Community Foundation, George W. Jenkins Fund
help our youth with generous grant


April 8, 2009

Florida Baptist Children's Homes has received a very generous grant from the George W. Jenkins Fund Within The Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland. The "Youth Leadership and Service Program" grant is being used to help our children with employablity skills, character development, leadership traits, and other desireable characteristics; it is also helping our youth participate in community outreach projects. This grant is the result of an application that Florida Baptist Children's Homes submitted for the foundation’s 2008-2009 Impact Lakeland grant cycle.

Florida Baptist Children's Homes president Dr. Jerry Haag (left), with representatives of the Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland: Brenda Craft, who is on the foundation's board of directors, and John Fitzwater, president and CEO. In the background is one of the cottages that boys and girls live in at the Children's Homes' Lakeland campus.