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Community Enhancement Program Grant Nonprofit Program Summaries KidWorks CDC -New KidWorks Center and After School Program Expansion Rank: 1 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 2 Objective 2a Score: 87.8% Funding Request: $ 125,000 KidWorks will open of a new satellite site in the Santa Anita neighborhood as part of a new City of Santa Ana sponsored affordable housing development. It will also significantly expand the after school and enrichment programming the main center. 1) New Santa Anita KidWorks Center: services include STEAM lessons, homework help, tutoring, college and career readiness for parents and students including college tours and financial aid assistance, a community fair, and a beautification day; 2) Double KidWorks Main Center: support for programming for the significant and much needed expansion of the main KidWorks site would double current enrollment. TKO Youth Foundation -TKO BOXING CLUB Rank: 2 Strategic Plan Alignment: *Goal 2 Objective 2b Score: 86.4% Funding Request: $ 20,000 TKO provides a low-cost, after-school program for at -risk youths as an alternative to gang membership. To challenge these youth to achieve their potential both academically and athletically. Delhi Center - Cultural Arts Program Rank: 3 Strategic Plan Alignment: *Goal 5 Objective 5c Score: 86.2% Funding Request: $ 125,000 The Cultural Arts Program provides a way to achieve cultural equity, access and inclusion in cultural arts by providing children and youth with visual and performing arts classes including dance, music, art, theater, photography, videography, and mural art. Classes are provided during non -school hours, including after school, evenings, and summer. The program also provides an avenue for young people to practice their artistic skills through on-the-job training and leadership development. RAYA (Rise Above Your Ambitions) Foundation - Rise Above Sports Program Rank: 4 Strategic Plan Alignment: *Goal 2 Objective 2b Score: 83.2% Funding Request: $ 21,261 The RAYA Foundation will offer the Rise Above Sports program. This program will consist of the following: 1) 8 week teen (14-18) basketball league, 2) 7 week boys (9-14) basketball league, 3) 7 week girls (9-14) basketball league, 4) 2 basketball skill devekopment/lifeskills clinics, and 5) 1 youth track meet for youth 12 -14 years. Child Creativity Lab -The City as Play Rank: 5 Strategic Plan Alignment: Goal 5 Objective 4b Score: 82.6% Funding Request: $ 45,000 The City as Play is an innovative public -engagement and community -visioning program that uses art -making as its medium. Participants will practice creative skills and problem -solving in community design workshops that help them become active participants in improving their neighborhoods. Facilitators will host 25 community design workshops that will be located in community gathering spots of divested neighborhoods in coordination with local groups to empower residents to re -think their neighborhood through a hands-on, purposeful, and fun design activity well- known for bringing people with little knowledge of how their city works, deep into the process. Pg. 1