The Escambia Children’s Trust approved the second year of 16 Out-of-School Time (OST) grants, almost $4.7 million:
Boys & Girls Club of the Emerald Coast $630,088
Central Gulf Coast Freedom Schools $215,045
Chain Reaction $192,975
Children’s Home Society $249,906
City of Pensacola Parks and Recreation $540,041
CMB Visions Unlimited $396,817
Covenant Care $204,163
Dixon School of Arts and Sciences $295,000
Epps Christian Center $221,450
James B. Washington Education & Sports $295,000
Omega Lamplighters $156,975
Pensacola Children’s Chorus $203,390
Pensacola Little Theatre $85,000
Pensacola MESS Hall $59,924
SALT Ministry (Sisters Anointed to Lead Together) $12,629
YMCA of NW Florida $906,561
Year 2 Total Funding Amount: $4,664,964
The board voted down a recommendation to reimburse The Children’s Theater for overspending its budget and denied Urban Development Center’s request to lower its YouthFirst Century program to age 5. They accepted the staff recommendations to not renew grants for those two providers.
The board was told all 16 renewed programs were in compliance with their contracts.
The staff is working on new standardized metrics that will be used in Year Two to measure the outcome of the grants. This year, the contracts let the providers determine their metrics.
Contracts will be amended to include the standardized metric after the board approves them.
