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Children’s Foundation Of Palm Beach County Launches

‘The Partnership,’ An Initiative To Provide $50,000

Grants To Five Local Children’s Charities

T he Chi l dre n’ s for an entire school year through their Back-Pack Food computers and enhanced network infrastructure to
Foundation of Palm Distribution Program. continue with virtual school.
Bea ch Count y has Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County will send Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital will provide 750
launched an initiative, 100 underserved kids to one week sleep away camp this critical therapy sessions for children who have long-term
“The Partnership,” which summer. This is a life changing experience. degenerative medical conditions that require continuing
will grant five $50,000 Center for Family Services the S.A.F.E. Kids Program, physical care.
donations to programs by will treat 20 children for two months from various forms Sweet Dream Makers will supply 200 children with
local children’s charities. of abuse and/or violence. beds who are now sleeping on the floor, a sofa, or sharing
The foundation is The Education Foundation of Palm Beach County will a bed with siblings.
inviting the community to provide backpacks and all the school supplies needed YMCA of the Palm Beaches will send 50 children
purchase “shares” in The for an entire year for 2,000 students in our highest risk at risk to summer day camp including meals for the full
Partnership for $500, with schools in the neighborhoods with the lowest median summer, allowing their parents to continue working.
each “share” representing income. The Partnership was spearheaded by foundation board
a vote to help select the Executive Director Pam The Florence Fuller Child Development Centers/ members and Town of Palm Beach residents Sharyn
grant recipients. The Weinroth Caridad will run a yearlong course for adults where topics Frankel, Michelle Lucknow, Linda Schaps, Barbara
organizations vying for will include obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and Stoller Wittenstein, and Yvonne Ackerman.
these grants are listed below along with how the grants nutrition as COVID has created a challenge for mothers The Children’s Foundation of Palm Beach County was
will help children in the community. in lower socioeconomical demographics. established last year and is an affiliate of the Boca West
A Place of Hope will provide meals for children The Junior League of Boca Raton will provide 350 Children’s Foundation, which has granted more than $11
residing at their campuses for four months. children in the greatest need with diapers for a full year. million in the past 11 years to its 31 nonprofit partners.
Boca Helping Hands will be able to provide six The Jewish Adoption & Foster Care Options will
weekend meals for an additional 200 children each week provide all the children living on the campus with Children’s Foundation on page 4
Habitat For Humanity Of South Palm Beach County

Presents ‘Women’s Build Fundraiser Like No Other’

While the whole world continues to be upended by – founded in 1991 – that enlists and encourages women • expand the onsite build from three days (five shifts)
COVID-19, South Palm Beach County Habitat Partner across the country, with or without any construction skills, to four days (eight shifts) to accommodate a lesser,
Families, who had been struggling before the pandemic, to fundraise and build homes for families in their local limited number of builders per shift. CDC, state and
are now facing even more challenges as they desperately communities. county construction and healthcare protocols will be in
await their Habitat homes to be built. That is why this year’s Women Build Registration Now Open. To register to place, masks required, plenty of hand sanitizer, boxed
HFHSPBC’s 2021 Women Build cochairs, committee and build, set up your online fundraising page and/or learn more refreshments, etc.;
Habitat staff and construction team are presenting a “Build about Women Build, sponsorship opportunities, visit www. • offer two new ways to build: options to build-at-home
Your Way” theme for this year’s initiative, with a fun, socially HabitatSouthPalmBeach.org or contact Marta Knowles at: or join-now-build-later;
distanced outdoor “Get Your Pink On” launch meeting. mknowles@hfhboca.org or (561) 819-6070, Ext. 208. • reset the traditional building eligibility minimum of
Habitat for Humanity of
An Experiential Fundraiser Like No Other South Palm Beach County
Women Build brings together generations of mission- President and CEO Randy
driven women annually to help transform their community Nobles reports that –
in the days leading up to Mother’s Day (May 5, 6, 7 following much discussion,
and 8) as they raise hammers, roofs, and money to help due diligence, surveying
hardworking, low-income families build strength, stability, Women Build leadership,
and self-reliance. HFHSPBC’s “Sisterhood of the Pink Hard health professionals, and
Hat” women-only initiative uniquely combines experiential construction team members
fundraising with “camaraderie-of-a-rare-kind.” It is part – this year’s Women Build’s
of the Habitat for Humanity National “Women Build” initiative will:

St. Andrews Country Club resident Marcia Tabatchnick (left)
teams up with her daughter during the previous Women
2021 Women Build Cochairs Build; Marcia served on the event committee.
Robyn Raphael-Dynan and
Beverly Raphael Altman Habitat For Humanity on page 2