Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Project LINK
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As: Project LINK – Local Impact on Neighborhood Kids
Mailing Address: 1315 W Spruce Street
City: Tampa
State: Fl
Postal Code: 33607
Main Phone: 8132765671
Main Fax: 8132765642
Organization Website: www.project-link.org
Employer ID Number: 59-5976029
Organization Tax Status: 501c3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 03/27/2012
Requested Amount: 8,000

Project Title: Draw My Teacher
Project Description:

Draw My Teacher Project – Project LINK selected four elementary schools that partners with us. The program runs over a course of six-month. The art teachers will challenge their students to compete in a drawing contest to create an illustration of the art teacher. The contest will be held in three phases based on grade level: 1st Phase – third grade, 2nd phase fourth grade, 3rd phase – fifth grade. Students that participate in this school event will be honored with a festival-like activity, while students who are winners will be awarded with custom plaque and their winning picture framed for school display. Winners of the program will also receive a summer scholarship in Project LINK\’s arts & crafts summer camp.

Total Project Budget: 8,000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): inkind from teachers

Project Duration: 6 months
Geographical Area Served: 33607
Age Group To Be Served: 7-11

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs
Contact First Name: Tina
Contact Last Name: Young
Contact Title: executive director
Contact Phone: 8132765671
Contact Email: tyoung@project-link.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Westover School
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As:
Mailing Address: 1237 Whittemore Road, P.O. Box 847
City: Middlebury
State: CT
Postal Code: 06762
Main Phone: 203-758-2423
Main Fax: 203-577-4581
Organization Website: www.westoverschool.org
Employer ID Number: 06 0646961
Organization Tax Status: EO 1927

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 27, 2012
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: Women in Business
Project Description:

The mission of Westover School is to provide an environment that inspires the intellectual, artist, athlete, and philosopher in each student. Westover challenges young women to think independently, to embrace diversity, and to grow intellectually and spiritually. Westover encourages in each student integrity, responsibility, and commitment to community. Westover School is an independent all-girls’ college preparatory school located in Middlebury, Connecticut, currently providing educational opportunities to 205 young women, including both boarding and day students.

Westover School’s Inspiring Women Campaign, the largest fundraising initiative in the history of our school, is now underway. This comprehensive $45 million fundraising initiative insures the continued endowment for student support, faculty salaries, signature programs, campus stewardship, and growth of the annual fund. By securing our signature programs such as W.I.S.E., Manhattan School of Music, Online School for Girls, and others, Westover will lead the way in creating innovative learning opportunities and experiences for the young women we educate. Our newest signature program is our Women in Finance, Business and Entrepreneurship.

During their time at Westover, up to 20 members of the Class of 2014 will participate in our four financial education workshops a year, as well as field trips. In addition, students will be matched one-on-one with mentors who will provide financial guidance and support through monthly contacts. Students will also learn about a variety of career paths in the financial and business world by going on-site to different companies and meeting successful business leaders in a wide range of careers. Each year we will enroll up to 20 sophomore students to participate in this program.

The cost of the program is $45,000. We are asking the Charles and Joan Hermanowski Family Foundation to support this program with a $10,000 grant.

Total Project Budget: 45,000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Committed: $20,000 from an Alumna donor and current operating budget

Project Duration: One year
Geographical Area Served: United States
Age Group To Be Served: High School Age (13-19)

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs. Tami Bettcher Walker
Contact First Name: Tami
Contact Last Name: Walker
Contact Title: Director of Donor Relations
Contact Phone: 203-577-4540
Contact Email: twalker@westoverschool.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Children\’s Resources Fund, Inc.
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As: Children\’s Resources
Mailing Address: 8571 SW 112 Street
City:
State: FL
Postal Code: 33156
Main Phone: 305 596 6966
Main Fax: 305 596 1186
Organization Website: www.crfcenter.org
Employer ID Number: Federal Tax ID: 592712689
Organization Tax Status: 501 (c) (3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 27, 2012
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: Scholarship for a Child with Special Needs
Project Description:

The funds requested from the Charles and Joan Hermanowski Family Foundation, will provide an economically disadvantaged child with developmental delays with a scholarship to attend one of Children\’s Resources\’ programs. In addition to individualized academics, the child will received the therapies necessaries to help him/her develop to the fullest potential.

