Jasper Newton Foundation Inc. (JNF) has received a matching fund grant totaling $550,000 through the eighth phase of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s initiative, Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT VIII).
COVID-19 has only added to challenges many child care providers face, especially in rural areas. New partnerships are helping some groups address those challenges, like staffing and funding, to make more high-quality care available. But rural providers are mostly on their own to solve a growing list of problems, and many say it s up to their communities to support child care or face the fallout from a lack of options.
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RENSSELAER â Thanks to the friends and family of Jeff Goad, Rensselaer Parks program director Heather Hall will see a vision become reality with the construction of the Jeff Goad Healthy Youth Parks Education Recreation (HYPER) Center for Education at Brookside Park this summer.
The permanent education center will allow Hall to host classes for arts, gardening, STEM learning and healthy food preparation in a safe indoor environment that protects participants from the outside elements.
âWe offer five camps in the summer,â Hall said, âbut we should be able to grow that quite a bit.
âI would like to see us offer more year-round programs at the park and this will help us get there.â
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