CAMDEN – Tess Holley described the reaction when The Neighborhood Center, a nonprofit that focuses on the city’s youth, learned it had received a grant for the first time from the Camden Education Fund.
“Really? We got it?” Holley, the Center’s assistant director, said was the response when the Center learned it would get a $40,000 grant – the Fund’s largest this year to organizations that serve youth.
On July 24, Holley was with leaders of some of the other 26 nonprofits who were at the Camden Arts Yard celebrating Camden Education Fund annual grants totaling $475,000.
“We are thrilled to provide more funding and support to youth-serving organizations that create important opportunities for Camden students,” Giana Campbell, the Camden Education Fund executive director, said in a statement.
“This year we’ve focused some of our largest grants in a few key areas, inclusive of social-emotional learning and mental health supports, and organizations focused on catching students up academically. By investing in YSOs that support critical areas like these, they can help students to fully recover from the pandemic and fulfill their amazing potential in the future.”
The CEF is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to accelerating progress in Camden’s public school system.
Holley told TAPinto Camden that The Neighborhood Center will use the grant money to help reduce the costs to parents for the infant care, after school or other youth programs sponsored by her nonprofit.
The Camden native, who has worked at the 278 Kaighn Ave. center for 25 years, said the nonprofit over the summer is working with 120 children in its programs.
Nonprofits winning grants from the Camden Education Fund:
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