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January 3, 2022Crossroads Center for Children Receives $10,000 Giving Tuesday Grant from The Rite Aid Foundation
The Rite Aid Foundation has generously awarded Crossroads Center for Children a $10,000 grant as part of its 2021 Giving Tuesday grant award. The grant will help children learn skills which are essential for success in life, including communication, speech and social skills, motor skills, behavioral and emotional skills, on top of general conceptual, academic and cultural skills.
Crossroads Center for Children is honored to be a Rite Aid Kid Cents charity, one of the 500 organizations throughout the country receiving such a grant. This is The Rite Aid Foundation’s 6th year of support for Crossroads, over those years contributing $55,000 to fuel the work and mission of preparing children with developmental special needs for life success. “The past two years have been especially difficult for us,” says Kelly young, Executive Director. “The help provided by The Rite Aid Foundation has been crucial in fueling our operations and allowing us to continue serving children.”
Crossroads Center for Children is one of nearly 500 partner charities across the country receiving a Giving Tuesday grant from The Rite Aid Foundation. The grants are funded through the KidCents customer fundraising program. Rite Aid customers enrolled in KidCents can round up their purchases in-store and online. The Rite Aid Foundation reinvests the customer contributions into local charities and missions to drive community change and support disadvantaged and underserved communities. This year’s total foundation grant allocation was $4.8 million.
“Crossroads Center for Children shares The Rite Aid Foundation’s caring commitment to creating healthier and more equitable neighborhoods,” said Matthew DeCamara, executive director of The Rite Aid Foundation, a public charity established by Rite Aid in 2001. “All of our Giving Tuesday grant recipients address the profound realities of racial inequities and health disparities through their own ways and strategies – and have done it during an unprecedented public-health crisis that has significantly interrupted normal programming, fundraising events and daily operations. We’re grateful to support their important work and uplift our neighborhoods together.”
