2000 Grants

 

Focus Area: Children and Youth

Total Funds Awarded: $38,000

Matching Donor: Mary Gay and Don Brady

Communication Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

$9,000

Establishment of FRIENDS group to help reduce feelings of isolation and stress as children as transfer from schools for the deaf to mainstream programs

Communities in Schools of Greensboro

$8,000

For the Great Leaps Reading Program for 300 3-5th graders

Green Hill Center for NC Art

$5,000

ArtQuest scholarships

Greensboro Branch NAACP

$5,000

"Read to Succeed" program targeting 15 students in grades 3, 4, and 5

Guilford County Coalition on Infant Mortality

$1,000

Baby Basics Closet

Kopper Top Therapeutic Riding Center

$5,000

Scholarship fund to provide therapeutic horseback riding

Prevent Blindness of North Carolina

$5,000

Photo-refractive vision screenings to all preschool children, ages 2-5