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Press Releases
Youth Foundation Grants Over $4,000
June 23, 2008
Art Cooley, center, Board Chair of the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, congratulates Youth Foundation Fund Advisory Committee officers Harsh Desai, president; and Laura Leigh Cooper, vice-president; on successful fund raising and grant making activities during 2008. The Youth Foundation Fund recently awarded $4,000 in grants to programs benefiting area youth.
YOUTH FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2008 GRANTS
$4,000 awarded for lower shore youth programs
(June 23, 2008)
The Community Foundation of the
Eastern Shore ’s Youth Foundation Fund has awarded $4,000 to help serve the needs of local youth through its 2008 grant program. Grants were recently awarded to the following organizations:
• Maple Shade Youth and Family Services (
Wicomico
County ) was awarded $1,250 to support the construction of a basketball court to provide physical activity, team building and fun for special needs children, ages 8-10, residing in
Maple Shade treatment facilities.
• Agape Project, Inc. (
Worcester
County ) - was awarded $1,000 to support the After-School Agape program to provide a safe place for children of single parents living in the
Bay Street area of
Berlin .
• 4 Steps Therapeutic Riding Program (
Lower Eastern Shore ) – was awarded $750 to provide scholarships for children with disabilities in the Summer 2008 Riding Program.
• The Town of
Princess Anne (
Somerset ) – was awarded $1,000 to support educational supplies and materials for Project Speak, an educational leadership program conducted through a partnership of the Hayward Youth Center/Seton Center.
Each year high school students from the Tri-County region volunteer to serve on the Youth Foundation Advisory Committee. The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore is a charitable foundation serving
Somerset , Wicomico and
Worcester
Counties .
In the fall efforts are devoted to a Koins 4 Kids fund raiser which benefits the Youth Foundation Endowment Fund. Each spring grants are awarded from the endowment to programs benefiting area youth.
