2019 GRANT DISTRIBUTIONS
• Youth and Family Service of North Central OK, Inc-$4,905. Funds will be used for Life Skill Training and Prevention Program for students. Focus area will be every 5th grade student attending Enid Public Schools.
• Railroad Museum of Oklahoma — $2,500. Funds will be used for a caboose conversion project to create a children's library.
• Hope Outreach Ministries —$2,500. Funds will be used for "Earn as You Learn" program. Providing curriculum, car seats, cribs, cradles,and diapers.
• 4RKids— $5,000. Funds will be used for greenhouse equipment for the 2nd Story Employment Center. They plan to grow their own vegetables in an organic garden.
• Leonardo's Children's Museum — $6,500. Funds will be used for the 2nd phase of a security system for the children's museum to provide better coverage and safety.
• Great Expectation Foundation — $5,000. Funds to provide Professional Development for 10 educators at Longfellow Middle School. Focus area will be learning and implementing 17 classroom practices, 8 expectations, 36 life principles.
• Enid Symphony Orchestra— $300. Funds will be used for marketing and educational material distribution for their year-long program through instruction and hands on participation for 1,800 3rd-5th grade students.
• Loaves & Fishes — $3,912. Funds will be used to purchase a new phone system and train their staff.
• CDSA — $2,500. Funds will be used to start an Early Childhood Resource Center Parent Lending Closet and to purchase developmentally appropriate toys and intervention tools to support parents at home strategies.
• Western Plains Youth & Family Services, Inc. — $2,500. Funds will be used for purchasing therapy equipment serving Woodward, Laverne, Guymon and Elk City.
• First United Methodist Church -Hennessey — $5,000. Funds to be used for purchasing and installing picnic tables and benches for their community playground project.
• Forgotten Ministries — $5,000. Funds to be used for kids camp, which is their after school program-3 days a week. Their camp serves 5,000-7,000 Pacific Islanders and provides tutoring for reading, writing, and teaching bible lessons.
• LGE— $5,000 Funds will be used for their Youth Leadership Greater Enid Program. This is a 3 day fast paced, behind the scenes look at Enid.
• Making a Difference — $3,500. Funds to be used for necessary renovations to create a safe and welcoming environment for the youth program.
• Fairview Schools Education Foundation— $4,000. Funds will be used for additional funding to purchase a CNC Plasma Table to help equip their Agricultural Mechanics Laboratory with innovative and cutting edge technology.
• Woodward Arts Theatre Council, Inc. (Woodward, OK) — $2,700. Funds used for emergency repair cost. Items identified are roof leaks from inside gutters, broken tile exposing old wood, and window casing.
• Hedges Regional Speech & Hearing — $3,200. Funds to be used to fund and purchase a handrails to make the entrances more access-friendly to their patients. They will purchase three additional handrails for the west entrance and longer handrail on the sloped sidewalk.