Exciting news!! The GALA Foundation is the proud recipient of a NASCAR Speedway Children’s Charities grant. We will be attending the ceremony this coming Monday evening where we will be notified of the exact amount of the grant. A great thank you goes out to Anamita Gall, our Fundraising Coordinator,m for making this happen!
The money that the Foundation receives from this grant will be used to support a new initiative, the Knowing Who You Are project. Unfortunately, a disproportionate number of the children in the Guardian ad Litem program are of minority descent. Often they are placed in homes with different backgrounds than their own, and this can cause them to become confused about their ethnicity. It is important for them to develop a healthy image of themselves and their racial identity, and the GALA Foundation will be purchasing books that promote a healthy racial identity and explore issues of multiculturalism. We hope that this will foster healthy identity development in our foster children, and also provide an additional way for our volunteers to connect with their child-clients. Stay tuned for more information on this exciting new project!!!
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