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Kids Making It Awarded Landfall Foundation Grant

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Wilmington, NC – At its Grant Awards Ceremony yesterday, November 3rd, 2022, the Landfall Foundation generously awarded Kids Making It a grant in the amount of $7,460. This grant is for Kids Making It’s new After-school Academic Mentorship program that is designed to help students identify their strengths, interests, and skills, and it will tailor simple lesson plans to help achieve long term success in their life post-high school.

The idea for this program came about after Kids Making It learned that over 25% of its after school students were struggling significantly with their school work – something worsened by COVID. Program leaders anticipate this project will provide dramatic benefits for the students served as they succeed more in school, grow more confident, and improve life after high school.

Kids Making It is actively seeking interested volunteers for this program and is hiring a part-time coordinator to lead this program.

 

Kids Making It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to prevent juvenile delinquency through woodworking and by teaching valuable vocational, entrepreneurial and life skills. Their goal is for the youth they serve to stay in school, stay out of trouble, and transition successfully into either the workforce or college.

 

Now located at 617 Castle Street, Kids Making It and its staff and volunteers dutifully utilize 9,300 square feet of space that includes a gift shop, large woodshop, a wide array of woodworking tools and machines, two engravers, a CNC router, a break room, sanding room, finishing room, custom order shop, and their skilled trades shop with loading bay, classroom, and offices.

For more information about Kids Making It, arrange a tour at 617 Castle Street, Wilmington, NC 28401. You can call 910-763-6001, visit www.kidsmakingit.org, and find it on social media (@KidsMakingIt).

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