PalmBeachPost.com: ‘BallenIsles Tops its Charity Fundraising Record’

Paws for Liberty 2017

by Tony Doris

BallenIsles Charities Foundation has raised $500,000 that it will present Feb. 28 in grants to 42 charities in West Palm Beach and throughout the county.

The amount, a record for the volunteer, nonprofit effort based in Palm Beach Gardens, brings the cumulative grants awarded by the foundation to more than $1.7 million over the six years since its formation.

The 2017 beneficiaries include:

ADOPT A FAMILY OF THE PALM BEACHES, INC.

Provides homeless students with school clothes, supplies, hygiene items.

ALLAMANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Provides popular and favorite author series and series books to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms.

ALZHEIMER’S COMMUNITY CARE

Provides I.D. Locator Services for a Nurse Consultant to train and counsel care givers of patients.

BACK TO BASICS

Provides sets of school clothes to needy children.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, INC.

Provides children with educational material for the already successful robotics program.

BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

Provides funding for a large animal transit trailer and mobile disaster command unit.

CARIDAD CENTER, INC.

Provides dental visits to children of the working poor.

CARSON SCHOLARS FUND

Provides funding for a reading room in an elementary school.

CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING

Provides for a therapist for children in need before moving to foster care or other safe venues.

CHILDNET

Provides funding for daily operational expenses of food, hygiene items, stuffed animal for abused, abandoned and neglected children.

CHILDREN’S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA

Provides for mother and baby in the Transitions Home program.

CLINICS CAN HELP

Provides new pediatric adaptive wheelchairs to children with special needs.

FEED THE HUNGRY

Provides meals to the hungry.

FIRST TEE OF THE PALM BEACHES

Provides program funding for those with special needs, disabilities and kids from low income families.

GRANDMA’S PLACE

Provides care for children removed from their homes due to neglet or abuse

GRATITUDE HOUSE

Provides treatment for mother and her baby

H.A.C.E.R. MINISTRY CORP.

Provides families with 15-16 lbs. of food twice per month and supports the Thanksgiving Project.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, INC.

Provides funding for The Weitz Construction Academy at Seminole Ridge High School to Build 1 Home.

HEALTHY MOTHERS, HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF PBC, INC.

Provides Babies with infant packs containing diapers, baby formula, baby food, bottle, and spoon.

INLET GROVE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

Provides licenses to access computer program reading material.

JACK THE BIKE MAN, INC.

Provides supplies needed to repair the bikes as well as bike helmets, bike chains and locks.

KIDSAFE FOUNDATION

Provides in school classes teaching children about abuse and personal safety.

MCCARTHY’S WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, INC.

Provides for the funding of a new van used to transport animals.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PALM BEACH SECTION

Provides for a Kids Closet stocked with school clothing for a Title One School.

PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK

Provides food for the weekend to children and their families for nine weeks.