JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Twelve area non-profit organizations are getting some financial help, thanks to the Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation.
The foundation is handing out $334,000 in grants to groups that help children and families in northeast Florida.
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This is the foundation's second and final grant cycle of 2009. The foundation's total grants for the year top $1 million.
The following grants were given out:
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida: $50,000 for youth programs at the NFL-YET (Youth Education Town) Boys & Girls Club in Brentwood.
- Dignity U Wear Foundation, Inc.: $10,000 to help with the repair of roof leaks at the main warehouse of Dignity U Wear, used to store and distribute brand new clothing to children and adults in need.
- HOPE Worldwide: $5,000 for Saturday academy and mentor program at Hilltop Apartments.
- Limelight Theatre, Inc.: $25,000 for children?s theatre program serving children from low-income families in St. Johns County.
- Metro Kids Konnection: $22,000 for after-school and summer program at the Cleveland Arms Apartments and surrounding neighborhood.
- National Council of Negro Women's Child Watch Partnership of Jacksonville: $25,000 for community-based after-school tutoring and summer enrichment program for girls at the Reed Educational Campus.
- Police Athletic League, Jacksonville: $50,000 for after-school education and recreation program at Mallison Park, west of downtown Jacksonville.
- Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, Inc.: $22,000 for community outreach after-school program designed to bring music and theatre education to youth.
- St. Augustine Youth Services: $50,000 for capital campaign for a new therapeutic group home campus.
- St. Gerard Campus: $25,000 for nursery and daycare for pregnant teens and teen parents attending St. Gerard?s high school.
- War on Poverty Florida: $20,000 for childhood obesity prevention project targeted for youth in Northwest Jacksonville, funded through a partnership with Baptist Health/Wolfson Children?s Hospital ($10,000 from the Jaguars Foundation and $10,000 from Baptist Health).
- Youth Crisis Center: $30,000 to support for the youth resource team at Touchstone Village to help older youth transition to independent living.
Since 1995, the foundation has given more than $12.9 million for programs benefitting youth in northeast Florida.