FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kate Cyrul
Wednesday, September 27,
2006 (202)
225-3661
DeLauro Announces
Federal Funding for Empower
“This
funding will greatly increase access to youth services in
“This
grant enables us to build upon the successes of the New Haven Non-Profit
Academy grant previously received from Health and Human Services.
Furthermore, this initiative provides Empower New Haven and
our partners the opportunity to foster tighter-knit collaborations
amongst youth serving agencies with the end goal in mind of better
serving the youth of our city. Given
the societal youth crisis which surrounds us nationwide, we look forward to
successfully investing these precious dollars strategically in our youth
serving agencies capacity building with the consequent positive
outcomes,” Althea Marshall Richardson, President/CEO , Empower New Haven.
For
more information on Empower New Haven, please visit: http://www.empowernewhaven.org/.
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