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Thank you letters for the week of Dec. 25 | Juneau Empire
Thanks for serving to JCF meet neighborhood wants
For a few years, the Juneau Neighborhood Basis has supported the Common Elementary College Breakfast program and the Weekend Scholar Meals program. Our help for Meals for Youngsters expanded this 12 months when organizations, church buildings, the college district, and companies that assist feed youngsters in want recognized main gaps in meals help for college kids. In response to this want, the Juneau Neighborhood Basis obtained an exquisite, $100,000 problem grant from the Benito and Frances C. Gaguine Basis to assist feed the youngsters in our neighborhood all year long.
First up was offering further meals for 480 college students through the winter trip. On Dec. seventeenth, the inspiration in partnership with the United Manner of Southeast Alaska, U.S. Coast Guard District 17 and Sector Juneau, representatives from the Juneau College District and the Juneau-Douglas Excessive College: Yadaa.at Kalé Cheer, Basketball, Baseball and Soccer groups gathered at Superbear IGA to organize and distribute 960 trip meals luggage making certain youngsters and households have meals over the winter break.
Juneau sport workforce members fill luggage with meals at IGA Superbear as a part of the three Squareds Challenge on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. ( Michael Penn / For Juneau Neighborhood Basis)
Our because of this unimaginable neighborhood for donating to assist Feed Juneau Youngsters. Due to you, we made the match!!!! To the great employees of Superbear IGA who helped coordinate the acquisition of the meals, allowed us to make use of the warehouse, and assisted each step of the way in which! To our companions the United Manner of Southeast Alaska for logistics, organizing, and comply with by means of. To Grasp Chief Lucas and Grasp Chief Waldron and the volunteers from the U.S. Coast Guard District 17 and Sector Juneau – our honest appreciation to your exhausting work and supply of over 480 luggage to households and colleges in our neighborhood.
To Juneau College District, Adrianne Schwartz, Melissa Dale, and Bridget Weiss, academics and college counselors who labored tirelessly to ensure college students and households would have meals over the break. And an enormous shout out of because of Juneau-Douglas Excessive College: Yadaa.at Kalé cheer, basketball, baseball and soccer gamers to your enthusiasm and assist in making ready the luggage! And, to the Juneau Neighborhood Basis Board to your time and help with these efforts.
We’re so grateful for all of the help as the inspiration continues its work to reply to the wants of our neighborhood to create a wholesome, secure, and culturally wealthy surroundings.
Wishing everybody a contented and wholesome vacation season.
Amy Skilbred,
Juneau Neighborhood Basis govt director
Discovery Southeast thanks 100+ Girls Who Care
Discovery Southeast extends our deepest because of 100+ Girls Who Care Juneau for choosing us as their charity of selection this quarter. We’re amazed at how deeply this group of ladies cares concerning the neighborhood of Juneau, and we’re honored to have been chosen.Their donation is important and influences 1000’s of Juneau youngsters’s experiences as they discover and play within the pure world, creating experiences and relationships that may stick with them life lengthy.
From left to proper: Michelle Kaelke, 100 Girls Who Care, Maggie Garrison, Discovery Southeast, Sarah Moore, Discovery Southeast Board Vice President, Timi Tullis, 100 Girls Who Care, Mary Hakala, Discovery Southeast Board President, Iola Younger, 100 Girls Who Care, Bess Crandall, Discovery Southeast. (Courtesy Photograph / Shawn Eisele)
For nearly 35 years Discovery Southeast’s hands-on nature schooling has deepened Southeast Alaska youngsters’s reference to nature. We attain primarily each elementary faculty scholar, each season, by means of classroom applications. We additionally provide after-school applications at Juneau’s Title I colleges and Gruening Park, together with summer time camps and day applications throughout faculty holidays. As we contemplate the scope of the pandemic’s impression on youngsters, we see that now greater than ever nature schooling may be profound and informative. We see college students working collectively to unravel issues, participating in artistic play, and growing self-confidence within the pure area surrounding their dwelling.
This unimaginable present of $32,600 will assist Discovery Southeast strengthen our core elementary school-based nature programming and make particular efforts to succeed in underserved households. Specifically, this cash offers a chance to increase our camp nomination course of in coordination with faculty employees to make sure that extra households can entry our summer time choices. From Discovery Southeast’s Board President Mary Hakala, “No little one ought to miss out on our applications as a result of they don’t have the monetary means. Awards like this make all of it doable.”
100+ Girls Who Care is a rising group of now over 300 girls who meet 4 occasions a 12 months to appoint and vote on a Juneau-based non-profit, to which every member then contributes $100. The ensuing mixed donation makes a huge effect on native nonprofits and their efforts to make the Juneau neighborhood an awesome place to reside. You could find extra data on this inspiring group at their web site: https://www.100wwcjnu.org/ Thanks 100+ Girls Who Care!
Maggie Garrison for Discovery Southeast