Total Project Budget: $15,080

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): $5,080 – Children\’s Resources contribution

Project Duration: 40 weeks
Geographical Area Served: Greater Miami area
Age Group To Be Served: 2 – 8 years old

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs.
Contact First Name: Roxana
Contact Last Name: Rapapaport
Contact Title: Executive Director
Contact Phone: 305 596 6966
Contact Email: rrapaport@crfcenter.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County
Legal Name (if Different): Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition, Inc.
Also Known As:
Mailing Address: 551 SE 8th Street, Suite 505, Delray Beach
City:
State: FL
Postal Code: 33483
Main Phone: 561-279-9103
Main Fax: 561-265-3579
Organization Website: www.literacypbc.org
Employer ID Number: 65-0169781
Organization Tax Status: 501 (c) (3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 22, 2012
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: Village Readers Career Awareness
Project Description:

In 2000, the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County established the Village Readers Family Education Program in Delray Beach. The program operates year round, Monday through Thursday, and serves children who attend Village Academy (a public school), their parents and other adults living in the neighborhood who seek to improve their literacy skills. From 5:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the adults are given instruction that focuses on basic life skills within the core curriculum of English, reading and writing. The adults have very limited literacy and English language skills and come to class after working in low-wage jobs such as housekeeping and lawn maintenance. While their parents are in class, the children participate in reading enrichment activities that support learning while not being as formal as the instruction they receive during the day in their regular classroom. There are approximately 100 adults and 40 children in the Village Readers program.
For both the adults and children, career awareness will be given special attention in the academic year that starts in August 2011. The adults will be encouraged to review potential careers and outline the steps that need to be taken to achieve the goal of obtaining a job that pays a family sustaining wage. Our request is for materials that will be used with the children to introduce them to career clusters and help them explore qualifications needed to obtain jobs in these fields. A different career cluster, such as jobs in the healthcare field, will be introduced each month and the children will participate in activities related to those careers. Materials could include books, software, posters and games. The career awareness project will help these children from low-income families envision a future that is brighter by broadening their view of what is possible.

Total Project Budget: $166,444 – FY 13 budget for Village Readers program

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): There are no funding sources for the career awareness project. Each year, the Literacy Coalition works to secure funding for the costs of the basic literacy instruction. In the past, the program has received funding from the Town of Palm Beach United Way and several local foundations.

Project Duration: August 2011 – July 2012
Geographical Area Served: Delray Beach, FL
Age Group To Be Served: 5 – 12

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
Contact First Name: Darlene
Contact Last Name: Kostrub
Contact Title: Chief Executive Officer
Contact Phone: 561-279-9103
Contact Email: 561-265-3579

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Horses and the Handicapped of South Florida, Inc.
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As: H&H
Mailing Address: PO Box 273542
City: Boca Raton
State: FL
Postal Code: 33427-3542
Main Phone: 954-974-2007
Main Fax: 954-974-6119
Organization Website: www.hhsfl.org
Employer ID Number: 59-2211126
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 22, 2012
Requested Amount: 10,000

Project Title: Equine therapy for special needs children
Project Description:

These dollars would be used for scholarships for underprivileged special needs children ranging in age from 4 to 18. The need remains great among the special needs community and providing financial help to families is one of the best things that can be done for them. Without help from the Hermanowski Foundation, many of our special needs students would be left out of our program. Our 110 special needs students range in age from 4 to 75, with 69% of them being under the age of 18.

At the present time 61% of our students are unable to pay for any portion of the program and are on full scholarships. We anticipate a growth of 10% in requests for scholarships next fall. The cost-per-student to attend classes at Horses and the Handicapped is from $2,500 to $4,000 for the fall, winter and spring session. The maximum any of our students are asked to pay is $1,650 a year. No student is refused access to our program because they are unable to pay.

We have 4 staff members, 2 physical therapists, 4 other PATH certified instructors and 325 volunteers who provide 27,900 hours per year helping our special needs students.

Other areas where we need financial assistance are as follows:
*Increase Interactive Vaulting Classes from 1 class with 5 special needs students to 3 classes for 15 special needs students.
*Pilot an equine facilitated mental health program.
*Repair and replace equipment for the horses: saddles, bridles, saddle pads, grooming kits, vaulting equipment, etc.
*Summer camp program for special needs children and their siblings.
*On-going training and education for our staff.

