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PRESCOTT COLLEGE AWARDED
YAVAPAI COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GRANT FOR SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM
The Yavapai County Community Foundation has awarded Prescott College a grant
to help provide free breakfasts and lunches to Prescott-area children during
the summer months.
Last spring Prescott College Adult Degree Program student Kiarah Morgan
began an inquiry to discover who fills the void during the summer months
when local public schools are closed and the free lunches and breakfasts
served at school to low income children are not available. She discovered
that no one fills the void and hundreds of low-income children in Prescott
are hungry in the summer.
Although Morgan set a goal for finding a sustainable solution to this perennial
summer problem, she determined a way to immediately help these children in
the interim while she did her problem solving.
Through a collaborative effort with the Prescott Unified School District
and funding from the National School Lunch Program, Morgan set up a breakfast
and lunch program that fed more than 7,300 meals to hungry Prescott children
this past summer.
Morgan plans to do the same again next summer, while working with the school
district to help them set up a program that will offer summer meals even
though local schools are closed. She anticipates that such a program will
be in place by the summer of 2003, which means that she will again sustain
the program next summer before turning it over to the school district.
"This grant will allow us to serve more children and meet the need
for food in the Prescott area," said Morgan.
"The $2,300 grant from the Yavapai County Community Foundations helps
to fill the gap between what the program actually costs to run and the amount
of federal funding available," explained Prescott College Chief Advancement
Officer Mary Jane Joyal.
"Prescott College is very proud to have the Yavapai County Community
Foundation as a partner in this student-led endeavor to feed the hungry children
of Prescott during the summer," said Prescott College President Dan
Garvey. "Their support of this project makes this a true, collaborative
community event, which not only guarantees that we will be able to provide
this needed service, but brings the plight of the children in our own neighborhoods
to the attention of the community at large."
The Yavapai County Community Foundation is an affiliate of the Arizona Community
Foundation.
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