$25,000 Challenge Grant Issued to Southwest Virginia
Children's Advocacy Center
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The Southwest Virginia Children's Advocacy
Center of Mountain Empire
Older Citizens, Inc., has the opportunity to receive $50,000 in
greatly needed funds for the coming year, but they need your help to
do so.
The Julie Christopher and Marge Connelly Foundation has issued a
$25,000 Challenge Grant to MEOC to support the valuable work of the
Children's Advocacy Center. This means if the community and
MEOC can raise $25,000 in new funds, the Julie Christopher and Marge
Connelly Foundation will contribute an additional $25,000 to the
program.
"Our Foundation is very impressed with their success in putting
battered and badly abused children back together and in bringing
hope for the future in situations so destructive that one can hardly
imagine them," Julie Christopher said. "That is one of many
reasons that we have chosen to make this year's grant a Challenge
Grant to the larger community they serve. Southwest Virginia
is so fortunate to have the Children's Advocacy Center and we are
determined to see it survive these lean financial times."
The number of children served by the Children's Advocacy Center
increases monthly. However, the long lasting, positive impact
of the Children's Advocacy Center and Partnership is demonstrated
daily.
The Challenge Grant was given to MEOC in honor of the retirement of
past MEOC Executive Director Marilyn Pace Maxwell.
"This opportunity for MEOC's Children's Advocacy Center is huge and
will make the difference in the numbers of children we can serve and
in the types of assistance we can offer," Maxwell said. "This
matching gift could not have come at a more needed time and is a
gift that we absolutely must be successful in matching. We
have been shown a way to keep the Children's Advocacy Center
operating and we must embrace it wholeheartedly and
enthusiastically."
MEOC has designated the months of December 2012 and January 2013 to
focus on fundraising for this wonderful opportunity.
If you would like to support the Children's Advocacy Center in this
way, please make checks payable to MEOC and send to MEOC CAC, PO Box
888, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219. Please put "CAC Challenge
Grant" on your check or envelope.
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