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Jaguars Foundation awards $258,000 in grants
The Jaguars Foundation board awarded $258,000 in its second grant cycle of 2010 to 11 nonprofit organizations serving economically and socially disadvantaged children and families in Northeast Florida.
The awards brought the total grant awards for 2010 to more than $975,000.
Led by Chair and CEO Delores Barr Weaver, the foundation has given more than $13.8 million since 1995 to youth-serving programs in the Jacksonville area of Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.
“Our dream of the Jaguars Foundation began even before Jacksonville was awarded the 30th NFL franchise in 1993, and we awarded our first grants before the team played its first game in 1995,” said Weaver.
“I am proud of the Jaguars partners for making a million-dollar commitment annually to support the foundation’s grant-making and other important programs for youth and their families.”
The Jaguars Foundation does not solicit contributions nor hold fundraising events.
The following general program grants were awarded in the second cycle of 2010:
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida, $51,000, for the NFL Youth Education Town in Brentwood.
• Empowerment Resources, $18,000, for the “Journey into Womanhood” leadership development and mentoring program for girls.
• I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless, $20,000, for capital improvements to the center’s children’s building to improve children’s health care services.
• Independent Living Re-source Center, $20,000, for the youth transition program for Nassau County and Baker County special-needs high school students.
• Junior Achievement of Florida’s First Coast, $25,000, for financial literacy education for girls.
• Knots4Kids, $5,000, for a character development program for males ages 12-17.
• Limelight Theatre, $25,000, for the children and teen theater program in St. Johns County.
• Metro Kids Konnection, $22,000, for an after-school and summer program at Cleveland Arms Apartments, a HUD-subsidized housing community, and the surrounding neighborhood.
• National Council of Negro Women’s Child Watch Partnership of Jacksonville, $25,000, for an after-school and summer program for girls at the Reed Educational Center.
• Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, $22,000, for the “100 Youth Voices Musical Theatre Program,” an after-school youth performing arts program.
• Youth Crisis Center $25,000, for the Touchstone Village transitional independent living program’s resource team.