The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Has Awarded $172,820 in Grants to Impact Multiple Sectors of Life Including Assisting Older Adults and…

The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Has Awarded $172,820 in Grants to Impact Multiple Sectors of Life Including Assisting Older Adults and Caregivers

GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 14 -- The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation issued the following news release:

The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation has awarded $172,820 in grants to impact local non-profits serving many sectors in our community, such as arts and culture, community and neighborhood development, education, the environment, and health and human services. Twenty-one local organizations received grants from the Community Foundation through grant application processes.

About the Funds for Greater Green Bay Grants Program

The Funds for Greater Green Bay is a collection of field of interest and unrestricted funds of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, and in partnership with generous donors who have funds at the Community Foundation.

Field of Interest Funds support particular interest areas, causes, or specific geographic areas. Unrestricted Funds are flexible funds of the Community Foundation that respond to the current needs of people in Brown, Kewaunee, and Oconto counties. Many people will be impacted with these grants, including youth, elderly and low-income.

The grants are awarded based on a competitive application process including a review by a grants team consisting of community volunteers. Two grant cycles are offered annually for the Funds for Greater Green Bay. The Funds for Greater Green Bay grants awarded are:

Arts & Culture

Green Bay East High School: Adaptive Music Instruments

The Adaptive Music Program provides education through music for students with severe cognitive, physical, or emotional disabilities. Music helps these students learn to function independently within a team and develop other skills to function within school, family, work, and community settings. This grant will enhance the current set of classroom instruments in order to offer these students an experience that is age and skill level appropriate, and musically authentic.

Green Bay East High School: Independence Day Parade 2014

The Green Bay East High School Marching Band has been invited to perform in the National Independence Day Parade in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 2014. This grant will help defray some of the costs for low-income students to participate.

Saint Norbert College: Running North the Green Bay Project

St. Norbert College, in partnership with Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater, will engage the Green Bay community, children and families of the Oneida Nation, professional healthcare providers, medical students, and St. Norbert and Menominee College students by providing workshops to constituencies through personal and artistic enrichment. Programming will include exploring stories through movement, text and music, performances including participants from the targeted communities, workshops for caregivers incorporating artistic endeavors and creativity, movement workshops for college students, and a performance showcase and cross community dialogue. This grant will help support community and intergenerational workshops, and demonstrations at local schools.

Community & Neighborhood Development

Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity: Truck for the ReStore

The ReStore accepts donations of new and used home improvement and building materials and then sells them so that the proceeds can be used for funding Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity's local operations. By being able to offer materials pick-up, the ReStore is able to acquire donations, especially from commercial donors. This grant will help to purchase a new truck that will be used to collect donations for years to come.

Education

Green Bay West High School: After School Tutoring Bridge Program

The program is designed to bridge the achievement gap for West High School ninth grade students by easing the transition between middle and high school. The program will provide tutoring four nights a week afterschool and during the summer. This grant will help with staffing and other needs.

Howe Community Center: Parenting Classes

The Howe Community Center would like to expand their parenting classes to families with children over 5 years of age, including a Parent Cafe, which is a structured parent-led support group for families to learn protective behaviors for their families and receive support from other parents. The grant will cover the cost of staff time, training, travel, and materials.

Junior Achievement of WI, Inc. - Brown County Junior Achievement volunteers teach K-12 educational programs about financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Junior Achievement programs in middle school engage students and help illustrate the benefits of staying in school and the relevance to their futures. This grant will cover the costs of programming for nine classrooms at Franklin Middle School.

Literacy Partners of Kewaunee County, Inc.: Service Expansion

Literacy Partners has found that tutors and students need more options for training in different areas of literacy (including health, computer, and basic education) and in different ways than are currently being offered. By expanding current class offerings and developing a classroom program to decrease the waitlist, Literacy Partners will attend to emerging community needs. This grant will fund some of these capacity building needs.

School District of Howard Suamico: iConnect

The School District of Howard Suamico and Big Brothers Big Sisters are collaborating to create the first structured community afterschool program in the Howard and Suamico communities. Mentors and students from three schools will meet at Green Bay Community Church, be provided with a nutritious snack and monthly meal, and receive academic and social emotional support. This grant will fund a bus to transport students, academic resources, arts and craft supplies, and other materials. Environment

Greater Green Bay YMCA, Inc.: Outdoor Environmental Education

Franklin Middle School's 7th grade will have an experiential learning opportunity through the YMCA's Outdoor Environmental Education (OEE) Program. This 3-day 2-night program allows students to experience learning outside the classroom (aligning with WI state standards of curriculum), while bonding and forming relationships with other students and teachers. This grant will allow approximately 185 students to participate in the experience by covering the costs for their meals and program supplies. Health & Human Services

Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay: Unmet Needs Fund

The Boys & Girls Club created the Unmet Needs Fund to financially assist youth with one-time unmet needs. Some needs that have been met to date are: replacing a club member's stolen backpack and school supplies; purchasing athletic shoes so a club member could join her school's volleyball team; and buying two club members two week's of food when their mother was unexpectedly jailed. This grant will support the Unmet Needs Fund at the Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay.