Total Project Budget: $270,000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): COMMITTED
Gemcon Family Trust – $32,000
McQueen Smith Foundation – $5,000
Dreyfus Foundation – $5,000
Children\’s Charities of Adios – $15,000
Scaife Family foundaiton – $6,000

PENDING
More Family Foundation – $20,000
Gore Foundation – $20,000
Blowitz/Ridgeway Foundation – $14,000

Project Duration: July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013
Geographical Area Served: 4% Miami/Dade, 49% Broward, 47% Palm Beach counties
Age Group To Be Served: Children age 4 to 18

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs.
Contact First Name: Amanda
Contact Last Name: DeBord
Contact Title: Executive Director
Contact Phone: 954-974-2007
Contact Email: mandy@hhsfl.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: LifeNet4Families
Legal Name (if Different): The Cooperative Feeding Program, Inc.
Also Known As: LifeNet4Families and/or The Edward W. Smith, Jr. Family Nutrition Center
Mailing Address: 1 NW 33 Terrace
City: Lauderhill
State: FL
Postal Code: 33311-8460
Main Phone: 954-792-2328
Main Fax: 954-792-9982
Organization Website: www.LifeNet4Families.org
Employer ID Number: 59-2696451
Organization Tax Status: 501 c 3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 20, 2012
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: K.I.N.D. — Kids Impacted by National Depression
Project Description:

The K.I.N.D. program provides a funding pool to take care of the special needs of low-income children significantly impacted by our Nation\’s current economic depression. The funding will be used to help kids get dental, medical or eye care; back to school needs; Rx filling; holiday and birthday gifts; gift cards; counseling and intervention; prevention of abuse and neglect via financial help to pay rent, turn on utilities, etc.; transportation assistance; tutoring; school arts/music program financial help and more. So many of the problems our young children face can be significantly reduced with financial help- housing protected, bills paid to relieve stress or utility disconnect, nutritious food to assure that kids eat even when school is out, school outings and events that require fees, help with clothing, shoes, medications, eyeglasses, etc. Good parents are not able to meet the needs of their children in these economically distressed times. The extended economic depression has left our families in shambles, stressed to levels never seen before. In Florida we have higher rates of unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and hunger than the National average. We are here to help parents succeed by offering them direct assistance and also by linking them with our more than 100 collaborative agencies. The financial support we are seeking will help our struggling parents with caring for their kids, thus improving the existence and quality of life of the poor children who are seen at our one-stop center. This financial support gives us the opportunity to help kids with school related fees or supply needs, shoes, socks, underwear and uniforms. We never know what we might be called upon to assist with-from cataract surgery for a six year old, to arranging for a funeral for an infant who has diet. Poor families don\’t know what to do when faced with such tragedy. Hopefully, someone points them in our direction.

Total Project Budget: $325,546

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): The Batchelor Foundation, committed; United Way of Broward, committed; the Paul Palank Memorial Foundation, potential; The Edward W. Smith, Jr. Foundation, committed; general revenue and agency fund raising potential

Project Duration: October 1, 2012-September 30, 2013
Geographical Area Served: Broward County
Age Group To Be Served: Children of all ages

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
Contact First Name: Marti
Contact Last Name: Forman
Contact Title: Senior Grants Administrator
Contact Phone: 954-600-1432
Contact Email: Mart4man@gmail.com

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Youth Orchestras Of Central Virginia
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As: (formerly)Youth Orchestras of Charlottesville-Albemarle
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 4845 Charlottesville
City:
State: VA
Postal Code: 22905
Main Phone: 4349747776
Main Fax: n/a
Organization Website: www.yocva.org
Employer ID Number: 51-0233126
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)(3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 20, 2012
Requested Amount: $3000.00

Project Title: Scholarships for young musicians needing lessons and instruments
Project Description:

YOCV has been a continued source for young musicians, regardless of their family\’s financial situation, to learn and play an instrument and to perform with a first rate orchestra. Through our scholarship program, we provide lessons, instrument rental, and tuition assistance. We reach out and identify young children who have limited resources and assist them in developing a life long love of music through performance.

