Thank You to our Generous Donors!

Sara’s Garden is SO blessed by caring, generous Northwest Ohio organizations and donors! A big thank you goes out to the Ohio Elks Cerebral Palsy (CP) Fund, the Delta Eagles, the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities (DD), and the Dollar General (DG) Literacy Foundation!

Thank You to the Ohio Elks CP Fund and the Toledo-Sylvania Elks Lodge #53! The Ohio Elks CP Fund donated $13,400 for rehabilitative lifts, slings, and stretchers for our special needs students with CP and other neuromuscular disorders at our New Horizons Academy (NHA)-Springfield Campus. These lifts and slings will be used to meet the therapeutic, treatment, and independent care needs of our special needs students and Summer Skills Camp participants. Every year, Ohio Elks Lodges from across the state raise money to support organizations, which provide care, treatment, training, and rehabilitation for individuals with CP. We are so grateful to the Ohio Elks Association, the CP Fund, and the Toledo-Sylvania Elks Lodge #53 for this grant!

We are so grateful for the ongoing support from the Delta Eagles and the Ohio Auxiliary Eagles. We recently received a generous grant of $5,000 for New Horizons Academy and $5,000 for Special Grounds Coffee. These grants will be used towards the purchase of vocational training materials and equipment at our career center as we continue to provide much needed vocational experience for our students at NHA. Thank you so much Eagles! You truly are a social club that helps the community.

All of our Springfield Summer Campers want to thank the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities (DD) for its $6,000 Mini Summer Camp Grant to help support art, music, vocational, and mental health activities and social-emotional learning. The mini-grant will be used to fund the Emotional ABC’s Curriculum, art and music supplies, vocational transportation, social stories, and books. Thank you, Lucas County DD, for supporting our campers with autism and other behavioral and emotional needs!

With Dollar Generals across Northwest Ohio participating in the Summer Literacy Grant Program, Sara’s Garden is so grateful to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for supporting the development of its social-emotional library section with a $2,000 grant. The literacy focus is on meeting the educational and intervention needs of students with social-emotional needs from preschool to high school. They will be utilized for one-on-one, individualized reading intervention, small group story time activities, reading comprehension, and social storytelling.

Thank you to our very generous donors, the Ohio Elks CP Fund, the Delta Eagles, the Lucas County Board of DD, and Dollar General’s Literacy Foundation!