Grants awarded in February 2024
The Foundation is pleased to suupport the following organizations:
- Boys Grow Corp., Kansas City, MO – Mentoring KC youth through agricultural entrepreneurship.
- Raising a Reader Massachusetts -focuses on the whole family when facing the issues around proficient reading skills for the underserved.
- The Kwek Society, Arlington, VA- works with Indigenous women students helping them overcome the barriers around lacking the needs for their periods.
- Empact- Suicide Prevention Center, Tempe, AZ – works particularly youths, in addresses the issues causing suicide keeping youth off drugs and alcohol.
- Creative Action Institute, Ipswich, MA- works with girls and their families in East Africa, working with them to overcome the challenges of staying in school.
- Rise Augusta – Augusta, GA – works with at risk students in the Augusta area to expand their reading and tutoring programs.
- Tuesday’s Children – New York- They work with children who have experienced the loss of parents through either military/war type events /mass shootings for their youth and career mentoring programs.
- World Relief Southern CA – works with immigrants and refugee children.
- Unlocking Communities – Unlocking Communities works with Haiti women, providing them opportunities to become entrepreneurs with though water filtration systems and cookstoves.
- Saint Rock Haiti Foundation – another organization that works with women in Haiti, working to help them become financial stable through microloans and trainings.