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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
August 2007
Great Explorations | St. Petersburg, FL
Awarded: $100,000
Ongoing support for Foster Great Futures, a comprehensive youth outreach project targeting foster children and at-risk children including teens aging out of the foster care system, by giving them opportunities and tools to adapt Great Explorations to serve their own needs and interests. Through mentoring, job shadowing and direct experience, children and youth explore careers in education and youth development; business and museum management; exhibit and program design as well as construction. The program expects to engage 1,275 youth from the ages of 7 to 25 throughout the year.
June 2006
Great Explorations
| St. Petersburg, FL
Awarded: $750,000
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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