October Grant Awards

The Foundation is pleased to announce grants to the followig orgnizations:

• Environmental Leaning for Kids- focuses on helping underserved children in the Denver areas gain access to outdoor learning activities. They offer STEM related learning activities and do this through environmental engagement.
• Denise Louie Education Center –a Seattle organization who works to address education gaps in early child children, particularly for immigrant, refugee and low income students.
• Street Business School –Colorado and works with the most vulnerable women in Uganda, Africa. They offer business and entrepreneur skills to women in need, working to help them overcome the many barriers they face to gain independence.
• Happy Trails for Kids –  Santa Monica, CA  works with foster children offering them Camp experiences. They use the camp structure to help these kids overcome the many challenges they face as foster children.
• YWCA Central Carolinas – Women in Transition program, a program in Charlotte that houses women and their children in need and works to provide them the skills needed to obtain employment and permanent housing
• Respite Care of San Antonio – San Antonio, TX who care for children with developmental and cognitive disabilities and children who have had traumatic physical injuries. They work with the children and their families on development skills and how to care for themselves.
• The University of AZ Foundation, Valley Fever Center Excellence Fund established to improve understanding, medical care, and research about this disease.