| Jaws Youth Fund Grants The Jaws Youth Fund is a partnership between the Jaworski family and United Way of Camden County. It is designed to provide a results-oriented, outcome based platform for serving at-risk youth throughout Camden County and the Delaware Valley region. We Thank all golfers for their generousity to help us raise money for the following Youth Groups! (For more information on qualifing for a grant please go to the bottom of this page) The 2007 Jaws Youth Fund Grants have been awarded to: Coriell Institute for Medical Research - Summer Internship Program Respond, Inc - School Age Summer Camp Enrichment Program Moorestown Visiting Nurses & Hospice - Camp Firefly Institute for the Development of Education in the Arts - CITY KIDS Multi Media Production Project Hispanic Family Center- Play-ful Summer Camp Program Woodlands Community Development Corporation - The Anna B Clark Summer Day Camp
The 2006 Summer Scholarship have been awarded to the following Camps: Boys & Girls Club of Camden County - Youth who could not otherwise afford camp. Betty & Milton Katz Jewish Community Center - Teen Leadership Initiative Respond, Inc- Business & Trade: An Entrepreneurial Connective Network Summer Camp The Camden STARR Program - STARR Program Mural Arts Summer Camp Woodlands Community Development Corporation - The Anna B Clark Summer Day Camp
The 2006 Jaws Youth Fund Grants have been Awarded to:
Hispanic Family Center of South Jersey-to provide successful after school programs including hiring a new youth coordinator, hiring a driver to take students to SAT prep classes, assist in planning college visits. Camden Eye Center-to provide free and low cost vision care to needy & low income kids from Camden Boys & Girls Club - Job Ready! - Curriculum taliored to prepare Camden youth for the current job market Center for Family Services - SERV - Services Empowering the Rights of Victims Steininger Behavioral Care Service - Children Mobile Response & Stabilization Service - Provides a quick response when a parent or care-giver is concerned about a child"s behavior, academic performance or emotional well-being Planned Parenthood of Southern NJ - Teens on track (TNT) - TNT uses a 3 pronged approach that consists of recreational activities, sexuality education and health services for young men Urban Promise - Street Leaders Program - Hires students each year to work ar tutors, coaches, mentors,with summer day camps and after school programs Genesis Counseling Center - Comprehensive Adjustment Program (C.A.P.) - Provides a one-stop transition program for parolees/probationers who would have otherwise been reincarcerated Eastern Camden County Regional Mentor Program-working with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Camden & Gloucester Counties.
Past Grants have been awarded to: Boy Scouts of America Variety Club YMCA Special Olympics of PA Urban Hope Katz JCC Urban Promise Hopeworks ‘N Camden SODAT One Accord, Inc. Little Rock Foundation Former Grant Recipients Ronald McDonald House of Southern NJ The Work Group Steininger Behavioral Care Services Camden County Council On Economic Opportunity, Inc Bernice Miller Day Care Center NJ Academy for Aquatic Sciences CAUSE (Camden Aquarium Urban Science Enrichment) The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Trinity Hospice
To Qualify for a Grant: All RFP’s will be linked to United Way of Camden County’s community impact agenda. Successful grant proposals demonstrate program excellence in line with achieving United Way’s community impact initiative for at-risk youth: Camden County at-risk youth, aged 7 though 18, are academically successful, substance free, law abiding and avoiding early parenthood United Way of Camden County will publicize and announce the RFP process via direct mail, as well as the United Way of Camden County (www.uwccnj.org) and Jaws Youth Fund (www.jawsyouthfund.com) websites. Grant funding from the Jaws Youth Fund will be open to organizations that meet the following minimum criteria: - 501(c)3 non-profit organization
- Provide services to youth from Camden County
- Provide services to youth ages 7-18.
- Governed by an active, volunteer board of directors
- Demonstrate clear program goals and planned outcomes
- Demonstrated capacity to deliver planned outcomes
- Demonstrated prior achievements and/or current expertise in the areas for which funding is being requested
- Demonstrated sound fiscal management
All grant requests are to be submitted to Jaws Youth Fund United Way of Camden County 196 Newton Avenue, Camden NJ 08103 Should you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Katie Hahn, Manager, Community Initiatives at (856) 963-2720, ext. 48 or kathleen_hahn@uwccnj.org. |