Karen Kasich
announces donations to Ohio Children Charities
COLUMBUS – Ohio First Lady Karen Waldbillig Kasich today announced that
charities across the state committed to the health and wellness of
Ohio’s children will receive more than $182,000 in funds remaining from
the Kasich-Taylor New Day inauguration committee.
“Ohio wouldn’t be the wonderful place it is without the passion of
those who work hard every day to support the health and welfare of some
of Ohio’s most at-risk children,” said First Lady Karen W. Kasich. “I
am thankful for all they do and honored to be able to support their
important work.”
The New Day committee is making donations to:
• After-School All-Stars (ASAS) Ohio: $55,000. Mrs. Kasich is a
statewide ambassador for ASAS Ohio, part of a nationwide organization
providing students with after-school academic support, mentoring, and
fitness activities in a safe environment.
• Live Healthy Appalachia: $55,000. The Athens-based organization will
use its donation to expand its Live Healthy Kids program, a nutrition-
and cooking-curriculum used in several southeast Ohio classrooms to
teach students about healthy eating and get hands-on experience
preparing and cooking healthy foods.
• Local Matters: $22,728. Local Matters teaches Columbus-area children
and adults about healthy food, how to grow it, how to cook it, and how
to access it affordably. The organization will use its donation to
increase programming at eight Columbus Recreation and Parks Department
locations that currently provide summer meals and conduct pilot
programs at new sites where no food education is currently offered.
• School-Year Weekend Backpack Programs: $50,000 to five
organizations. At the end of every school week, thousands of Ohio
students routinely experience chronic weekend hunger. To combat this
issue, backpacks filled with non-perishable meals are sent home on
Fridays with at-risk students, helping ensure they return to class on
Mondays nourished and ready to learn. In recognition of the many
backpack programs across the state, five organizations have been
selected to each receive $10,000 to maintain or grow their school-year
backpack program.
• Ashtabula County Educational Services/Building Bridges (Ashtabula
County)
• Edgewood Ministerial Association (Butler County)
• Corporation for Ohio Appalachian Development/RSVP of the Ohio Valley
(Jackson County)
• Marion City Schools/Mid Ohio Foodbank (Marion County)
• West Ohio Foodbank (Allen County)
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