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Tampa’s 2nd Chance Center 4 Boyz At Miles Elementary Wins $25,000 State Farm Neighborhood Assist® Grant
1.8 million votes were cast in an effort to bring a $25k Neighborhood Assist grant to their neighborhoods, and Tampa’s 2nd Chance Center 4 Boyz at Miles Elementary was among the Top 40 vote getters - winning a $25,000 grant to support mentoring in the Tampa community.
2nd Chance Center 4 Boyz was 1 of only 2 Florida organ- izations to win a $25,000 State Farm Neighborhood As- sist grant.
The 2nd Chance Center 4 Boyz community mentoring partnership program provides delinquency prevention and diversion program for at-risk boys. The mentoring program will serve Miles Elementary, where scores have required the school to lengthen their school day by an hour.
“Considering the high poverty rate and lack of re- sources, this $25,000 grant will have a far reaching impact on the outcomes not only for this school but for the stu- dents, their families, and the surrounding community as
well,” said Keith Babb, di- rector for 2nd Chance Center 4 Boyz.
“This grant will allow us to provide parent engagement workshops, character devel- opment groups for students, incentives for students to en- courage their academic progress, and peer to peer mentoring training. This will help us meet a number of unmet needs in this commu- nity.”
State Farm Neighborhood Assist is a crowd-sourced phil- anthropic program that em- powers communities to identify issues in their neigh- borhoods. The affiliated non- profits of the top 40 causes will each receive a $25,000 grant to create and execute a plan to address the cause. The top 40 causes represented 25 states from around the coun- try.
Of the 2,000 cause sub- missions that were received through State Farm Neighbor- hood Assist, at least one cause was received from every state intheU.S.
From the left are: Benjamin Kelly, District Secretary for Rep. Shawn Harrison; Michelle Stone and Greg Cannella, Miles Elementary School Administrators; Keith Babb, Director for 2nd Chance Center 4 Boyz; and Herma White and Joyce Coleman, State Farm Agents.
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