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12, Area 3
Charter No. 42-1927
During the Fiscal Year 2003/2004 Zonta Club of Denver awarded several grants to community organizations.
Grant Recipients
- Denver
Kids — A not-for-profit organization, founded in
1993, which provides long- term preventive counseling to boys and girls who are
students in the Denver Public Schools (grades K-12), and are identified by school
personnel as being at risk and needing support and guidance beyond that which
is provided in school.
- Each youngster
is guided by a Denver Kids, Inc. counselor, on a one-to-one basis to address a
variety of needs.
Denver Kids, Inc. is a Denver Public Schools program sponsored, as well, by the Rotary Club of Denver, Rotary Associates, Zonta Club of Denver, and Denver Active 20/30. The latter four organizations provide funding for program support services and provide Denver Kids, Inc. with representation from the community. - The Salvation Army Red Shield
During the Fiscal Year 2002/2003 Zonta Club of Denver awarded several grants to community organizations.
- Geneva Glen — "The mission of Geneva Glen Camp is to provide a place where young people can discover wonders in themselves, others and all of God's world." Scholarships provided.
- Northeast Community Center — Helps women prepare to enter the job market.
- Joy House — Provides apartments & services for battered women & their children
- Cherubim
Foundation Project Hope — Healing services for
women with cancer.
- Friends
in Transition — Tutoring and mentoring for 5th
through 12th grade.
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Whiz Kids — Tutoring and mentoring for 1st through 4th grade.
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Denver Kids — A not-for-profit organization, founded in 1993, which provides long- term preventive counseling to boys and girls who are students in the Denver Public Schools (grades K-12), and are identified by school personnel as being at risk and needing support and guidance beyond that which is provided in school.
Each youngster is guided by a Denver Kids, Inc. counselor, on a one-to-one basis to address a variety of needs.
Denver Kids, Inc. is a Denver Public Schools program sponsored, as well, by the Rotary Club of Denver, Rotary Associates, Zonta Club of Denver, and Denver Active 20/30. The latter four organizations provide funding for program support services and provide Denver Kids, Inc. with representation from the community.
- Hope Communities
— Tutoring primary grades by middle school students.
- Family Homestead — Apartments and services for homeless families.
- Rape Assistance Awareness Program — Rape prevention classes.
- Marycrest Sewing Circle — Teaches sewing and business skills.
- Share Our Strength/Operation Frontline — Classes in cooking, nutrition, and budgeting for low-income families.
During the Fiscal Year 2001/2002 Zonta Club of Denver awarded several grants to community organizations.
- Geneva
Glen — "The mission of Geneva Glen Camp is to provide
a place where young people can discover wonders in themselves, others and all
of God's world."
- Issachar
- The
Salvation Army — Phonics Intervention Program at
the Denver Red Shield Community Center in the Five Points area of Denver.
- Family
HomeStead
- Rocky Mountain Parents as
Teachers
- Samaritan Counseling House
- Denver
Kids — A not-for-profit organization, founded in
1993, which provides long- term preventive counseling to boys and girls who are
students in the Denver Public Schools (grades K-12), and are identified by school
personnel as being at risk and needing support and guidance beyond that which
is provided in school.
Each youngster is guided by a Denver Kids, Inc. counselor, on a one-to-one basis to address a variety of needs.
Denver Kids, Inc. is a Denver Public Schools program sponsored, as well, by the Rotary Club of Denver, Rotary Associates, Zonta Club of Denver, and Denver Active 20/30. The latter four organizations provide funding for program support services and provide Denver Kids, Inc. with representation from the community.
- Young
Americans Bank Foundation — Young Americans Education
Foundation is proud to present Young AmeriTowne. Young AmeriTowne is a unique,
hands-on lesson in free enterprise that introduces young people to the basic principles
of our economic system by allowing them to run their own town.
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