Total Project Budget: $5000.00

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): May 2, 2012 Fund Raising Dinner (committed) at Orzo Restaurant as well as student planned activities to help raise scholarship funds. We also plan to designate concert donations in May to our scholarship fund.

Project Duration: September 2012-May 2013
Geographical Area Served: 12 counties throughout Central Virginia
Age Group To Be Served: 10-18 years

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms
Contact First Name: Scot
Contact Last Name: Jonte
Contact Title: General Manager
Contact Phone: 4349747776
Contact Email: yoca_evans@yahoo.com

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Kids Ecology Corp
Legal Name (if Different): Partners in Action, LLC
Also Known As:
Mailing Address: 1350 East Sunrise Blvd., Suite 106
City: FT Lauderdale
State: FL
Postal Code: 33304-2815
Main Phone: 954 524 0366
Main Fax: 954 524 0368
Organization Website: www.kidsecologycorp.org
Employer ID Number: 59-2090310
Organization Tax Status: non-profit tax exempt 501(c)(3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 3/20/2012
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: \"The Hermanowski Sea Turtles Project\"
Project Description:

The goal of this Eco-Action on Sea Turtles is to increase awareness in the middle school age students of the status of sea turtles so they can become stewards/advocates for a healthy sustainable ecology. This grant will fund these components:
1- Project Sea Turtle Curriculum and Syllabus development to meet FL teaching standards- Project life is 5 years.
2- Training of Eco-Action presenters
3- Scholarships for up to 100 middle school students for the half-day trip to study turtles

Curriculum will direct Students to:
Learn the 7 species of sea turtles
Identify the food sources of each
demonstrate knowledge of the life cycle of the sea turtle
Understand the need to protect nesting sites

SEA TURTLES Eco-Action Lesson Plan
Students will be introduced to the topic of sea turtles and administered a pre-test for a base line of information.
The lesson presented includes elementary facts of sea turtles, species, habitats,life cycle, dangers to sea turtles, and how to protect nesting sites.

Students will visit a nesting site in the supervision of a KEC Eco-Action presenter and a nature specialist (park ranger or sea turtle steward at the beach park) to see first hand the environment the female sea turtles and the young have to face for survival. These challenges include: people on the beach and nest vulnerability, garbage on the beach that pose problems to survival, natural predators to eggs as well as hatchlings.

Students will participate in a ‘create’ activity of turtle art where natural items gathered from nature will be used to collage turtle forms which will then be used by to tell the story of the sea turtle and its life.

A post test is then administered to measure knowledge growth from this eco-action activity.

Total Project Budget: $12,000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): All overhead and administrative costs for this project are funded by a matching grant from Leonard Solomon. These costs are $2,000.00.

Project Duration: The life of the curriculum is 5 years, Scholarships will be used within a year of funding.
Geographical Area Served: South Florida
Age Group To Be Served: middle school students ages 12-14

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
Contact First Name: Joan
Contact Last Name: Starr
Contact Title: CEO
Contact Phone: 954 524-0366
Contact Email: joanstarr@kidsecologycorp.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Kristi House, Inc.
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As: Kristi House Orlowtiz-Lee Children\’s Advocacy Center
Mailing Address: 1265 NW 12 Avenue
City: Miami
State: FL
Postal Code: 33136
Main Phone: 305-547-6800
Main Fax: 305-547-6816
Organization Website: www.kristihouse.org
Employer ID Number: 65-0576650
Organization Tax Status: 501 c 3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 15, 2012
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: Healing the Hurt of Child Sexual Abuse
Project Description:

