September 9, 2010   <<  Back to News and Events   Knight Foundation awards grant to Safe Families Initiative Safe Families Initiative Receives $5,000 Grant  (Murrells Inlet, SC ) Georgetown County’s Safe Families Initiative has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Waccamaw Community Foundation administers the Foundation’s donor-advised fund, a fund that distributes more than $50,000 every year to nonprofits throughout the Waccamaw Region. The promising Initiative is seeking to create a family justice center in Georgetown County. Similar centers around the country provide a single resource for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse. For more information regarding the Initiative, please call 843.546.1815 or visit www.safefamiliesSC.org  Gillian Roy, president of the League of Women Voters and a board member of the Safe Families Initiative, said the fund will be used to purchase educational materials for the Strategic Planning Session scheduled for March 31 and April 1 in the Georgetown County Sheriff’s office. “Family violence survivors and their children should not have to go from agency to agency to get the help they need,” said Roy. “The collaboration of all parties will help with the duplication of efforts and will be an important resource for victims of abuse and neglect.”   “This money will be used to facilitate the strategic planning process,” Says Jonathan Kresken, President of the WCF. “A strong start will ultimately mean that children are protected, batterers are held accountable and families are able to heal and thrive.”  The Waccamaw Community Foundation is a local non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the development of a community tradition of philanthropy by making it easy, personally satisfying, and effective for individuals, families, corporations and businesses to establish permanent and temporary funds in support of the organizations and causes they care most about.   Additional information about The Waccamaw Community Foundation is available at www.waccamawcf.org.  Phone calls are also welcome at 843.357.GIVE (4483).     RELATED ITEMS There are no Related Items at this time.