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Road of Life Awarded $40,000 Compassion Capital Fund Grant |
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COLUMBUS, OHIO -
January 15, 2007 - Road of Life has received a Compassion Capital Fund capacity
building sub-award through the Ohio Compassion Capital Project (OCCP), a
state-wide initiative that assists Ohio's grass-roots, faith and community-based
organizations in building their organizational strength, capacity and viability.
The grant award will be in the amount of $40,000.
The award will
facilitate an important partnership between Road of Life and the Olde South Side
Community Partnership (OSSCP). Specifically, this funding will allow the two
groups to develop a new program that will combine Road of Life's cancer
prevention curriculum with OSSCP's after-school and summer academic enrichment
programs. This new curriculum and program design will be available to faith and
community-based organizations serving at-risk youth throughout the state of
Ohio.
In addition, the award will sustain the development of a
comprehensive fund development strategy for the collaborative, including grant
templates and coaching. The partnership will also emphasize sustainable growth,
with a goal of cultivating partnerships with faith and community-based
organizations across the state.
This partnership allows Road of Life’s
programs to reach more at-risk youth across Ohio. It helps the organization to
further its mission to raise a healthier generation of children with a
significantly reduced risk of cancer and other diseases of excess. “This is a
wonderful opportunity for us to dramatically increase the capacity of our
after-school programming collaborative. We are very grateful to the State of
Ohio for believing in and funding our vision,” says Shane Hankins, Executive
Director.
For more information about Road of Life’s programs, refer to
our website: www.roadoflife.org or contact Robyn Hauser:
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, (614)
221-1235.
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