Kristi House was organized in 1994 as a Task Force to fill the unmet critical need in Miami-Dade County for specialized and coordinated services for child victims of sexual abuse. As a result, Kristi House was founded and began providing case coordination services in 1996. By the end of the first year, six times the number of cases expected came in. Kristi House leaders took steps to built its CAC to provide a special environment for the collocation of agencies involved in handling the emotional, physical, and legal needs of sexually abused children. Kristi House opened the Orlowitz-Lee CAC at its main location in 1999. Three satellite offices in southern and northern ends of Miami-Dade County were opened in 2006 and 2007 to serve more therapy clients, and a Drop-in Center was opened in Spring 2009 for commercially sexually exploited children. Annually 800 cases are handled by Kristi House.
Therapy is a critical component in helping children overcome the trauma of child sexual abuse. Kristi House is the only agency in Miami-Dade County providing specialized mental health services regardless of families’ ability to pay. Because untreated child sexual abuse often manifests itself in health, sexual and social problems throughout life–and at a considerable cost to the greater community–it is vitally important that Kristi House provides sexually abused children with mental health services. Unfortunately, very limited public funding exists to help these young, vulnerable victims of crime. Kristi House is dedicated, nevertheless, to ensuring that all children receive the help they need by its highly trained and qualified therapists who use best practice, proven interventions to provide mental health services to child-victims and their families. We are dedicated to helping children break free of the silence, secrecy, and shame that should never define a child’s life.

Total Project Budget: 905,802

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Public sources committed to therapy support currently include Florida Dept. of Children & Families ($62,500), Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe ($77,000), U.S. Dept. of Justice ($50,000), City of Miami Gardens ($12,000). Medicaid reimbursement for those clients who qualify is historically based at $125,000 annually. Private sources committed and their annual amounts include The Miami Foundation ($33,000), Peacock Foundation ($80,000), Paul Palank Memorial Foundation ($47,000), Pearl Foundation ($15,000), National Children\’s Alliance ($50,000). Applications are pending before The Miami Foundation Denise Moon Fund and the Kennedy Family Foundation. Kristi House’s annual Touch a Heart Dinner nets between $300,000 and $350,000, of which a considerable portion is dedicated to therapy.

Project Duration: one year, although therapy work is ongoing
Geographical Area Served: Miami-Dade County
Age Group To Be Served: 2-18

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
Contact First Name: Trudy
Contact Last Name: Novicki
Contact Title: Executive Director
Contact Phone: 305-547-6836
Contact Email: tnovicki@kristihouse.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Khan Academy
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As:
Mailing Address: PO Box 1630
City: Mountain View
State: California
Postal Code: 94042
Main Phone: 6503319319
Main Fax:
Organization Website: www.khanAcademy.org
Employer ID Number: 26-1544963
Organization Tax Status: 501c3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 14, 2012
Requested Amount: 10,000

Project Title: Coach and Teacher Took-Kit:
Project Description:

Khan Academy is a 501(c)3 educational not-for-profit organization with a mission to “provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.”

We believe that students of all ages should have free, unlimited access to top-notch educational content on any topic and that students (of all ages) should be able to consume and master this content at their own pace. Khan Academy is comprised of five main elements (Content, Exercises, Data & Analytics, Teacher Took-Kit and Discovery Lab Summer Camps) that are freely available to all users through our website.

We believe that new educational institutions and models emerge at major inflection points in history and that the information revolution is one of those inflection points. With the technology that exists today, we are working to fundamentally transform education.

Sal Khan, the Founder and CEO talks about how he got started in his 2011 TED talk “Salman Khan: Let\’s use video to reinvent education“ (goo.gl/EIy4R) which has now been viewed over 5M times. A recent segment that aired on 60 Minutes also provides a great insight into our work. (http://goo.gl/XtBaF)

We would like to leverage a grant from the The Charles and Joan Hermanowski Family Foundation to continue our work developing our “Teacher Took-Kit”. Based on the work that we have been doing with several schools to implement Khan Academy in the classroom, we are creating this online “toolkit” to empower teachers, parents and mentors (who we call “coaches”) with the tools they need to leverage our content and platform in their homes and schools.

Thank you for considering our request.

Total Project Budget: Ongoing

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Beyond our initial startup funding from Google and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Khan Academy has received funding from Reed Hastings, the O\’Sullivan Foundation, the Valhalla Charitable Foundation, the McCall McBain Foundation, and John & Ann Doerr. We also continue to raise donations online from users who love our platform and the success they have achieved as a result of using it. See a sample of the thousands of testimonials we receive at:

http://www.khanacademy.org/stories

Project Duration: Ongoing
Geographical Area Served: The world.
Age Group To Be Served: Mainly K-12

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mr.
Contact First Name: Keith
Contact Last Name: Powers
Contact Title: Head of Strategic Development
Contact Phone: 6503319319
Contact Email: keith@khanacademy.org