2007/2008 Grant Recipients

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX has a mission to engage the minds, muscles and imaginations of children and the grown-ups who care about them.  Funding from TCF will help to build a permanent facility that will focus on the education, developmental and social needs of young children and their families. 

  

CHRYSALIS leads our community to broad-based solutions to prevent domestic abuse.  TCF is funding the Victim Advocate Program, whose goal is to ensure the safety of domestic violence victims whose abusers are on probation. 

  

COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES provides family law representation in court to domestic violence victims.  The “Safe at Home” project will protect vulnerable members of our community from continued domestic violence, abuse and exploitation by providing civil legal aid to resolve their critical legal problems.

  

GABRIEL’S ANGELS delivers healing pet therapy to abused, neglected and at-risk children, nurturing their ability to love and trust, thereby freeing them from the cycle of violence.

 

 HAVEN HOUSE/YWCA will provide transitional housing and comprehensive services to homeless women and children from all of Maricopa County.  It is a program of the YWCA, whose mission is to improve the quality of community life by promoting racial justice and economic advancement of women.

 

HOPE HOUSE AND MOM’S PLACE/NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES serve the impoverished community of Urban Phoenix, where teen girls are having babies as young as 12 years old and are ill-equipped to handle such a responsibility.  “Mom’s Place” helps young mothers achieve a better life for themselves and their children.  “Hope House” provides a loving, stable living environment for highly at-risk teenage girls while allowing them the opportunity to accomplish goals such as finishing high school, getting a job and learning to work. 

NEW SONG CENTER’s core program, “The Evening Family Support Group Program,” provides a support group program for grieving children and their families and grief education for volunteers, the community and professionals.

 

 PHOENIX CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL’s “Teen Tot Clinic” will serve as a medical home providing comprehensive care to teen parents and their children.  Phoenix Children’s Hospital provides hope, healing and the best health care for children and their families.

  

WELLCARE FOUNDATION provides free integrated healthcare to single working mothers and their children who are not reliant on state assistance and cannot afford insurance or to pay for needed healthcare.

New Leader Recipients

  

CROSSROADS, INC. provides food, shelter and transitional living services in a safe, healthy, clean environment for men and women who suffer from alcoholism and other chemical dependencies and who express a desire and are willing to go to any length to achieve and maintain sobriety.  TCF funds will be used to specifically help women without any means to receive these services until they can get on their feet.

 

HEALTHY SMILE FOUNDATION provides oral health education, toothbrushes and toothpaste to needy children for the prevention of tooth decay and tobacco use.

 

ROSIE’S HOUSE’s “The Piano Program” is an integral part of Rosie’s House, a music academy for children that provides free instruments and music instruction by dedicated professionals to low-income, under-served youth in the Phoenix area.

STUDENTS SUPPORTING BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH plays a principle role in effecting positive changes and promoting awareness of how common brain tumors are as one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among their peers, and act as an outreach to support affected individuals and their families.

VALLEY YOUTH THEATRE’s “Literacy and The Arts” is a program with the goal of creating a love of both reading and the performing arts among inner-city children while expanding their worlds with educational and creative opportunities they otherwise might not experience.

WELLNESS COMMUNITY’s “Family Circle Program” gives children, caregivers and others who have a loved one with cancer the psychosocial support, encouragement, help and information they need to deal with the reality of cancer; and to provide these support services to adults, teens and children who have caner in a community of others who have experienced what they are going through.

 

Total 2007/2008 TCF Grants

 

$635,000