Woods Charitable Fund awards grants

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By the Lincoln Journal Star

Woods Charitable Fund Inc., a private grant-making foundation, announced grants to 12 groups totaling $211,500.

“In light of recent incidences of families leaving teenage children at Nebraska hospitals under the state’s Safe Haven Law, second-year support for Families Inspiring Families may have special significance,” said Pam Baker, the fund’s executive director, in a press release.

“Families Inspiring Families is a group that provides peer support and advocacy for families whose children have emotional, behavioral and/or mental health issues. FIF can be a resource to help families in need before they reach that point of desperation resulting in abandoning a child.”

Other Woods grants that will contribute to the well being of families and children in Lincoln include awards to Family Service, the Northeast Family Resource Center, Lincoln Medical Education Partnership and the Indian Center.

Woods Charitable Fund, Inc. makes grants three times a year to tax-exempt organizations seeking funding for programs in the areas of human services, civic and community, education, and arts and culture, as well as programs and initiatives designed to assist new Americans in Lincoln.

Groups approved for funding:

Asian Community and Cultural Center ($20,000): Third-year support of staff time toward sustaining the Asian Elderly New Americans Enrichment Project, a long-standing program of the center that makes human services, behavioral health counseling and social interactions more accessible to Asian seniors.

Center for Rural Affairs ($20,000): For analysis of and advocacy for Nebraska’s microenterprise development, which aims to help alleviate poverty in struggling urban and rural communities by enabling low and moderate income people to acquire assets and create wealth.

Families Inspiring Families, Inc. ($20,000): Second-year support for the Prevention Advocacy Program, a peer-to-peer support program for families whose children are at risk of becoming state wards due to their emotional, behavioral and/or mental health issues.

Family Service Association of Lincoln ($30,000): Second-year support for expansion of Therapy and Family Support services, a behavioral health program provided free-of-charge and on-site at elementary and middle schools to assist kids and families in dealing with life stressors impacting their behaviors and relationships at school or home, in partnership with Lincoln Public Schools.

Good Neighbor Community Center, Inc. ($30,000): Two-year renewal support of the Executive Assistant position for this organization that provides clothing and basic needs to low-income people.

Indian Center Inc. ($20,000): Toward a Youth Coordinator position to help administer the center’s services for at-risk Native American youth, including academic guidance and educational and employment opportunities.

Lincoln Medical Education Partnership ($5,000): Second-year support for the evaluation of the School Community Intervention Program (SCIP) an in-school program to help elementary, middle and high school students with drug and alcohol abuse.

Lux Center for the Arts ($15,000): To develop and implement a new mobile art outreach program to serve low-income children and senior citizens.

Matt Talbot Kitchen ($30,000): Toward a Development Specialist position to enhance capacity building and fund development for this agency dedicated to providing food and services to Lincoln’s homeless and working poor.

Northeast Family Resource Center ($10,000): For the Parents as Partners project, a merging of the center’s two existing early childhood education programs, to provide parents with training in skill building and child development.

Union College ($6,500): Toward the planning and development of a program to help transition Lincoln students with disabilities into high school, college and adult life, in collaboration with the Nebraska Department of Education, Lincoln Public Schools and Nebraska Advocacy Services.

UNL-African American and African Studies Program ($5,000): Second-year support for the biannual Black Film Festival at the Mary Riepma Ross Theatre with the theme, Real to Reel: Documenting Empowerment Equality Inclusion, to expose the broader university and the Lincoln-Omaha communities to Africans and African Americans in world cinematic genres.

For more information on funding guidelines, call 436-5971, visit the Fund’s Web site at www.woodscharitable.org, or write to either Pam Baker, Tom Woods or Angie Zmarzly at P.O. Box 81309, Lincoln, NE 68501.