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SOS Final Awardees 2010
Organization: Aim High St. Louis
Grant Requested: $25,000
Grant Approved: $25,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Education
Mission Statement: Aim High empowers motivated middle school students from high risk environments to strengthen their character, self-confidence, determination and initiative through a challenging academic and personal enrichment program.
GRANT: $25,000 for Operations funding - transportation, educational materials
Organization: ALIVE, Inc.
Grant Requested: $20,000
Grant Approved: $20,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2009, 2010
Organization Focus: Social Service
Mission Statement: To provide counseling, emergency sanctuary, create awareness, restore safety and peace to children and adults impacted with domestic abuse.
GRANT: $20,000 to fund Alive’s Nights of Safety program providing temporary housing up to 6 weeks for women and children waiting for more permanent housing.
Organization: Almost Home
Grant Requested: $15,000
Grant Approved: $15,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Social Services
Mission Statement: Almost Home provides housing, care and training for previously homeless teenage mothers and their children.
GRANT: $15,000 to fund operations servicing mothers ages 12-19 and their children for 2 years with housing, counseling, education, family skills and other support services.
Organization: Angel's Arms
Grant Requested: $15,000
Grant Approved: $15,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2007, 2010
Organization Focus: Social Services
Mission Statement: To provide 5 foster homes for sibling groups.
GRANT: $15,000 to provide clothing, lessons, equipment, camp fees, musical instruments and tuition assistance.
Organization: Annie's Hope - The Bereavement Center For Kids
Grant Requested: $10,000
Grant Approved: $10,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Social Services Mission Statement: To provide comprehensive support services for children, teens and their families who are grieving the death of someone significant.
GRANT: $10,000 grant to fund registration fees, materials and volunteer training for a 6 week support group school based program.
Organization: Belle Center, Inc.
Grant Requested: $12,000
Grant Approved: $12,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Education
Mission Statement: The center provides a progressive, family-centered inclusive approach to education and community life that supports children with disabilities. GRANT: $12,000 to fund preschool tuition and therapy scholarships for the Belle children with disabilities and developmental delays, which provides them with crucial therapies (occupational, physical and speech/language) to improve their health and development.
Organization: Caring For Kids
Grant Requested: $10,000
Grant Approved: $5,000 Year(s) of Grants: 2008, 2010
Organization Focus: Social Services
Mission Statement: Caring for Kids seeks to address crisis situations and fill the gap in the juvenile justice system by providing essential resources which keep children with their families and out of foster care, help children complete their education and improve the quality of life of the children they serve.
GRANT: $5,000 to meet basic urgent needs of children, which monies will support a 2010 operating budget of $45,000.
Organization: Circle of Concern
Grant Requested: $10,000
Grant Approved: $10,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Social Services
Mission Statement: To provide food and long term and emergency assistance to low income families in western St. Louis County and assists families in re-establishing themselves as productive community members.
GRANT: $10,000 to fund the "Kids Bag Program" which distributes bags of food, activity books and games to families every 4 weeks during the summer months when free school lunches and child care are not available. It anticipates distributing 2,000 bags this year.
Organization: Griffin Center
Grant Requested: $11,000
Grant Approved: $11,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Education
Mission Statement: To provide free of charge after school tutoring, recreation services and summer camps for children ages 5 -13 living in six East St. Louis public housing projects aimed at increasing the academic and social skills of the children. GRANT: $11,000 for One Learning Lab (Weather-Owens site) serving 85 students with after school tutoring, homework assistance and a staffed computer lab. Funding covers three staff positions: two general tutors and a computer instructor.
Organization: Let's Start
Grant Requested: $10,000
Grant Approved: $9,500
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Social Services
Mission Statement: Let's Start, an organization led by and for formerly incarcerated women, aims to break the cycle of incarceration in families by using the personal experiences of its participants to support recovery, educate the community, and inform policy.
GRANT: $10,000 to pay for bus trips to the women's prison for the children( and caregivers) of incarcerated women.
Organization: Ready Readers
Grant Requested: $15,000
Grant Approved: $15,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2009, 2010
Organization Focus: Education
Mission Statement: To inspire preschool children from low-income communities to become readers by reading aloud to them and by increasing their exposure to quality books and stimulating reading-related activities.
GRANT: $15,000 to provide the entire read aloud program to 335 additional children and provide funds to buy 2300 new high quality books for the children to take home.
Organization: St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program
Grant Requested: $17,500
Grant Approved: $17,500
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Health
Mission Statement: To provide individuals with mobility problems and disabilities access to free home medical equipment and assistive technology equipment at no cost through a recycle and reuse program.
GRANT: $17,500 to staff an operations manager and to purchase a used cargo van and a HubScrub to clean and sanitize equipment indoors.
Organization: St. Louis Internship
Grant Requested: $10,000
Grant Approved: $10,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Education
Mission Statement: To provide inspiration, support and professional development to high school students with financial need so they can obtain valuable internships in professional settings; provide to business partners access to motivated, well-trained and talented employees.
GRANT: $10,000 to support 5 internships ($2,000 each) toward the total cost of $5,000 per intern (training, eight week summer intern salaries, transportation, uniforms, payroll tax, and year round college preparation and networking activities).
Organization: Mildred Brady and Rena Martin Charitable Eye Foundation
Grant Requested: $10,000
Grant Approved: $10,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2007, 2009
Organization Focus: Health
Mission Statement: To provide comprehensive eye care (eye exams, glasses, laser treatments, surgery, low vision aids and medical referrals) to the homeless, indigent, and medically disenfranchised individuals. GRANT: $10,000 to help cover the cost of providing lenses, frames and low vision aids to Clinic patients.
Organization: Volunteer In Medicine
Grant Requested: $15,000
Grant Approved: $15,000
Year(s) of Grants: 2010
Organization Focus: Health
Mission Statement: To provide free primary health care to St. Charles and Lincoln County adult residents not covered by Medicare, Medicaid or private health insurance and whose household income is less than twice the federal poverty guideline. It is staffed by non paid physicians, health and clerical professionals.
GRANT: $15,000 to purchase prescriptions medicines that are not otherwise donated by pharmaceutical companies and physician offices.
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