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John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation

Grants Since 1997

1998 GRANTS

2008   2007   2006   2005   2004   2003

2002   2001   2000   1999   1998   1997

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Academy of Hope
For its tuition-free classes providing low-income adults with GED instruction and tutoring.
$5,000
Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc.
For advocacy training and direct services to help inner-city parents obtain special education programs for their children.
5,000
Archbishop Carroll High School
Scholarships for low-income students.
10,000
Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless, Inc.
Support of the Adopt-A-Family program.
5,000
Barker Foundation
For social services, counseling and foster care expenses not covered by adoption fees, and for merger expenses.
25,000
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the National Capital Area
For its comprehensive mentoring program.
10,000
Black Student Fund
Start up funding for its new Summer Program.
15,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington
Support of programs for at-risk youth at the Eastern Branch and satellite clubs.
70,000
Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Clinic
For its interconnecting programs that serve the inner-city poor.
10,000
Bright Beginnings
For its day care program for preschool children whose families live in shelters or transitional housing.
10,000
Bucknell University
Unrestricted.
10,000
Capital Area Food Bank
To help it supply food to non-profit agencies that provide meals for their clients.
10,000
Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate
To support a forum on social trends.
10,000
Christ House
For its residential medical facility for the homeless.
10,000
Christian Communities Group Homes
For its permanent residences for low-income senior citizens.
10,000
Columbia Road Health Services
For its Health Care for Children project.
10,000
Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place
A challenge grant for its capital campaign to pay off the mortgages on its housing properties.
20,000
Community Family Life Services
To help build a new facility to house its programs for the inner-city poor.
25,000
The Company, Inc.
For its summer acting/arts program for at-risk, inner-city teens.
3,000
DC Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
To help replace office equipment that was stolen.
5,000
DePauw University
Unrestricted.
10,000
Dinner Program for Homeless Women
For its program that serves dinner five nights a week to homeless women.
15,000
The Doe Fund, Inc.
For Ready, Willing & Able-DC, a work/ training program for unemployed men.
5,000
Downtown Cluster's Geriatric Day Care Center
For its comprehensive day care program for frail, at-risk, poor seniors.
10,000
Emmaus Services for the Aging, Inc.
To help purchase and renovate a facility to house its programs for at-risk seniors.
25,000
Everybody Wins!
For its Power Lunch program that pairs business people with inner-city students to read together weekly at lunch time.
5,000
Fairfax Area Christian Emergency and Transitional Services
For its services to homeless families and enrichment programs at public housing sites.
10,000
Faith in the Family/USA
For its programs that strengthen families.
20,000
Falls Church-McLean Children's Center
For its early childhood full day program that serves working poor families.
5,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
A challenge grant for special fundraising to expand programs in Northern Virginia.
50,000
For Love of Children
For its Neighborhood Tutoring program for children living in the Shaw community.
20,000
The Foundation Center
Support of the Washington DC Library.
1,000
Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital
For its Summer Day Program for inner-city children.
15,000
Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services
To provide rental housing for the working poor who have been disqualified by landlords; and case management/transitional housing for homeless families.
10,000
Good Shepherd Ministries
For its after-school and summer programs for disadvantaged children and youth.
5,000
Growing Together
For its tutoring/enrichment after-school program for children who are not succeeding in grades K-9.
10,000
Hannah House
For its transitional housing programs for homeless women (and their children).
15,000
Healthy Babies Project
For its program that provides comprehensive prenatal care for at-risk pregnant women.
10,000
Healthy Families DC
For its five-year program that helps new mothers raise healthy children.
10,000
Here's Life Washington
For its Success Factors initiative to introduce business people to the spiritual dimension of life.
10,000
Hospice Care of D.C.
For its Uninsured and Underinsured Patients Program that subsidizes the cost of palliative care.
5,000
House of Ruth
For its programs that help abused and/or homeless women and their children move to independence.
20,000
Housing Opportunities for Women
For its program that provides permanent group homes for formerly homeless women.
5,000
Interages
For its Intergenerational Bridges Project that pairs senior citizen mentors with at-risk immigrant youth.
5,000
The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
For its DC outreach program that offers master classes to inner-city dance students.
5,000
Joseph's House
Half for general support for Miriam's House that serves women with AIDS and their children; half to help pay off the mortgage.
30,000
Joy of Sports Foundation
To integrate its Star Program into the curriculum of six DC inner-city preschools
5,000
Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area, Inc.
For its Economic Literacy Program at elementary schools in Prince George's County.
40,000
Lehigh University
Unrestricted.
10,000
Low Income Housing Fund
To help open its DC office.
10,000
Mary House
For its transitional houses/programs that help homeless families gain independence.
10,000
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care
For its bilingual programs that serve pregnant women and their children.
10,000
Metropolitan Washington Airports Interfaith Chapels
To support the chaplains who serve at Reagan National and Dulles airports.
25,000
Metropolitan/Delta Adult Literacy Council
For its Free Your Mind program that works with parents of Head Start children.
5,000
Midtown Youth Academy
For its athletic/education after-school violence and drug prevention program.
5,000
Montgomery Community College Foundation
To help develop humanities programs in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Museum Studies.
15,000
Multiple Sclerosis Society/National Capital
Area Chapter For its MS Emergency Fund.
15,000
N Street Village
For its programs and facilities that help move homeless women to independence.
10,000
National Council for Adoption
For its AIDS Orphan Project.
10,000
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
For its program that teaches inner-city youth how to enter the business world.
10,000
National Fund for the United States Botanic Garden
To help build the National Garden.
25,000
Noyes Children's Library Foundation
General operating support.
5,000
Parkmont School
To provide remedial studies and diagnostic testing for scholarship students.
10,000
Perry School Community Services Center
To help convert the building into a multi- service center for the disadvantaged.
25,000
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC
For its Church Partnership Program to prevent teen pregnancy.
5,000
Rockville Community Nursery School
Scholarships for low-income children.
4,000
Round House Theatre
For its Outreach Touring Program.
5,000
Samaritan Inns
To renovate three transitional inns for its Intensive Recovery Program.
54,000
See Forever
For its year-round Charter School for juvenile offenders and at-risk youth.
10,000
The Shepherd's Table
For its program that provides dinner and other services for the homeless.
10,000
Sojourners Neighborhood Center
For its Summer Freedom School.
5,000
Southeast Ministry
For its programs that serve mothers of young children, youth, teens and young men.
8,000
St. Columba's Episcopal Church
For its I Have a Dream class at Truesdell Elementary School.
10,000
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
For its Homeless Breakfast Program.
3,000
Studio Theatre
For its Arts Motivating Youth program.
5,000
The Support Center of Washington
For its non-profit management training programs at inner-city locations.
10,000
Urban Family Development
For its Junior High Summer Program.
5,000
The Washington Ballet
$10,000 for its outreach program DanceLinks and $5,000 for financial stabilization.
15,000
Washington Very Special Arts
For its educational arts programs for children and youth with special needs.
5,000
Women Empowered Against Violence
For its programs that empower victims of domestic violence.
10,000
Zacchaeus Soup Kitchen
For its program that feds the hungry six mornings a week.
5,000
81 Grants Totaling $l,023,000