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2007 Community Impact Grants
United Way of Southeast Alaska (UWSEAK) has awarded $39,558 in
Community Impact Grants to fund projects submitted by fourteen
partner agencies.
United Way Community Impact Grant recipients and their projects
include:
- Association for the Education of Young Children -
$2,485: Early Literacy On Board for School Success. Help to
supply books and reading events to parents and children in
Juneau.
- Alaskan AIDS Assistance Assoc - $3,000: HIV Rapid
Test kits purchased that only take 20 minutes for results.
Testing will be made accessible for high risk populations.
- American Red Cross - $3,000: Train instructors in
the following communities Ketchikan, Sitka, Petersburg,
Wrangell, Haines and Craig.
- AWARE - $3,000: Purchase education materials for
use during the support groups and educations classes for teens.
A part of their larger Catch this T.R.A.I.N. project (Teens
Resisting Abuse and Initiating Nonviolence)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Ketchikan- $3,000: Provide
monthly activities for match support in Ketchikan to help offer
positive opportunities locally in order to encourage matches for
longer than one year.
- Boys and Girls Club Juneau - $3,000: To expand the
repertoire of art programming available to its members and
provide a national program called MusIQ Club. Both programs will
be offered one time per week year round, with extra time for
participants to work on projects during the week. Funds will buy
software and piano equipment, along with purchasing art
supplies.
- Catholic Community Service - $3,500: Applied to their
UW loan for the Puddlejumpers Day Care. Established to provide
day care for Yaakoosge students, as well as the general public.
- Gastineau Human Services - $3,000: Funds to hire
speaker/instructor to provide clinical training for family
treatment services. Training will be made available to other
behavioral healthcare providers in the community to enhance
treatment among all local providers.
- PatchWorks - $2,600: Provide funds to provide two
events for T.A.L.K. (Teens and Adults Linking in Ketchikan).
Will provide venue for intergenerational discussions on topics
such as drug and alcohol use among teens, lack of parental
involvement and issues influencing teens to stay in school or
drop out.
- Rendezvous Senior Day Services - $1,000: Provide
special window treatments that will help to control the amount
of light entering the room - which studies indicate that persons
with Alzheimer's and related dementia have increased and
prolonged energy and stimulation when the environment is
controlled.
- Southeast Alaska Guidance Association (SAGA) -
$3,000: Contribute to start-up costs (equipment) for one
additional Serve Alaska Youth Corps crew for Southeast Alaska.
- Southeast Alaska Independent Living (SAIL) - $2,973:
Provide several items for their southeast Alaska offices -
Signage for all three offices; Consumer confidentiality wall in
Ketchikan; and a ramp to the office wheelchair accessibility
improvements to the bathroom in Sitka.
- Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC) - $3,000:
Provide matching funding for a technology upgrade to the Juneau
Adult Education center with a server and software to provide
access to essential web-based instructional sites.
- Sitka Counseling and Prevention Services - $3,000:
Training for Occupancy Specialist to attend training to learn
the intricacies involved in the HUD's requirements to allow
placement of individuals in their newly constructed units that
will house those with very low income, physical and
developmental disabilities or chronic mental illness.
To view the 2005 Community Impact Grant awards, click
here.
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