SERVICE LEAGUE AWARDS GRANTS

Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI) - March 14, 2008 Author: Green Bay Press-Gazette, Dian Page

Community Gifts Grants, valued at $35,000, have been awarded by Service League of Green Bay to agencies addressing critical care and enrichment needs of area children.

Jessica Madden served as chair of the grant committee that awarded $3,750 to the Sexual Assault Center of Family Services to help provide a sexual abuse prevention program for preschool aged children; $3,700 to Cerebral Palsy, Inc., to purchase a recumbent bike for physical therapy and therapeutic listening discs and headphones for occupational therapy; and $3,500 to the N.E.W. Community Clinic to provide prescription medication for uninsured children from infants to age 17.

Grants also went to the Center for Childhood Safety, $2,950 to buy safety equipment for Safety Town Camp; Brown County Human Services Pals Program, $2,615 to provide bus transportation for 150 children on its annual field trip; America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin, $2,465 for hot meals three nights per week for low-income children at five Green Bay schools; and the Salvation Army Shoe and Boot Program, $2,000 to provide new shoes and boots for 250 children each year.

Other recipients are the Volunteer Center of Brown County, $1,800; ASPIRO, Inc., $1,680; Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin, $1,640; Brown County Child Protection Intake, $1,500; Howe Neighborhood Family Resource Center, $1,500; Children's Promise, $1,500; Special Olympics Wisconsin-Northeast Area, $1,200; Coming Home Project of Family Services, $1,200; Camp P.O.P. $1,000; and Syble Hopp School, $1,000.

The Service League's Back-to-School Store, the annual August event that helps needy children get ready for school, and Encompass Early Education & Care also are major recipients of monies raised by the League.