CPI Grant Award Winners

Children’s Education/Coaching Program, through Inter-Faith Housing Alliance:  For families in a local homeless shelter, strengthening the parenting skills and each child’s social and emotional skills are the focus of newly established educational sessions.  A Parent Group and two Children’s Groups will provide 20 monthly sessions for up to 40 youth and 20 parents.  Supporting tools include Parent Coaching Cards, parent instructional manuals and coloring books.  The program will also train male mentors to work with boys and lead seminars, create coaching videos on specific topics that future families can view, and establish a nutritional counseling component. (Ambler, PA)

Mentoring Initiative for Neighborhood Developing Youth, by Neighborhood First:  The program focuses on giving local youth an alternative to guns, violence and gangs by establishing Teen Leadership Groups and offering after school education and recreation programs. At least 80 youth will be recruited to actively participate in the programs. Tutoring, remedial education and recreation programs will be offered after school at least two nights per week.  Sports and game leagues will be established. Partnerships will be formed with local schools to allow use of schools after hours for meetings and programs and to identify prospective participants. (Bristol, PA)

Big Brothers/Big Sisters Association of Cincinnati, in partnership with Reading Schools: For the next two years, BBBSA will offer a mentoring program that helps children succeed socially and academically.  Selected fifth and sixth graders attending Central and Hilltop Elementary Schools will be given dedicated high school students who will serve as role models to guide them in becoming contributing citizens. (Cincinnati, OH)

Malcolm Martin Park Beautification Project in collaboration with the Beardsley Community Farm:  Furthering the mission to engage and support the local community through gardening and nutrition education, the partnership will recruit 500 volunteers to construct a dozen raised bed vegetable gardens, a Butterfly Garden, a demonstration Granny Smith Apple Orchard and several native wildflower beds.  Fence installation will also improve food security.  The equipment and materials to complete the project were also included in the funding provided.  (Knoxville, TN)

House of Dreams Arts Enrichment Center, from River City Drum Corp Cultural Arts Institute, Inc.:  A new children’s education program will include computer-based literacy, math, science, career exploration and a multi-media program produced and edited by the students.  Families with children who reside in the West Louisville communities of Park DuValle, California, Shawnee, Parkhill, and Cane Run Corridor will benefit from these programs. The Center will be the place that provides opportunities for personal growth and development through arts and educational enrichment. (Louisville, KY)

“Voices from the Past,” from Iron Hill Museum:  An expanded African American history education program will be provided to 4,200 students in 168 classes over two years in Christina and Appoquinimink School Districts, DE.  Students will act as historians to uncover the story of segregated one-room schoolhouses in their home state.  Also, Delaware Teacher Center workshops will be offered twice a year to introduce the program to teachers. Each classroom receives materials such as a video, oral history summaries, and a historical document collection that the teacher can keep permanently. Evaluation results will substantiate continuation of the program as part of each District’s social studies curriculum.  (Newark, DE)

Adventures in Great Music, from Musicopia: Increases in musical opportunities for students in Bridesburg Elementary and Pope John Paul II schools will occur through a comprehensive and hands-on series of programs including residencies, assemblies, workshops and a community concert that brings students from both schools together with Musicopia’s musicians. The residencies provide intensive instruction around sound and instruments for 75 students in grades 1-5.  The assemblies reach over 800 students and feature the Barnett Quartet as well as the students who participated in the residency program.  (Philadelphia, PA)