“The Livingston Memorial Foundation presented $414,000 in grants to 30 Ventura County nonprofits for the 2011-12 year as the organization continues its mission of underwriting health care for poor and uninsured people in the area.”
“As she watched her sixth-grade son sprint to the stage and accept a future four-year college scholarship, Emily Roman exhaled a deep sigh of relief [...] Roman’s son was one of 25 Lee County middle and high school students who signed a contract Friday to stay in school, maintain good grades and meet with a mentor in exchange for a four-year college scholarship. The Take Stock in Children scholarship program, funded by local donations to the Foundation for Lee County Public Schools, is aimed at low-income, at-risk students.”
“[St. Frances Academy] was notified April 20 that it will receive a $157,400 grant from the Abell Foundation to pilot the boarding program for homeless male students. The Baltimore-based organization works to help find solutions to urban poverty and has a history of working with black men. Abell picked St. Frances because of its successful track record of placing students in colleges.”
“Five local organizations that are dedicated to helping youth, families and people living in poverty received grants Friday from the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Family Foundation. The foundation presented $35,000 in grants to the Family Crisis and Counseling Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Bartlesville, Youth and Family Services of Washington County, Mary Martha Outreach and Building Bridges.”
“Today's 4-year-olds will be the first to benefit from Brooklyn Center's efforts to improve third-grade reading skills. Armed with a three-year, $3 million grant from the McKnight Foundation and state literacy aid, the district plans to significantly beef up its preschool offerings, and then align literacy from there to third grade and on into secondary school [...] Most Brooklyn Center elementary students currently are making gains on standardized tests, a big achievement in the high-poverty, diverse and mobile district, said Randy Koch, principal at Earle Brown Elementary.”
“For every Detroit child who enters kindergarten ready to learn, Michigan taxpayers save $100,000, according to a study that calculates the economic value of preparing children for long-term educational success starting at birth. Detroit's One-Child School Readiness Dividend study, to be released at a news conference today, was commissioned by the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation in partnership with more than 20 organizations. The conclusions support prior research which showed evidence that children -- particularly low-income children -- who attend early education programs that prepare them are less likely to depend on taxpayer-funded services.”
“The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is providing an initial $12 million for an initiative to bring affordable fresh food to an estimated 1 million people statewide where studies have shown the grocery gap contributes to high rates of childhood obesity in children as well as hypertension and diabetes.”
“Sixty-seven organizations across New York State have received grants totaling $450,000, the New York Bar Foundation announced today [...] Thirteen grants will support Youth Court activities, while others will support programs that assist domestic violence victims, low-income immigrants, public service attorneys, vulnerable senior citizens and incarcerated women.”
“The arts initiative will bring an additional $1 million in the first year, including several foundation grants, as well as $10,000 for each school in arts supplies from Crayola and $10,000 per school in musical instruments from the NAMM Foundation, as well as teacher training [...] Children in high-poverty schools have less access to the arts than those in more affluent schools, a recent survey by the Education Department shows.”
“Whittier City School District is receiving a helping hand from State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson to fight ‘summer learning loss’ with the launch of the summertime educational program, Summer Matters 2012. Torlakson introduced the statewide program that will help low-income youths in Whittier at a conference Tuesday in San Francisco [...] Whittier City School District is one of the dozen summer learning programs in California chosen for funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as well as the Partnership for Children and Youth.”
“Funded solely through a charitable grant from Chicago's Comer Science and Education Foundation and launched at the end of February, the Medical Home Network focuses primarily on low-income women and children who seek medical attention in emergency rooms and return home, often with no medical follow-up and limited understanding of how to use the health care system.”
“The Healing Center received a $12,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation, said John Andrews, the center's executive director. The center serves all low-income residents, but it's also one of only two state-licensed facilities in Los Angeles County dedicated to serving the needs of urban-based Native Americans.”
“A new service unveiled Tuesday at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore can turn discarded items like soda cans and junk mail into homes. Not directly, but the new ReCycle for Homes center at Habitat Springfield will use the money from recycling paper, plastics and certain appliances to fund the organization's mission to provide housing for low-income Greene County residents [...] The project has been two years in the making, and was sponsored by several local organizations. The BKD Foundation donated $10,000. The Community Foundation of the Ozarks awarded the program a $10,000 grant. District O and the Department of Natural Resources also helped move the project along.”
