Fast Facts

$29 can provide one family with a Home-Away-From-Home for the night.

$50 can provide an Occupational, Physical, or Speech Therapy session for a child with a developmental disability.

$40 can provide a day of job skills training to a teenager with disabilities transitioning from school to work

$15 can provide a child with a disability after school child care for a day.

For $1,469/year a hot noon meal, meeting 1/3 of an elderly person’s dietary allowance, can be delivered to a frail, homebound senior 5 days a week all year. ($28.25/week)

For $101/week a Senior Companion can provide respite care and companionship for frail elders for 20/hours a week.

For $427/week a frail elder can receive supervised adult day health care in a protective environment for an 8 hour day. Cost includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, nursing supervision, structured activities, field trips, etc.

For $28/week a senior who is 60 or older can attend any one of ten meal sites throughout Escambia County and receive a hot noon time meal, socialize with friends, and participate in group activities or occasional field trips.

$45.00/$55.00 will pay the transport fee to move one greyhound from Florida to another group in a non-racing state to be adopted.

$70.00 provides 1 hour flight training for SAR mission crewmembers.

$150 will board one greyhound for one month while it awaits placement in a foster home.

$40.00 provides 1 orientation ride for CAP Cadets, R.O.T.C. students or teachers.

$20 provides 7 families with laundry supplies for 3 weeks.

$203 provides 7 families with a Home-Away-From-Home for 1 night.

$24 provides 8 children with a stuffed animal each.

$210.00 provides 1 month secure parking for CAP aircraft and supplies.

$25 will pay for a free pregnancy test.

$25.50 provides 3 dinners for 7 families.

$250 can purchase 1,000 educational pamphlets.

$26.25 provides 7 families with toilet paper for 6 weeks.

$29 provides 1 family with a Home-Away-From-Home for the night.

$40 a month will cover the cost of the Reproductive Health Line in which residents of the Pensacola area can call and get answers to their questions about reproductive health.

$150.00 provides annual cost of camera supplies used in damage assessment photo reconnaissance.

$125.00 will provide all pre-adoption medical care for one non-complicated greyhound (broken hocks, advanced age and illnesses run up those vet bills).

$50 a month will support 80 accurate, current messages on reproductive health to the Greater Pensacola area 24/7.

$500 can pay for an educational workshop.

$20.00 provides a leash, collar and ID tag for one greyhound.

$12.00/month provides heartworm preventative and flea control for one greyhound.

$205 will serve 1 girl for a year.

$255 will send 1 girl to resident camp for 1 week.

$25 per month can provide school supplies, uniforms and school fees for 20 children.

$40 per month can feed 4 families for a month.

$45 per month can provide 21 prescriptions for individuals for a month.

$10 could be used to help buy food products and provide groceries for 4 low income families in our service area.

$20 could help pay the water bill for 1 low income household.

$50 could help build a wheelchair ramp for 1 handicapped home in our service area.

$10 per month will provide suicide prevention/intervention for 6 persons contemplating suicide.

$20 per month will provide referral assistance to 17 persons needing food, shelter, healthcare or other critical needs.

$30 a month will build a wheelchair ramp a year to allow an elderly or handicapped person to leave their home.

$10 per month will allow 2 children to have a Merry Christmas.

$40 per month will provide utility assistance for 12 families.

$50 a month can provide 30 days of safe shelter for a victim of domestic violence with 2 children.

$15 a month can provide 2 healthy meals a day for 60 days for children staying in a domestic violence shelter.

$30 a month can provide 50 hours of counseling for children who have witnessed domestic violence in their home.

$60 a month can provide prevention education on dating violence and date rape to 1000 high school students.

$31.40 can provide meals for 20 homeless people.

$90 a month will feed a child in group-home care for a year.

$50 a month will clothe a child for a year.

$40 a month will provide birthday gifts for 12 children.

$25 a month will provide haircuts for a whole group home for one year.

$11 a month will provide one day’s cost for a special child in group home care.

$7 a month will provide Christmas for a group home child.

$1 per week provides Diabetes risk tests to 1000 individuals.

$1 per week provides one month’s discounted medication for 5 Kidney patients.

$2 per week sponsors a teenager who wants to stop smoking.

$2.50 per pay period, the price of a Starbucks Latte, provides a patient with a platelet count.

$3 per week provides nine Braille books for a Preschool class.

About $5 per pay period will provide patient with a chest X-ray.

$7 per pay period, the price of popcorn and soda at the movies, will provide an hour of physical therapy for a patient.

About $20 per week will provide one day of chemotherapy administered intravenously to a leukemia patient.

$20 per week helps one school teach children to manage their asthma by supporting Open Airways for Schools.

$25 per pay period will provide the chance for a patient to get a CT scan.

$25 will buy diapers for one month for the infant of a Teen Mom in the Teen Services Program.

$50 will buy school supplies for a teen in the Teen Services Program.

$75 will provide counseling session for an uninsured child in the counseling programs.

$200 will halp pay medical bills for birth mom in adoption programs.

$1,000 will help provide a loving adoptive home for a special needs child.

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$2.80 a day will support a match relationship for one year.

$3 a week would provide a monthly group activity matches.

For the price of a cup of coffee a day ($1.37) for one year you could help purchase an item on an agency's wish list.

$50 per month will provide nutritious snacks to 25 youth attending Afterschool.

$35 per month provides transportation to 15 youth attending Afterschool.

CFC dollars helpe purchase computers that provide free Internet access to military travelers in the Airport Welcome Center.

CFC dollars help send comfort items to troops currently serving in Iraq.

CFC dollars help the USO offer support for families of deployed troops by contributing to Family Fun Days.

CFC dollars help purchase Holiday Gift Certificates for deserving military families during the Thanksgiving/Christmas season. $5,000 during the 2005 holiday season.

CFC dollars help provide refreshments and recreation type activities to more than 20,000 military personnel and their families each year in the Airport Welcome Center.

$40 a month helps a foster mother buy diapers for an infant placed in her care.

$60 a month provides free counseling sessions for a victim of sexual violence or rape.

$35 a month provides therapeutic group activities for seniors with emotional and behavioral problems.

$60 a month provides a job coach to help workers with disabilities keep their job.

$50 provides new shoes and a jacket for a homeless client in the Crisis Unit or Detox program.

$40 provides swim/water safety lessons for one child.

$35 provides for one child in youth sports like soccer or basketball.

Youth programs focus upon 4 core values of Honesty, Respect, Caring, Responsibility.

90% of youth responded that camp programs helped them use words, not hitting, to resolve conflicts.

81% of youth reported that, because of camp programs, they have a greater understanding of different cultures, religions and people with different disabilities.

94% of youth because of camp programs, said that they can now make their community a better place.

Prevention versus treatment: the cost of an average youth served is $700.00 per year versus $3,000.00 for a youth placed in a residential setting.

Camp programs provides quality programs that build real skills and provide real-life adventures.

$10 provides one children’s grief therapy workbook.

$50 sends one bereaved child to Camp Monarch (bereavement one-day camp.)

$13 covers expenses for one person to attend “Coping with the Holidays” (public event designed by social workers to help people with the loss of a loved one during the holidays.)

$16 allows one adult to attend one session of grief support group (expense is $100/person for a 6-8 week support group.)