Salina AM Chapter of AMBUCS,
sponsored by Dex Umekubo, Pro-
ducer’s XL, received a grant in the
amount of $10,000 for their Service
Expansion. AMBUCS currently serves
by providing disabled riders with a
safe and secure AmTryke, providing
for the construction of residential
wheelchair ramps, and by providing
funds to families with children with
disabilities for doctor visits and re-
lated medical costs. Project serves
clients within a 100 mile radius of
Salina, Kansas, and provided funds
will help them expand statewide.
Warming House Youth Center, spon-
sored by Steven J. Brown, Brown,
Brown & Gomberg, received a grant
in the amount of $10,000 for their
Supportive Counseling Services.
This community service program al-
lows any first and second time law
offending teens to complete their
service hours through the center.
Grant funds mean more teens are
counseled and guided through their
sentences, as well as providing drug
and alcohol abuse counseling, and
wellness programs.
Jester & Pharley Phund, sponsored
by Lynne Rosenberg Kidd, Innova-
tive Solutions Insurance Services,
received a grant in the amount of
$6,000 for their Reading Makes a
Difference program. This organiza-
tion produces a children’s book with
the intended audience of children
ill with cancer. They ship the book
and jester doll to more than 15,000
sick children every year. The literacy
program centered around this book
inspires underprivileged elementary
students to love to read and to show
compassion for sick children.
Jamie’s Dream Team, sponsored by
Ryan Moad, Underwriters Brokerage
Services, received a grant in the
amount of $6,000 for their Annual
Dream Fulfillment. Requested funds
Children’s Cancer Network
(The Chittenden’s)
will support their program of dream
fulfillment for seriously ill children
via their Christmas to Remember-
ance holiday party.
Rainbows for Kids (The Marketing Alliance)
Children’s Cancer Network, spon-
sored by Dave Chittenden, The Chit-
tendens, received a grant in the
amount of $5,000 for their Spotlight
on Siblings of Childhood Cancer War-
riors. Families of “cancer warriors”
are often as deeply affected, though
in different ways. Program funding
will provide experiences for siblings
that would not normally be in finan-
cial reach.
I think you’d agree that all of
these programs fit well within
the stated mission of the NAILBA
Charitable Foundation—these
are all organizations “with great
purpose and little economic
resources that serve to enhance
the quality of life for those less
fortunate, with a special em-
phasis on children.” Thank you
to the Committee that worked
so hard to select them, and
to our members and corporate
partners, who, as sponsors and
donors, make it possible to do
what we do.
Downtown Ministries (The Milner Agency)
ALAN PROTZEL
PRESIDENT,
NAILBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
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