Olive Crest is a therapeutic foster care placement agency specializing in caring for children that whose reason for being in foster care stems from having experienced extreme abuse and neglect.

The recent grant so generously given by The Moyer Foundation will be allocated within our programs division to enhance several of the services that are offered to our children and families. After school outings with case managers, music lessons, horseback riding lesson, tutoring sessions and cultural activities are a few of the expenses that will be covered through The Moyer Foundation funding.
www.olivecrest.org

Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County is the safe, positive place for kids in Whatcom County. Since 1946, BGCWC has helped thousands of area youth in after school programs and recreational activities.

The Moyer Foundation is helping to meet the needs of a struggling island community. The geographically-isolated youth and teens of Lummi Island are the focus of this project. This grant is helping to outreach to island youth and provide expanded teen services and educational and computer programs with positive adult role models in consistent and fun, engaging opportunities for these youth.
www.whatcomclubs.org

First Place is both an elementary school and a social services agency for children and families struggling with the risks and realities of homelessness.

Funding from The Moyer Foundation directly helps open the doors of a brand new Early Learning program, which extends our continuum of care and education to children between the ages of 3 and 5. Numerous reports have described the urgent need for early child education for children who are homeless, in addition to services which can alleviate the trauma caused by their family’s homelessness. A safe, enriching preschool environment will normalize the situation for these children, prepare them for kindergarten, and assist their families by providing a viable preschool alternative in the same location where the parents are receiving services and older siblings are attending school.
www.firstplaceschool.org

Intercommunity Mercy Housing (IMH) provides quality, affordable, service-enriched housing to individuals and families who are economically poor.

Grant funding from The Moyer Foundation will support the Bilingual Afterschool Program at Sterling Meadows Apartments in Bellingham. Homework Club is the major component of the program and takes place five days a week during the school year, focusing on academic and social development. Activities include one-on-one tutoring and homework help, guided vocabulary exercises to support literacy, quiet reading, independent study, healthy snacks and structured social time, supervised computer lab, arts and crafts, and other group activities.
www.mercyhousing.org

Since 1965, Northwest Center has been advocating for the rights and independence of people with developmental disabilities.

Hanen© Parent Education Classes provide strategies and methods to promote speech and language development for parents whose children have limited or no speech/language skills. When a child’s speech and language skills are delayed or absent, the stresses on the family can be enormous. The program provides parents with valuable tools to help their developmentally delayed and/or disabled child learn essential language and communication skills, increasing their child’s opportunities for success.
www.nwcenter.org

Our Place is an emergency services center in Spokane's West Central neighborhood. Two thirds of those who come to Our Place are elderly, disabled or under the age of 18.

Due to the generosity of The Moyer Foundation, the children we serve will be able to have new shoes to start school! 91% of the children in our neighborhood receive free or reduced lunch, so a new pair of shoes is usually out of their family budget. With this grant, children will be able to select a pair of shoes that fit their foot size and their individuality.
www.ourplacedc.org

For 20 years Rise n' Shine has served the emotional support needs of children and teens affected by HIV/AIDS.

Through a grant from The Moyer Foundation, Rise n' Shine will be able to continue providing Magic Circle support groups for ages 6 through 13. Magic Circle is a safe confidential setting for children to work through anticipatory grief or as appropriate, grief and loss. In addition healthy family dynamics and feelings are explored as they learn how to process fears and concerns about the disease. Children also receive HIV/AIDS education. Crucial to this education is learning the connection between their individual actions and personal responsibility in preventing infection.
www.risenshine.org

The donation from The Moyer Foundation makes an important difference in the lives of children living in extreme poverty. These funds will be used exclusively in our “Beds for Children” program. This includes bed frame, mattress, box spring, pillow, pillowcase, two sheets, and two blankets. The children and families we work with live in desperate poverty, and the boys and girls that receive our beds are otherwise sleeping on cardboard boxes, scraps of old carpet, or on the bare floor. Many have never had a real bed of their own.
www.svdpusa.org

The Healing Center offers comprehensive grief-support services for adults, children and families who have experienced the death of a family member. The grant from The Moyer Foundation helps fund our youth and teen programs for 2008-2009, enabling us to meet the needs of more young people in the local community who have lost a parent or other loved one. These funds are being used for our in-house support groups for toddlers through teens, our summer programs which include day camp and other special outings, and our ongoing school-outreach project.
www.thehealingcenter.org

Toddler Learning Center (TLC) has been serving infants and toddlers who have disabilities or developmental delays on Whidbey Island for the last 23 years. .

The Moyer Foundation has helped TLC to provide continuity of services and support over the summer months when funding is minimal or nonexistent. As the only developmental program on the Island, it has also enabled us to respond immediately to new children who are referred to us weekly. It has made a great difference for many little ones and their families.

Youth Resources is a non-profit organization offering housing, resources, counseling, support and solutions to homeless youth ages 13-21.

The Moyer Foundation generously contributed funds for the new Youth Drop-In Center for homeless and at-risk males & females ages 13-21 located in Spanaway. Food, clothing, medical care, or other services that youth need are offered either directly or by partnering agencies. Individual, group, drug, alcohol, mental health and family counseling are offered through partnering agencies, teen clinics, and drug & mental health intervention services. Also outreach to homeless, displaced and at-risk youth through local partnerships with school districts to provide on site: non-perishable food & personal hygiene items.