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AWARE Grant
Organization - AWARE
Grant Amount - $30,000
Foundation - Yakima Valley Community Foundation
Grant Purpose - The funding will help pay for a project coordinator, training, peer mentoring, school assemblies and community meetings for a nationally recognized youth development program to reduce teen involvement in drugs, drinking and other high-risk behaviors.
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Clinicas de Salud Del Pueblo, Inc. - $162,708 from the California Endowment - Plain Talk/Hablando Claro: To reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors by engaging Latino parents and youth in a process to promote positive health behaviors among sexually active youth and to reduce teen pregnancy rates in the city of Brawley in...
Project QUEST, Inc. - $200,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant will provide general purpose support to Project QUEST, Inc. As a nationally recognized sectoral employment program, Project QUEST defines the skills required to succeed in targeted, hard-to-fill occupations, then recruits, trains, and...
IMANI and UNIDAD - $12,000 from the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County - IMANI and UNIDAD will use funds to implement the Teen Peer Education Program which is modeled after a former program of AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist. The program was established by Debra M. Stanley to address the evolving needs, issues and concerns...
Mountain Crisis Services - $65,764 from the California Endowment - Mariposa County Teen Respect: To support a collaborative recruitment and training effort engaging nontraditional teen leaders to identify strategies to systemically address teen bullying within Mariposa County high schools and the countywide...
Mott Community College - $700,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant to Mott Community College will enable staff of Mott Middle College High School to provide a more in-depth response to requests to share its instructional model and innovative curriculum for high school students with school districts...
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