“How important is a car to success on the job? Plenty, according to Family Matters of Greater Washington. Through a partnership with Wal-Mart and PNC Bank, and backed in part by a federal grant, the nonprofit group has teamed with the Milwaukee-based charity Ways to Work to give 200 poor families up to $6,000 to buy a used car [...] ‘They have incredible data that they’ve collected that measures the impact on lives by providing reliable transportation for low-income, underemployed individuals,’ said Michelle Gilliard, director of the Wal-Mart Foundation.”
“Action for Children, a nonprofit Columbus group that makes child-care referrals and works to strengthen the quality of care and early learning, commissioned ‘Progress Made. Ground Lost,’ which paints a picture of struggle for many families. It was funded by the Columbus Foundation [...] Good child care and preschool experiences are important, particularly for low-income children, said Diane Bennett, the CEO of Action for Children. Young children living in poverty know fewer words than their wealthy peers, she said. Early-childhood education can help develop vocabularies.”
“A $1.1 million grant will allow The Benefit Bank of South Carolina continue to link those working to overcome poverty with resources that can help them. The grant from the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation was announced last week. The S.C. Office of Rural Health, which runs the Benefit Bank program, intends to use the money to expand the program. It now has 1,800 trained counselors in 400 sites.”
“Evanoff said the organization began exploring how better to brand itself about two years ago, with a $100,000 grant from the St. Luke's Foundation. The name was chosen late last year, she said, and went into effect March 19 […] Guidestone also manages or provides support for three independent private nonprofit groups: Stepstone Academy, Seeds of Literacy and Invision […] Evanoff said Invision is a new private counseling service. ‘Many of the people we service are close to the poverty level,’ she said. ‘We have developed successful counseling practices and wanted to be able to bring them to a different population that is not eligible for Medicaid.’”
“The rankings, produced by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, compare counties throughout the state — and nation — based on both physical and socioeconomic factors […] Researchers determined the health of a county using five main factors: premature deaths, low-birth-weight infants, the percentage of people who say they are in poor or fair health and the number of days people reported being in poor physical or mental health. They also considered other measures such as smoking and obesity rates, teen births, preventable hospital stays, childhood poverty rates, education and air pollution levels.”
“Free tax preparation and E-Filing is offered to all middle- to low-income individuals and families with no age limitations. Small business owners also are welcomed. If your income is less than $22,000, you may be eligible for a refund from New Mexico. The help comes from volunteer tax councilors and auxiliary personnel under the auspices of the AARP Foundation in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service.”
“In general, the study shows that excessive drinking rates are highest in the Northern states, while Southern states have the highest rates of teen births, sexually transmitted infections and children in poverty […] The rankings come from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The rankings use death rates, air pollution rates, income levels, health access, physical inactivity rates and access to healthy foods.”
“The Agenda 21 document's preamble states: ‘We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being’ […] The entire sustainable communities planning process is expected to last three years and to cost $2.3 million. The cost includes the $1.5 million federal grant, a $50,000 cash match from the Kansas Health Foundation and in-kind contributions from participating communities.”
“The Gates Foundation gave $2.4 million to study and address the so-called IB Diploma Gap. Several studies, including one just released by the University of Chicago, have found IB participation has a powerful effect on minority and low-income students' chances of going to college and succeeding there.”
“The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation yesterday said it will provide $12 million to a program intended to increase the supply of affordable, fresh food in some of the state’s most underserved communities.”
“This is the home of Starfinder Foundation, a Philadelphia nonprofit founded in 2002 that provides free soccer programs to more than 600 underserved youth each year […] Starfinder recently received two one-year $50,000 grants from the Walmart Foundation and the Fund for Children of The Philadelphia Foundation, respectively, to support its programs.”
“As part of its spring fund drive, public radio station WMUK has partnered with nonprofit Open Doors and the Kalamazoo Community Foundation to raise money to combat homelessness. Western Michigan University said in a news release today that for every dollar up to $150,000 pledged to WMUK before or during the radio station's April 14 to 20 fundraising campaign, the foundation will donate 10 percent of what's raised to Open Doors, which works with low-income and homeless families in Kalamazoo.”
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