The Chandler City Council recently approved a total allocation of $2.083 million to more than a dozen local nonprofits.

The approval, made as a result of council OKing its June 27 consent agenda, ends a process that included a late spring work session. That council work session is where city staff detailed the need for both a significant dollar increase for the 2024-25 grant cycle and changes to the evaluation and decision process.

The funds were authorized under the guidance and recommendations from Chandler’s Housing and Human Services Commission, the city said in a news release. They were identified by priorities from a previous community needs assessment.

Also, more than $25,000 in contributions made by Chandler residents through utility bill donations are part of the allocated amount.

Descriptions of each organization’s program that received funding are available online at “Chandler Human Services Funds.”

Here are this year’s program recipients, listed alphabetically by organization name:

• A New Leaf – La Mesita Family Shelter: $55,248.27

• About Care, Inc. – Empowering Independent Living: $50,000

• About Care, Inc. – Senior Community Wellness Collaboration: $30,000

• Aid to Adoption of Special Kids – AASK Mentoring Program: $10,000

• Arizona Burn Foundation – Early Childhood Burn Prevention & Fire Safety Education Program: $20,000

• Assistance League of East Valley: $13,000

• AZCEND – Food Bank: $65,000

• AZCEND – Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program – IHELP: $100,000

• AZCEND – Neighborhood Assistance Services: $130,000

• AZCEND – Senior Nutrition Program: $150,000

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona – Chandler Mentoring for At-Risk Youth: $15,000

• Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Inc. – Boys & Girls Clubs - Chandler Compadres Branch: $55,000

• Chandler CARE Center Children’s Medical and Dental Clinic: $174,676.50

• Child Crisis Arizona – Emergency Care for Foster Children and Youth: $50,000

• Child Crisis Arizona – FANS Locker Room for Children, Youth, and Families in Need: $35,000

• Civitan Foundation, Inc. – Civitan Commons Transportation and Food Distribution: $10,000

• Dignity Health Foundation East Valley - Chandler Children’s Dental Clinic: $190,045

• East Valley Jewish Community Center – Jbox: Seniors in Need: $61,247.49

• East Valley JCC – Low Income Family Scholarships: $68,000

• East Valley JCC – Youth in Crisis: $25,000

• EMPACT-Suicide Prevention Center - Senior Peer Counseling Program: $12,770

• For Our City-Chandler – Operation Back to School: $25,000

• HonorHealth – HonorHealth Cancer Care Patient Transportation: $13,200

• ICAN: Improving Chandler’s Area Neighborhoods – ICAN Positive Youth Development: $100,000

• Junior Achievement of Arizona – Providing the JA BizTown Program to Primarily Low-Income City of Chandler Students: $10,789.01

• Live Love – Live Love Youth & Teen Program Expansion: $20,000

• Matthew’s Crossing – Emergency Food Assistance Programs: $40,000

• Mesa United Way – Chandler VITA Program: $20,000

• Midwest Food Bank - Arizona Division – Emergency Food Box Program: $66,800

• Neighbors Who Care, Inc. – Aging in Place: $20,000

• notMYkid, Inc. – Prevention & Peer Support: $23,000

• Oakwood Creative Care, Inc. – Day Club Program for Low-Income Chandler Seniors Experiencing Physical and Cognitive Impairments: $45,000

• One Small Step, Inc. – Clothes Cabin: $25,000

• Pups And Warriors Side by Side – Service Dog Training: $10,000

• Read On Chandler – Story School: $15,000

• Recreation and Athletics for Individuals with Disabilities – Payment Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities: $15,000

• Resurrection Street Ministry, Inc. – Driving Our Chandler Veterans 2024: $10,000

• Resurrection Street Ministry, Inc. – Feeding Our Chandler Neighbors 2024: $30,000

• Save the Family Foundation of Arizona - Rapid Rehousing for Chandler Families: $120,000

• Semicolon Society – Semicolon Society Community Hope Project: $15,000

• St. Joseph the Worker – Employment Without Barriers Program: $10,000

• The Salvation Army – Chandler Corps Client Choice Food Pantry: $20,000

• The Salvation Army – Housing Stability Assistance: $50,000

• United Food Bank – The Emergency Food Assistance Program Chandler: $10,000

• Valley of the Sun YMCA – Chandler Family YMCA Chandler i-Learn Program: $20,000

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