2011 Trustee Grants
- Cranbrook Schools Horizons—Upward Bound
- Neighborhood Youth Association
- Boys and Girls Club of Lake County
- Sequor Foundation
- Volunteers of America NNE
- Ceasefire Illinois
- Outward Bound Bay Area Center
- New York Road Runners
- The MGR Foundation: Team M3
- Stonington Community Center
- Greater Newark Conservancy
- KERA Healthy Families Initiative
- Russell Byers Charter School
- Colorado UpLift
- Urban Youth Ministries
- Boys and Girls Club Gulf Coast
- American Trauma Society, PA Division
- SOS Outreach University
Cranbrook Schools Horizons—Upward Bound
- Contact:DEBRA DEBOSE WHITING
- Grant amount:$Get Fit—Stay Safe Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:JOSEPH B. ANDERSON, JR.
The mission of Horizons-Upward Bound is to prepare students from the Detroit metropolitan area with limited opportunities to enter and succeed in post-secondary education. The Get Fit – Stay Fit program will supplement the summer's phase of intramural sport programs which offer athletic activities at the end of the school day. This program will focus on providing lessons in Tai Chi to 180 students in order to help build confidence, character, and self-esteem in each student, as well as support the development of positive conflict resolution skills.
topNeighborhood Youth Association
- Contact:VIVA KRASINSKI,
- Grant amount:$Personal Best Health and Physical Fitness Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:LYNN M.O. BRICKNER
Founded in 1906, the Neighborhood Youth Association (NYA) is a non-profit organization serving low-income, troubled youth and families in the Venice, CA area. Personal Best serves 120 youth between the ages of six and 18, who are primarily at-risk Latinos that speak English as a second language. The NYA's Personal Best Health and Physical Fitness program helps youth develop basic skills for recreation and healthy living by providing a variety of fitness opportunities, nutrition education, and integrated life-skills such as cooking, science, math, and vocabulary. The program focuses on the fundamentals of fitness by integrating a specific exercise routine into daily recreational programming and incorporating a variety of activities into the classroom. A martial arts program will continue to be a major component of achieving the goals of the program.
topBoys and Girls Club of Lake County
- Contact:CESILIE PRICE
- Grant amount:$Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:ROBERT W. CRAWFORD, JR.
Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic throughout the country, especially among young people living in poverty. The Boys and Girls Club of Lake County serves Waukegan, North Chicago and Zion/Bentley which is an area that ranks fourth in the nation for childhood obesity. Funding supports an enhanced program to combat this issue, including a new academic science component and expanded fitness/recreation and healthy lifestyle activities.
topSequor Foundation
- Contact:RICHARD ANDERSON
- Grant amount:$Texas Partnership for Out—of—School Time Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:JOHN L. CROMPTON, PH.D.
Sequor Foundation is a charitable foundation that works to coordinate with multiple non-profit agencies to better meet the needs of at-risk youth in Texas. One such non-profit that the foundation has partnered with is the Afterschool Alliance. This organization is working to ensure that all children have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs. The Afterschool Alliance is aiming to create a sustainable structure of statewide, regional, and local partnerships, secure necessary resources and support statewide systems to ensure that programs are high quality.
topVolunteers of America NNE
- Contact:PATRICIA A. MURTAGH
- Grant amount:$Camp POSTCARD: "Fit, Fed and Fun for Life" Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:ENDICOTT P. DAVISON, JR.
Camp P.O.S.T.C.A.R.D. (Police Officers Striving to Create and Reinforce Dreams) is a Volunteers of America camp that serves some of Maine's most deserving fifth and sixth graders through direct involvement and mentoring with a variety of law enforcement and criminal justice professionals. The camp will implement a cognitive-based healthy living curriculum, "Fit, Fed and Fun for Life", which will build awareness in the power of healthy eating and outdoor activity, and help support a sustained healthy lifestyle to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity.
topCeasefire Illinois
- Contact:Luis R. Vargas or Candice M. Kane
- Grant amount:$Chicago Project for Violence Prevention/Ceasefire Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:JAMES R. DONNELLEY
The purpose of Ceasefire Illinois is to reduce the rate of killing in the City of Chicago to equal or less than the national rate and to provide support and guidance to individuals at high risk of involvement in shootings and to encourage them to follow a positive lifestyle. The project combines a public health strategy with a criminal justice approach to violence prevention. This grant will support the planning, preparation and implementation of a series of peace conferences serving at-risk African-American and Hispanic youth between the ages of 15 and 24 in three Chicago communities. This includes a series of conversations, meetings and day-long seminars to encourage peaceful conflict resolution. Initial focus will be on youths identified as being at highest risk in order to interrupt escalated risk and violence.
topOutward Bound Bay Area Center
- Contact:CAROLINE REICH
- Grant amount:$Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:ROBERT JAUNICH II
Since 2008, the Outward Bound Bay Area Center has worked with over 1200 young people and 40 local educators through school-based partnerships and a variety of programming tailored to the needs of each partner. Outward Bound serves as gateways to the natural world, reaching youth in underserved urban settings who might not otherwise have access to outdoor recreation. Funding from the NRF supports student participation in three to five day urban or wilderness courses, as well as furthering the partnership with area non-profits to continue the growth of the program
topNew York Road Runners
- Contact:ELIZABETH CARR
- Grant amount:$African Runners Art Exhibit Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:ELSIE CRUM MCCABE
New York Road Runners will partner with the Museum of African Art to create an exhibit focused on running, contextualizing the art of running by telling the stories of four accomplished African runners. This will be offered free of cost, and seeks to improve children's knowledge of an appreciation for the African identity, physical fitness, and the connection between perseverance and personal achievement.
topThe MGR Foundation: Team M3
- Contact:CATHY BRAUND
- Grant amount:$Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:JOHN W. MCCARTER, JR.
