Lutheran Social Services, Inc.

Betsy Guthrie (l) and Frank Newton (r)
Frank Newton, president and chief executive officer of the Beaumont Foundation of America, presents a $426,000 grant check to Betsy Guthrie, LSS senior vice president of management and program support, foster care and domestic and international adoption.

GRANTS

Coastal Bend Community Foundation, $4,000 to send children with special medical and other needs to summer camp.

St. Luke’s Health Ministries, $30,000 for the construction of a new athletic field at New Life Children’s Center in Canyon Lake, Texas.

Triumphant Love Lutheran Church, Austin, $2,500 for an accessibility project for foster children with special needs.




 


Foundation awards $426,000
to LSS children's ministries

The Beaumont Foundation of America (BFA) for the second year in a row has awarded Lutheran Social Services a grant to provide school clothing for more than 1,400 children served by LSS throughout Texas. The $426,000 grant will benefit all children in LSS foster homes, as well as children served at three LSS residential treatment centers and a children’s emergency shelter. The grant will provide a clothing stipend of up to $300 per child for 2008 to help defray the cost of clothing needs.

“The reason behind this gift is that foster children rarely get a chance to be involved in the selection of their own new clothing, which is a vital part of a child’s identity,” said Cecilia Blanford, grant director for LSS. “It is the foundation’s wish to offer these children the opportunity to participate in something so many of us take for granted.”

Established in 2001, the Beaumont Foundation of America was originally designed to support the use of technology to enhance and advance the lives of underserved individuals and populations. Its new mission is a continuation of its overall vision of helping those who are underserved throughout the country.

LSS cares for more than 1,400 children daily in its foster care program, including 180 children in residential treatment centers and up to 60 children at an emergency shelter.

“We are once again deeply grateful to the directors and staff of the Beaumont Foundation for this generous grant,” said LSS President and Chief Executive Officer Kurt Senske. “So much of our work centers on rebuilding these children’s lives toward normalcy. The opportunity for both foster children and their foster families to simply go shopping and make good choices about how they present themselves to the world is a major step towards a regular, healthy life.”

Beaumont Foundation of America

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