9 Local Groups Awarded Grants
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A program that helps single parents on welfare move into the work force and an organization that finds housing for low-income residents are two of nine local grant recipients.
Representatives of the Ventura County Community Foundation’s Women’s Legacy Fund handed out $100,000 in grants at a ceremony hosted recently by The Times at Cal Lutheran University.
Fillmore Unified School District’s Fillmore Area Center for Transition Services received the largest grant--$20,000.
Many Mansions of Thousand Oaks, which finds housing, received $18,000.
An $11,500 grant went to Ventura’s Housing Authority, and Conejo Valley Senior Concerns received $12,500. Grants of $10,000 each went to the Camarillo Hospice, the county’s Alzheimer’s organization and Ventura County Jewish Family Services.
The Salvation Army of Oxnard was awarded $6,000, and Soroptimist International of Oxnard’s Career Closet, which provides job-seekers with attire to wear for interviews, received $2,000.
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