St. Louis for Kids Receives Grant Money

St. Louis For Kids Receives Grants Totaling $21,000 to Improve Afterschool Programs in Low-Income Neighborhoods

St. Louis for Kids today announced that it has been awarded grants, totaling $21,000, to support the organization's Afterschool Quality Initiative, a program that addresses the need for quality afterschool programs in low-income neighborhoods. The contributions were recently made by The Boeing Foundation and the Joseph H. and Florence A. Roblee Foundation.

The availability of high quality afterschool programs is a major issue facing working families, especially in low-income neighborhoods. The Afterschool Quality Initiative is specifically designed to provide the training and technical support that individual after-school programs in low-income neighborhoods need to work more effectively with children.

This new funding will be used to support St. Louis for Kids' 2006-07 goal to improve the quality of 25 St. Louis metropolitan afterschool programs in low income neighborhoods, benefiting more than 1,200 children.

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