Charity for Change has received a $10,000 grant from Suncoast Credit Union for improving emotional well-being and academic performance for at-risk students through its social-emotional learning (SEL) program for elementary students. The program’s goal is to improve the emotional well-being and academic performance for at-risk students and engage a minimum of 300 additional at-risk children [...]
Charity for Change has received a $1,500 grant from State Farm to add curriculum content and videos for its evidence-based Charity for Change Program, which successfully addresses developmental outcomes: social-emotional learning (SEL), academic achievement; and civic/cultural development in participating schools. “The Charity for Change educational program is an essential part of providing a bright future [...]
Child Care of Southwest Florida introduced additional STEAM instruction – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math – to students through a generous grant from the Cape Coral Community Foundation. The STEAM initiative brought hands-on learning opportunities to students in the nonprofit’s pre-Kindergarten program, as well as new curriculum and lesson plans for teachers to implement [...]
Guadalupe Center has received a $55,000 grant from the United Way of Collier and the Keys to enhance its After-school Tutoring & Summer Enrichment Program. The United Way’s Community Investment Award will help provide academic enrichment to an estimated 600 Immokalee students in kindergarten, first and second grades who are designated as “at risk” for [...]
The holidays and the new year are brighter for several Southwest Florida Families, thanks to a $20,000 gift donated to Community Cooperative by FineMark National Bank & Trust. With the donation, Community Cooperative has been able to help eight families thus far with housing and other holiday needs and the list is growing. “We are [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida, Inc. is pleased to announce it has received a $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Collier County. These funds will support vital Junior Achievement educational programs that provide students lessons on career/work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills. These funds invest in the infrastructure of the organization, to build [...]
Healthcare Network received a $27,500 grant from United Way of Collier County to support its integrated behavioral health program. The grant will fund care for 900 patients. Healthcare Network’s behavioral health providers cared for more than 6,200 patients in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019. Integrated behavioral health addresses traditional mental health concerns and [...]
Charity for Change has received a $15,000 grant from The Arthrex Charitable Giving program. The grant will provide for the updating of curriculum which will support the transition from classrooms to eLearning. The social-emotional learning curriculum will connect children while they are out of school with updated social-emotional learning videos and content. The grant will [...]
The Southwest Florida Community Foundation has approved a $15,000 grant for Charity for Change to add and update curriculum content, update its website and develop new evaluation materials for its 11-year-old Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) educational programs. The grant will allow Charity for Change to: Hire a consultant to create new SEL content to augment existing [...]
Earn to Learn FL, a matched-savings financial assistance program, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Fifth Third Foundation to further empower low-to-moderate income students through financial education, asset building and workforce development. The generous grant will allow Earn to Learn FL to expand programs that offer personalized financial capability training, success coaching and [...]
Funds will help nonprofit provide emergency construction services for local homeowners in need Lee BIA Builders Care, the nonprofit charitable arm of the Lee Building Industry Association (BIA), has received a $5,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. Funds will support Lee BIA Builders Care in its mission to provide emergency construction services [...]
Avow has received a $75,000 grant from the Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF), founders of the Naples Winter Wine Festival, to support its youth bereavement programs. “Since 1983, Avow has cared for Collier County’s terminally ill residents and their loved ones,” said Jaysen Roa, president and CEO of Avow companies. “We continue to recognize [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida announced today that it has received grants totaling $7,000 to fund JA work readiness and financial literacy programming. The grants, from State Farm Insurance, are part of a larger statewide initiative totaling $60,000 that will support Junior Achievement programs in 11 localities throughout Florida, enabling over 5,000 young people to [...]
Guardian ad Litem Foundation, 20th Judicial Circuit, was awarded a $10,000 grant from The League Club to support its vital Beds for Kids initiative. Beds for Kids is a program that allows Guardian ad Litem volunteer advocates to request a new bed for Southwest Florida families who are willing to take in a vulnerable child, [...]
Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida has received a $50,000 grant from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation to help further its programs throughout Collier, Lee and Charlotte counties. “This grant will enable us to extend Junior Achievement programs to 2,500 more students in Southwest Florida, helping our goal of reaching 12,500 students during the 2018-2019 [...]
Video has helped to reach thousands of viewers The Yes on Conservation 20/20 Campaign in partnership with Pelican Media has received a $1,000 micro-grant from the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP) to supplement the production of a campaign video to assist in educating and advocating for the passage of the Conservation 20/20 non-binding County [...]
