High Country Region
Grant Highlight
The Bright Future Foundation, Avon ($25,000)
The Bright Future Foundation, founded as The Women’s Resource Center in 1984, began as a resource center for women and children in need. Since its inception, the organization has grown to include a 24-hour hotline, transitional housing, outreach services, community education, and youth advocacy. The organization operates under the principle that intervention and education can help people discover positive alternatives in lives of community members, and they have the resources, opportunity, and obligation to implement positive change.
The Council's grant went toward a self-sufficiency initiative to aid in the transition toward self-sufficiency through
- life skills and self-sufficiency education and training
- financial literacy education
- light of hope job skill training and enrichment
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