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10 <br /> Girl Scouts, Pines of Carolina Council $4,000.00 <br /> Through Operation Resolve and Solve, girl scout troops in Halifax Court, Heritage Park, Few Gardens, and <br /> the Hargraves Center will assess violence in their own communities and design and implement service <br /> projects to address this violence and heighten community awareness. <br /> Habitat for Humanity of Durham County/Orange County $8,000.00 <br /> The Durham and Orange Chapters of Habitat for Humanity have collaborated together to hire a joint director <br /> of development who will help to raise money for both organizations, capitalizing on the close ties between <br /> these two counties. <br /> NC Wheelchair Athletes Foundation $3,400.00 <br /> This grant will provide specialized sports-training equipment; information on up-to-date training methods for <br /> qualified sports trainers and coaches; and special seminars for training assistants to enable an increased <br /> number of wheelchair athletes to fully participate in statewide athletic events. <br /> Orange Correctional Center Community Resource Council- $6,000.00 <br /> Family visitation at this minimum security prison in Hillsborough encourages the continuation of family ties <br /> during incarceration. Inmates will help build and landscape a play space that will allow these fathers to play <br /> with their young children, giving these families some quality time together during their brief visits. <br /> Orange-Durham Coalition for Battered Women $5,000.00 <br /> In the last three years, the Coalition's 24-hour crisis line has received nearly triple the number of calls, half of <br /> which are from Orange County. To meet this increased demand, the Coalition will collaborate with the <br /> Women's Center to offer counseling and case management services out of their office in Orange County. <br /> Home Community Development Corporation $10,000.00 <br /> Passage Home works with families who are homeless or very low-income and ex-offender mothers and their <br /> children. This project will support a children's enrichment program so their parents can focus on family self- <br /> sufficiency. <br /> Raleigh Rescue Mission $6,900.00 <br /> The Mission's Learning Center and Computer Lab currently provides 144 homeless and low-income <br /> individuals access to employment training opportunities and computer literacy, and their numbers are <br /> growing. This grant will help support a part-time teacher at this facility. <br /> St.Philip's Episcopal Church $7,000.00 <br /> This grant will help this cooperative short term child care and parent education center for homeless parents <br /> who don't have the ability to commit to long-term childcare programs and need quality, short-term care. <br /> Town of Holly Springs $10,000.00 <br /> This grant will support an after school and summer camp program that will offer tutoring and provide <br /> structured activities designed to boost self-esteem, provide leadership skills, teach conflict resolution <br /> strategies, and help young people deal with peer pressure. <br /> Triangle Open Space Network/Triangle Land Conservancy $7,500.00 <br /> This grant will help establish a network to encourage collaboration among people working for public <br /> environmental parks in the area; increase cooperation on open-space issues among governments, landowners <br /> and non-profits; and eventually result in an open-space plan for the entire Triangle region. <br /> Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers $4,071.03 <br /> Residents of this residential self-help program serving drug addicts and alcoholics will learn photography and <br /> creative writing skills as tools for communication and self-discovery. The program, which TROSA residents <br /> helped design, stresses vocational training, education, and communication skills. <br /> Wake Co. Literacy Council $5,000.00 <br /> One third of the inmates at the NC Correctional Institution for Women are functionally illiterate, a fact that <br /> dims their prospects of maintaining a job and staying out of trouble once they leave prison. This project will <br /> train tutors specifically recruited to work with motivated student inmates, who will learn reading and writing <br /> skills from their tutor and participate in a Reading Incentive Program. <br /> Page 5 of 5 <br />