Cerebral Palsy, Inc: Alternative Programs for Children's Services

The CP Center is seeing a trend where children receive a physician's prescription for therapy but the family does not have insurance options to access it, either to the fullest extent as was prescribed or at all. As a result, the child is waitlisted indefinitely or receives less than the needed frequency of therapy, leading to further regression of skills and behavior. This grant will help with some of the costs of the Support Specialist for the alternative therapy program and financial assistance for services.

Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin: Child Forensic Interview Training

Evidence based training will provide child forensic interview instruction to 30 local interviewers from Child Protective Services and local law enforcement. These additional interviewers will enable Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center to increase the number of abused children served. Funding will help bring a nationally certified trainer to the Green Bay area.

Golden House: Becoming a Survivor

Golden House will pilot a program to provide skills and programming to victims of domestic violence so they can achieve a long term, more stable situation, allowing them to make longer lasting changes. Victims would have the time to heal, learn to trust, get a better understanding of their relationships, become employed, and set goals for a life free of abuse. This grant will provide funding to help to determine if this type of victim support will provide better long term outcomes for Golden House clients.

New Community Shelter: Emergency Shelter Program

The Emergency Shelter Program has a capacity to serve 98 adults in the emergency shelter program and is staffed 24/7. Upon entering the shelter, every person is expected to be sober and free from the influence of drugs and alcohol. Individuals are provided with case management, education, and help connecting to services they need to get back on their feet. This grant will help with some of the operating expenses of the shelter.

About the Older Adults Quality of Life Grants Program

As the population of those 60 and older grows by 10,000 each day in this country, the needs of older adults and their caregivers are on the rise. The growing older adult population also provides a great opportunity to our community as an untapped, experienced resource. In response to this need and opportunity, the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation continues to focus on the older adult population's needs and contributions, and is awarding $58,200 to non-profit programs that support wellness for those over 60, services for their caregivers, and community engagement of older adults. The Older Adults Quality of Life Grants awarded are:

Clarity Care: Help at Home program broadens options for the elderly and disabled living in poverty, increases their quality of life, and helps reduce the number of premature institutional placements by providing services that the clients need (mostly non-medical) in order to remain independent. In 2013, the Help at Home program served 122 clients in the Green Bay area, more than double from 2012.This grant will provide home visit costs for 1,514 hours of delivered home care services to those who cannot otherwise afford the services.

Door County Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc.: Memory in Development Program (MIND) in Kewaunee County is a comprehensive brain enhancement and support program, which empowers both those with dementia and caregivers through enhanced access to education, strategies, and support in a socially empowering atmosphere. This program is a partnership with Door County Memorial Hospital, the Aging and Disasbilities Resource Center (ADRC), NEW Curative Rehabilitation and other organizations serving Kewaunee County. This grant will cover the cost of the program in Kewaunee County.

Education Television Productions of Northeast Wisconsin: Seniority is a television program that provides valuable information to seniors and senior caregivers by addressing a broad selection of topics that can make an impact on this growing population. This grant will cover approximately half of the costs for four Bridging the Gap segments for the Seniority television series. Bridging the Gap segments showcase how the youth population is interacting with the senior population to produce positive outcomes.

N.E.W. Curative Rehabilitation, Inc.: Sustaining Adult Day Care is for people with Alzheimer's and related conditions, as well as those with physical disabilities regardless of one's ability to pay. Caregivers receive relief from the duties of caring for their loved one, while the loved one is provided supervision and personal care assistance as well as the opportunity to participate in activities, socialization, and a meal. This grant will provide funding for families who cannot afford the full hourly fee.

Salvation Army Green Bay: Senior Program provides a variety of services and activities for seniors to stay independent, help alleviate seniors' loneliness and helplessness, and improve their emotional and physical health. This grant will help cover some of the costs of the program.

Volunteer Center Inc. of Brown County: Neighborhood Volunteer Connection offered in collaboraton with the Aging and Disasbilities Resource Center of Brown County, will help older adults and people with disabilities with routine home upkeep, simple chores and services and provide the additional benefit of social connection. This program is a year-round volunteer-based project that identifies seniors in need, and the Volunteer Center recruits, screens and places volunteers (individuals, families, and corporate groups) to assist those seniors. Many of the volutneers that the Volunteer Center plans to recruit are seniors themselves. The grant will help cover some of the costs of the program, including project coordination, and expenses for equipment.

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