For immediate
release: June 4, 2004
Inasmuch
Foundation Gives $4 Million in Grants to
Oklahoma Educational, Arts and Humanitarian Organizations
Latest Grants Total Largest
Contribution in Foundation’s 22-year History
(Oklahoma City) ---- The Inasmuch Foundation announced today
the distribution of more than $4 million in grants to 37 Oklahoma
organizations, marking the largest total grant distribution
in the foundation’s 22-year history.
Edith Kinney Gaylord founded the Inasmuch
Foundation in 1982 to support charitable, scientific and educational
causes that enhance the progress and quality of life for Oklahomans.
Today, the foundation is committed to carry on the immense
interests of its late founder by giving to education, health
and human services, cultural organizations, the arts, historic
preservation and environmental concerns.
“The foundation board was pleased
to have the opportunity to award grants to such a wide variety
of organizations that provide a breadth of services for our
communities and for Oklahomans,” said Robert J. Ross,
vice president and executive director of the Inasmuch Foundation.
Ross said the grant amounts range from $3,500 to $1 million
and fund causes from medical research and capital building
projects to the arts and easing homelessness.
“Edith Kinney Gaylord was a visionary
who quietly gave financial support to a wide range of organizations
and projects that shared the common themes of compassion for
those less fortunate, enrichment of lives through knowledge
and beauty, and a willingness to embrace the future. This
list of grant recipients reflects those qualities and Edith’s
lifelong desire to do the most good for the most people,”
Ross said.
Some of the projects receiving grants from
the Inasmuch Foundation this grant cycle include:
• $150,000 for a new building to house
Celebrations! Educational Services Inc. which provides quality
bilingual preschool and kindergarten education to help multicultural
inner-city children increase their learning readiness and
English proficiency before staring elementary school.
• $225,000 to the Homeless Alliance
to create a new, coordinated system to provide services to
the homeless in Oklahoma City.
• $500,000 for Children’s Medical
Research Institute to fund the Edith Kinney Gaylord Endowed
Chair for Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes within the Center for
the Study of Metabolic Disorders.
• $1 million to establish the Edith
Kinney Gaylord Freshman Writing Program at the University
of Oklahoma. This new initiative is based on a Harvard University
model designed to help freshman in all disciplines learn to
become better writers by developing their abilities to think
and organize more clearly and analytically.
• $285,000 to assist the Oklahoma
City Museum of Art in hosting the Millet to Matisse
special exhibit from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow,
Scotland. The 64-piece collection features some of the world’s
finest paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet and Matisse.
Additional funding was given to provide free tickets and transportation
for Oklahoma school children to view the exhibit.
• A total of $900,000 to help fund
capital improvement projects and equipment needs at Classen
School of Advance Studies, Casady School, Bishop McGuiness
Catholic High School, Heritage Hall, and Westminster School.
• $50,000 for the Center on Child
Abuse and Neglect at the University of Oklahoma to train professionals
to take state, national and international leadership roles
in the prevention and treatment of child maltreatment.
Other organizations and institutions receiving
grants from the Inasmuch Foundation are: Arts Council of OKC;
Boys and Girls Clubs of Oklahoma City; Calm Waters Center
for Children and Families; Camp Eagle Wings; Citizens Caring
for Children; City Arts Center; CONTACT Crisis Helpline; Friends
of the Duncan Public Library; KIPP Reach Academy Charter School;
Mental Health Association in Oklahoma County; NAMI Oklahoma;
Oklahoma Arts Institute; Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy;
Oklahoma City Beautiful; Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence;
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; Oklahoma Philharmonic
Society; Oklahoma Zoological Society; OK Mozart; Partners
in Philanthropy; Presbyterian Urban Missions; Prevent Blindness
Oklahoma; RARC, Inc.; Santa Fe South High School; Variety
Health Center; Youth Services for Oklahoma County.
To learn more about the Inasmuch Foundation,
visit www.inasmuchfoundation.org,
or call 405-604-5292.
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