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2009 Grant Recipients:
The 1st and 10 Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the Foundation's grant program for 2009.
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Queen For A Day
Everyone deserves to be a Queen or Hero for a day - and that is just what Queen For a Day is all about. The organization provides quality of life support to pediatric cancer patients. Queen For A Day has been given a grant to provide two Tea Parties and/or Heroes programs in each of the 1st and 10 Foundation’s geographical areas.
When one of the young patients arrives at the Tea Party, she is given a manicure and then taken to the make-up tables. Each child is given jewelry, feather boas and tiaras to dress up, and then taken on a parade through the hospital. The event continues with refreshments, music and arts and crafts.
As part of the Heroes program, local firefighters and police officers visit the patients in the hospital, sometimes bringing a fire truck or K-9 unit for the kids. Similar to Tea Parties, the boys receive hero-themed gifts including hats, badges and tattoos. The event also includes refreshments and entertainment.
Foundation Helps Mon County Habitat For Humanity With WV Football Build
The 1st and 10 Foundation has provided a grant to the Mon County Habitat for Humanity for a special project called “WV Football Build”.
For WV Football Build, MCHFH sought funds and support from football heroes throughout the state of West Virginia, including college and high school football teams. This particular project will help two families move into simple, affordable and decent homes that they can build, buy and live in.
As is the case with most Habitat for Humanity homes, each family member over the age of 18 must complete 250 hours of “sweat equity” helping to complete the construction of their home or other family homes.
Friends Helping Friends In The Eastern Panhandle
Friends in Action of the Eastern Panhandle (FIAEP) is a family mentoring program that uses the power of friendship to bring about positive and permanent change in the lives of lower-income families of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.With a grant from the 1st and 10 Foundation, FIAEP will continue to work with the community using two of its programs – Volunteer Mentoring and Life Skills Training.
The Volunteer Mentoring program involves a trained volunteer partnering with a low-income family in an effort to provide the family with support through friendship, mentoring and hope. Each volunteer assists with budgeting and organization, tutoring, modeling and teaching parenting skills, finding affordable housing and family education.
Kanawha-Charleston Soccer Foundation Gets A Kick Out of New Fields
With a grant from the 1st and 10 Foundation, the Kanawha-Charleston Soccer Foundation is closer to finishing the final two fields that make up the six-field complex known as the Friends of Coal-Fields at Trace Fork.
The Kanawha-Charleston Soccer Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization developed to address the lack of soccer facilities in the Kanawha Valley. Four of the six fields have been constructed and the remaining two fields are in process.
While serving the community, the fields will likely have a positive economic impact as well. By 2014, it is the hope that the fields could serve as host to two regional soccer tournaments per year, resulting in $1.6 million in revenue to the state annually.
Sports Buddies for Big Brothers Big Sisters
Sports Buddies is a new project launched by Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee. The 1st and 10 Foundation has provided a grant to help support this sports-based mentoring initiative that pairs disadvantaged children and adult mentors with a shared interest in sports.
As part of the program, participants are provided weekly opportunities to play and watch sports together. In partnership with the University of Tennessee Athletics, Ice Bears Hockey and Tennessee Smokies Baseball, each participant is given free tickets to local sporting events. For many of these children, it will be their first visit to these ball fields and arenas.
Children in the program also participate in flag football, volleyball, soccer and disc golf games with their mentors. They have also had the opportunity to go behind-the-scenes at sporting events and meet coaches, athletes and trainers and hear about the importance of fitness, health and doing well in school.
Royal Treatment for Cabell County Youth
Children from Cabell County Protective Services will be getting the royal treatment with a grant from the 1st and 10 Foundation. These children will attend the Royal Family Kids Camp – a camp specially designed to meet the needs of abused, abandoned and neglected children.
During the weeklong camp, children will get social interaction in a safe and comfortable environment. There will be a birthday party for the entire group during the week, complete with cake, balloons, games and gifts for all. Each child will leave with a photo album of the week’s events, which for most of these children will be the first mementos of their childhood.
Cabell County’s Royal Family Kids Camp will go a long way to help these children in need. Positive outcomes have already been seen in the over 160 camps that have taken place nationwide.
New Van For Community Health of East Tennessee
The Community Health of East Tennessee will be purchasing a new 15-passenger van with a grant from the 1st and 10 Foundation to help the organization’s Family Services Center Outreach project. A new vehicle will allow the project to better serve the nearly 600 victims of violence that it assists each year.
More than half of the individuals served by the program are children. In many cases, these children have had to leave their homes abruptly. With a new vehicle, these children can receive the counseling, and group support that they need to build a new life.
With the addition of this van, families will also be able to participate in wholesome activities, games and inexpensive projects to build stronger bonds between mothers and children.
Red Cross Mid-Ohio Valley Chapter Holds Red Cross Ready Camps
The Community Health of East Tennessee will be purchasing a new 15-passenger van with a grant from the 1st and 10 Foundation to help the organization’s Family Services Center Outreach project. A new vehicle will allow the project to better serve the nearly 600 victims of violence that it assists each year.
More than half of the individuals served by the program are children. In many cases, these children have had to leave their homes abruptly. With a new vehicle, these children can receive the counseling, and group support that they need to build a new life.
With the addition of this van, families will also be able to participate in wholesome activities, games and inexpensive projects to build stronger bonds between mothers and children.
It’s time to “Play Ball” in Lincoln County
With a grant from the 1st and 10 Foundation, Hamlin Little League is constructing Lincoln County’s only designated regulation Tee Ball/Minor League Baseball field through its 1st and Tee project.In partnership with the Hamlin Lions Club and Lincoln County Family Resource Network, Hamlin Little League will build a new state-of-the-art facility that will primarily serve boys and girls ages 5-13. The facility will be available at all times to children in that age group. Built to national specifications, the new field will be constructed with countless volunteer hours.
Beyond the immediate impact the field will have, the long-term benefits of the field include combating childhood obesity, and other poor health problems.