Marilyn Murray, Director of Communications at Love146, estimated that the money from this grant will cover roughly three years of operations, and will help the organization to supplement and fill in for government-funded programming.
She stressed the importance of having both individual and government funding — individual donor support, averaging around $25 per gift, helps to fund incentives and activities for youth.
“[The grant] seems like it’s such a huge award, but it’s coming in a place where we had a gap in funding, and it’s going to be spread across three different years,” Murray said. “Having private donors means that you can journey with a youth, and they don’t have a services cliff, and that you can fill in gaps that exist around [government funding] and have an ongoing relationship.”