Woods Charitable Fund - Grants in Education

EDUCATION


Bright Lights, Inc.	$7,500
Renewal support of its Development Coordinator position to increase the agency's long-term stability	$7,500
Lighthouse	$20,000
For support of its Truancy Intervention and Prevention program focusing on youth in grades 5 through 12 who have problems with school attendance	$20,000
Lincoln Literacy Council	$64,000
Renewal support for the English Language Academy, a program that extends volunteer tutors to over twenty collaborating ethnic and faith-based community partners in order to enhance and increase Lincoln's English Language services	$64,000
Nebraska Wesleyan University	$8,500
For a pilot project to increase the desire and capacity of 40 disadvantaged Lincoln-area high school students to pursue and succeed in higher education, in conjunction with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Upward Bound program	$8,500
Union College	$28,170
For the development and implementation of a program to help transition Lincoln students with disabilities into high school, college and adult life, in collaboration with Nebraska Department of Education, Lincoln Public Schools and Nebraska Advocacy Services	$28,170
YMCA of Lincoln	$20,000
Final payment of a three-year $60,000 grant to support before and after-school programming for low income children in grades K-8 who will be served at the new northwest YMCA to be co-located with the Lincoln Public Schools' new middle school	$20,000
TOTAL EDUCATION	$148,170