The MGR Foundation is committed to overcoming social and educational barriers and creating innovative programs that positively impact communities. Team M3: Chicago Student MentorRun program is the foundation's health and wellness program in which adult mentors are paired with at-risk Chicago public high school students to train for, participate in, and complete the Chicago Marathon. This program serves nine area schools, with over 230 students and 96 adult mentors.
topStonington Community Center
- Contact:JAMES W. TRUSCIO
- Grant amount:$Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:FRANCIS P. PANDOLFI
Stonington Community Center requests funding for the establishment of a new arts center, which will be open seven days a week, with an emphasis on serving youth who have been identified as being at high risk for inappropriate alcohol and drug use. The center will be a multi-faceted art center providing programs, mentors, coordinated activities, targeted participation and open studio use. Stonington Community Center aims to help neighbors become friends to build a strong, vibrant community.
topGreater Newark Conservancy
- Contact:ROBIN L. DOUGHERTY,
- Grant amount:$Urban Farming/Food Access Initiative Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:KATHRYN A. PORTER
The Urban Farming/Food Access Initiative is a pilot program which expands on the current Community Greening project. Its goal is to help low-income inner-city residents increase access to affordable, healthy foods. Like many urban centers, Newark's residents have limited access to fresh, nutritious foods and have a high rate of obesity. In order to improve access to healthy, fresh foods for Newark's low income, inner-city population, Greater Newark Conservancy is establishing nearly two dozen urban farms on city-owned vacant lots in Newark, and guiding residents in the process of growing their own produce. Funding from the NRF reachs 96 families at 12 gardening sites.
topKERA Healthy Families Initiative
- Contact:DANNY HENLEY,
- Grant amount:$Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:ROBERT D. ROGERS
In 2011, KERA engaged 100 low-income families with young children living in conditions of economic and educational impoverishment in their programs. Through training, events, and regular exercise activities, this project will empower families to use the resources available in their own neighborhood through all seasons. It is structured as a replicable leadership model for future years.
topRussell Byers Charter School
- Contact:LAURADA BYERS
- Grant amount:$Healthy Leaders Program Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:JONATHAN D. SCOTT
The Russell Byers Charter School provides students a safe, stimulating environment with a rigorous academic education grounded in expeditionary learning. The school has partnered with Playworks, a nonprofit organization that supports learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play, as well as physical activities throughout the school day. The Healthy Leaders Program will provide the structure to integrate Playworks programming into the daily lives of students through active games and positive conflict resolution.
topColorado UpLift
- Contact:CHRISTIE ZIEGLER
- Grant amount:$Grant - $5,000
- Trustee sponsor:JON J. SEAL
Colorado Uplift serves disadvantaged youth from fourth grade through college in the Denver area through four comprehensive areas – In School, After School, Adventure, and Post-Secondary. NRF support will help in reaching over 3,600 at-risk youth in the Denver Public School System with the mission of building long-term, life-changing relationships. Colorado UpLift promotes overall education, development and healthy lifestyles in a supportive, holistic academic environment focused on the success and well-being of urban youth.
topUrban Youth Ministries
- Contact:MICHAEL G. PAINTER
- Grant amount:$Grant - $25,000
- Trustee sponsor:JON J. SEAL
Urban Youth Ministries addresses the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of at-risk youth in the Denver metropolitan area through a comprehensive support system. Participants, who may lack healthy, supportive relationships, take part in mentoring and faith-based programming, which incorporates supportive group recreation, and provides a social network that may help young people develop in positive and healthful ways. Funds from the NRF help to continue programming that works to bring a feeling of wholeness to a young person.
topBoys and Girls Club Gulf Coast
- Contact:LESLEY BACK
- Grant amount:$Triple Play Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:ROBERT A. STUART, JR.
Mississippi youth face many challenges, including the continued effects of Hurricane Katrina and the nation's highest obesity rate. The Triple Play program will provide daily physical activity challenges, health and nutrition classes, and social recreation. This program will give youth life-long skills to improve their health and the health of their families. Triple Play, a program that addresses the body, mind and soul of participants, was piloted in 2009 with NRF support. Funding will help establish this successful program and expand it to all the youth BGCGC serves on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
topAmerican Trauma Society, PA Division
- Contact:LINDSAY SICA
- Grant amount:$Dangers of the Unknown Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:JOHN M. TEMPLETON, JR., M.D.
ATSPA is a non-profit trauma prevention education organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering, disability and death due to trauma. Each year, hundreds of thousands of young people under 18 suffer from concussions. With each successive concussion, the effects are more serious and take longer to recover from, and the likelihood of a future concussion is increased. Funding will help develop the Dangers of the Unknown, an educational program to teach young athletes, coaches, trainers, teachers, parents and recreation personnel about the dangerous effects of concussions on children.
topSOS Outreach University
- Contact:SETH EHRLICH
- Grant amount:$Grant - $30,000
- Trustee sponsor:R. THAYER TUTT, JR.
SOS Outreach University is a multi-year program which provides leadership training to 570 at-risk youth at ten national sites for the 2010-2011 year. The program incorporates consistent adult mentorship, service learning, life skills workshops, and a core value curriculum while using skiing, snowboarding, or summer wilderness experiences as the hook to maintain participant interest. The goal of SOS outreach programs is to increase resiliency and protective factors in underserved youth.
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