City of Muskogee Foundation board had sanctioned $ 240,000 grants to nine Summer Camps for the benefit of the campers. The 2013 amount surpasses by almost twenty percent from 2012 where $200,000 were awarded by the board.
- The major share went to the Muskogee Public Schools of $ 100,000, for its ‘Summer Pride.’
- Camp Grey Squirrel will get $10,000, a camp for children with autism spectrum disorders,
- Eastern Oklahoma Health Care Coalition’s Health Career Summer Camps $14,000, for students pursuing health care education and related careers,
- Muskogee Public Library’s Learn Create Share program gets $11,186.
- Night Hoops program at the Martin Luther King Center gets $33,700.
- The Muskogee Parks and Recreation Department’s Youth Volunteer Corps gets, $18,307.
- St. Paul United Methodist Church’s Project Transformation gets, $13,500.
- Students Taking a New Direction Inc., gets, $20,000.
- This year’s new comer is Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma that will receive $20,000 for its Colors of Summer program, which “seeks to combat the lack (of) role models and mentors” for girls interested in science, math and other technologies.
The Foundation is a nonprofit corporation formed in 2008 by the city to develop, support and promote programs designed to improve the quality of life in Muskogee. The nine member committee of the board include two city councilors, the mayor and city manager.
