will allow HKI to formalize this mentoring relationship with training and foster parent mentors.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
November 2009
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $20,000
Supporting a photography program in collaboration with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay (B&GC-TB), for at-risk youth between the ages of 12 and 17. The program inspires, educates and engages youth in the arts through the use of photography as a means for creativity and expression. In addition to learning basic photographic concepts, youth will create and exhibit their work. Collected photographs will be judged and exhibited. With FMOPA’s mission to integrate community efforts with the museum’s goal of art and education, particularly with at-risk populations, a partnership with B&GC-TB was formed in an effort to reach at-risk youth. Students will have the opportunity to submit their work into the National Photography Program for added recognition.
June 2009
Brevard Neighborhood Development Coalition | Melbourne, FL
Awarded: $50,000
Funding the Dorcas Outreach Center for Kids, (DOCK) in the Booker T. Washington neighborhood of Melbourne, FL. DOCK was created in response to the community’s desire to work toward restoring their neighborhood and in response to the children’s request for a “safe place” for out-of-school hours. DOCK has become a second home to many area children, a nurturing haven where they receive help with their homework, evidence-based life-skills training curricula, spiritual guidance and enrichment programs in the arts and sports. The DOCK serves 152 youth ranging from age 5 to 18 in their after-school, summer and special event programs.
CHILD PROTECTION AND PREVENTION:
February 2009
PREVENT! of Brevard | Melbourne, FL
Awarded: $25,000
Supporting CHOICES, a comprehensive violence prevention program, and ensuring program continuation through the fourth quarter of 2009. CHOICES serves 150 at risk youth, ages 12 to 14, primarily from Central Middle School located in Brevard County. Participating students reside in Brevard County’s zip codes with the highest number of delinquency referrals. The program develops skills that youth use to avoid violent behavior and also increases protective factors such as academic success. The grant will support the continuation of an evidence-based intervention, “Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways,” an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) model program.
JUVENILE JUSTICE:
November 2009
Delaware Center for Justice/Delaware Girls Initiative | Wilmington, DE
Awarded: $77,362
Providing an additional year of salary and benefits for the coordinator of the Delaware Girls Initiative (DGI). DGI is the result of a partnership between the Delaware Center for Justice, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and PACE Center for Girls. The sole mission of DGI is to advocate for a continuum of services that ensures gender-specific resources and programs for all girls at risk in Delaware. This support will activate three new elements of the overall strategy impacting substantially all girls in juvenile justice in the state. It will also enable the continuation of the education and advocacy activities designed to change the system.
August 2009
Crosswinds Youth Services | Tampa, FL
Awarded: $174,946
Supporting the launch of the Civil Citation Initiative in Brevard County. First-time juvenile offenders who have committed an eligible misdemeanor offense will be eligible. Youth are assessed using evidence-based tools and, as a result of that assessment, the youth or family may be referred to individual and family counseling, domestic violence education and/or substance abuse prevention. This approach recognizes that most of these problems are not criminal justice issues but represent community health problems that are most effectively addressed by getting the youth and family the help they need outside the juvenile justice system.
June 2009
Florida Juvenile Justice Foundation | Tallahassee, FL
Awarded: $100,000
Providing second-year funding that includes a $25,000 challenge in support of a collaborative effort with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Education to pilot a statewide, flexible scholarship program for youth transitioning out of the juvenile justice system. Youth who successfully complete their involvement with the juvenile justice system earn eligibility to apply for support to pursue academic, vocational or personal goals that cannot be met through other resources. The intent is to reinforce the definition of success beyond recidivism by supporting efforts enabling youth to connect with the work force or continue their education and to be a responsible citizen.
February 2009
Crosswinds Youth Services | Cocoa, FL
Awarded: $25,000
Funding a planning grant for the development of a civil citation program in Brevard County. The planning process will include an analysis of the of the key stakeholders in Brevard County; the development of the logic model which will identify short, mid and long-term goals; a Web site to focus and inform the community; and, a cost-saving analysis for the community. All of the evidence indicates that civil citation is one of the best alternatives for nonserious offenses, especially those occurring as a result of overreaction to zero tolerance policies and provides youth with an alternative to entry into the juvenile justice system.
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