Agencies across 2 counties receive grants | MailTribune.com

The Oregon Community Foundation awarded grants to Jackson County agencies totaling $210,633, and grants to Josephine County agencies totaling $53,000.

The largest grant was $60,000 to Rogue Workforce Partnership for the first of three years of potential support to create a program focused on connecting youth with business-related opportunities to ready them for the workforce and reduce high school dropout rates.

The partnership can apply for a $36,000 grant next year and $24,000 for the third year.

Other local grants are as follows:

Jackson County

• To Living Opportunities Inc., $50,000 to build community relationships and cultivate jobs in local businesses to employ people with developmental disabilities.
• To Rogue Valley Family YMCA, $33,000 to provide swimming lessons to low-income youths, access to water-fitness classes for low-income adults and seniors, showers and aquatic-assist devices for physically disabled individuals, and increased aquatic access for families.
• To Southern Oregon Public Television, $18,193 for the "Immense Possibilities" program, showcasing guests whose social creations help build vibrant communities and address substantive regional needs broadcast via SOPTV and the Internet.
• To CASA of Jackson County, $16,500 to expand advocacy services to an additional 50 foster children this year.
• To Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team, $17,940 to develop and implement a sexual violence prevention program for Ashland high school and middle school students, staff and parents.
• To HOPE Equestrian Center, $15,000 to support the adopt-a-rider program, providing therapeutic horseback riding for individuals with physical, emotional and learning disabilities who would otherwise be unable to participate due to income barriers.

Josephine County

• To Boys and Girls Clubs of the Rogue Valley, $20,000 to support Project Learn, a program that reinforces and enhances the knowledge young people learn at school during the hours they spend at the Rogue Valley's four clubs.
• To Women's Crisis Support Team, $20,000 to support the violence education prevention program. The program provides teens with strategies, values and relationship skills needed to avoid violence.
• To Kerbyville Museum, $8,000 for renovations to the exterior of the historical house that serves as the museum.
• To Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center, $5,000 to provide on-site school-group tours for children in Jackson and Josephine counties. The tours are designed to be a tool for teachers to instruct students about the natural world.

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