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For immediate
release: November 9, 2005
Inasmuch
Foundation Awards $7.21 Million in Grants to
Oklahoma
Organizations
(Oklahoma
City) ---- The Inasmuch Foundation announced
today the distribution of $7.21 million in grants to 68 Oklahoma organizations.
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 carrying on the interests of its
late founder by giving to education, health and human services, cultural
organizations, the arts, historic preservation and environmental
concerns.
“The Inasmuch Foundation is proud to
support so many wonderful institutions across Oklahoma,” said Robert J. Ross,
President and CEO of the Inasmuch Foundation. “We hope that
the grants announced today encourage others to support these
organizations that are truly making a difference in the lives of
thousands of citizens of this State.”
Organizations awarded grants from the Inasmuch
Foundation include:
·
$2 million to Dean A. McGee Eye
Institute Capital Campaign for a 60,000 square foot clinical research
building. The new building will permit current DMEI clinical,
educational and research programs to be incorporated into one facility
and provide recruitment of eight new clinicians with a projected 37%
increase in patient capacity. Combined with a previous grant of
$500,000, the total support for the building is $2.5 million.
·
$1.5 million matching grant to
Lyric Theatre to renovate Oklahoma
City’s historic Plaza Theatre on northwest 16th Street.
The Campaign will provide funds for the creation of a 300-seat theatre,
an annual children’s musical festival, and allow the expansion of
the winter season, Lyric
Academy, workshops,
master classes, and staged readings.
·
$1 million to Sunbeam Family
Services for the expansion of the Child Development
Center at SW 41st.
The expansion will allow Sunbeam to triple its capacity for children
birth to three and double its capacity for four and five year olds.
The increased capacity will provide resources for families living in
neighborhoods served by Columbus, Rancho
Village, Arthur, John Adams,
Stand Watie, Coolidge, Hillcrest, Herronville, John Glen and Prairie Queen Elementary schools.
·
$750,000 to Friends of the
State Museum of History for a special project that will be announced by
Dr. Bob Blackburn during the museum’s grand opening November 16,
2005.
·
$250,000 to Oklahoma City
Economic Development Foundation
for the Forward
Oklahoma City III campaign of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of
Commerce.
·
$200,000 to Mercy Foundation
for the Mercy Cancer Resource Center, a 6,000
square-foot facility with a reference library and resource area, three
family consulting rooms, community education room, and a respite area.
·
$120,000 to Wilson Arts
Integration School
to
build the instrumental music classroom. Wilson Arts is an
elementary school serving a diverse but predominantly lower-income
student population. The “Finish Wilson Right” campaign seeks
to provide funding for the four arts classrooms to be included in the
main school building.
·
$100,000 to Oklahoma City
Public Schools Foundation
for the College for
All program, a partnership with Princeton Review to place college
facilitators in middle and high schools to educate students and parents
on steps needed for a successful college career.
·
$30,000 to Smart Start Oklahoma for Annual Community Training. The training plan
was developed by the sixteen Smart Start Oklahoma communities to ensure that
children are prepared and ready to learn when they start
kindergarten.
·
$15,000 to Oklahoma Lawyers for
Children for the Shelter and Home Study Volunteer Program that recruits
and trains law students and volunteers in the community to serve children
removed from their homes and placed in the DHS shelter.
·
Grants ranging
from $50,000 to $125,000 include The Education and Employment Ministry;
Marland Estate Foundation; McCall’s Chapel School; University of
Oklahoma (K-20 Center); and Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City.
·
Grants ranging from $25,000 to
$50,000 include Ballet Oklahoma, Canterbury Choral Society; Mental Health
Association in Oklahoma County; Mental Health Association in Tulsa;
Community Literacy Centers; University of Oklahoma (Sam Noble Oklahoma
Museum of Natural History); YWCA of Tulsa; Center for Nonprofits; Girl
Scouts – Red Lands Council; Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum;
Lincoln County Historical Society; Sisters of Benedict; United Way of
Central Oklahoma; University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma; and Youth
and Family Services for Hughes and Seminole Counties.
·
Grants ranging from $10,000 to
$25,000 include Infant Crisis Services; Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art;
Oklahoma Arts Institute; Oklahoma City Housing Services Redevelopment
Corporation a/k/a Positively Paseo; Oklahoma Humanities Council; Omniplex
Science Museum; Regional AIDS Intercommunity Network; Center for
Individuals with Physical Challenges; Armed Services YMCA of Lawton/Fort
Sill; Family & Children’s Services; Hospice of Green Country;
United Way of Pottawatomie County; Vietnamese American Association; YMCA of
Ponca City; Chisholm Trail Arts Council; Land Legacy; Tulsa Area United
Way; Tulsa Boys’ Home; Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless; and
United Way of Ponca City.
·
Grants ranging from $1,000 to
$10,000 include Greater Oklahoma City Tree Bank Foundation; Oklahoma
Youth Symphonies; Chamber Music in Oklahoma; City of Elk City, Oklahoma;
Henryetta Historical Society; Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park; Oscar
Jacobson Foundation; Presbyterian Urban Missions; Putnam City Parents as
Teachers; Street School; Windsong Chamber Choir; Tulsa Children’s
Chorus; Yukon Public Schools; Duncan Little Theatre; Elk City Housing
Authority; Oklahoma Endowment for Reading and Literacy; Referral Center
for Alcohol and Drug Services of Central Oklahoma; and Richard O. Dodrill’s
Museum of Rocks, Minerals and Fossils.
To learn more about the Inasmuch
Foundation, visit www.inasmuchfoundation.org
or call 405-604-5292.
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