Video Series Highlights 30 Donor-Funded Programs Serving Area Children This Past Summer

  • Monday, October 18, 2021
Bridge Chattanooga
Bridge Chattanooga

The Bethlehem Center, a 101 year old community center in Alton Park, is releasing a video series celebrating its Community Connections Summer Grants Program. The program allowed for the funding of 30 summer programs for children that focused on the arts, character development and productive out of school time during the summer of 2021.

“Being able to support 30 local organizations this summer through the Community Connections Summer Grants Program has been such a blessing,” said Josh R. Singh, director of Strategic Operations at the Bethlehem Center. “Visiting these faith-based, arts-focused programs and seeing the children playing, learning and growing has been one of the highlights of our summer.”

The Bethlehem Center is debuting two videos per week on its Facebook and Instagram pages.

Viewers will get an inside look on youth activities during this past summer. Published videos can also be viewed at www.thebeth.org.

Those to be honored for their impactful youth programming include:
Alpha and Omega Outreach              Brainerd Baptist Hispanic Church,
Bridge Chattanooga                           Chattanooga Elite Basketball Program,
Chattanooga Empowerment              Chattanooga Sports Ministries,
Christ Community Church                  Girls  Inc.
Girls Stance, Inc.                                Hamilton County Coalition,
Highland Park Commons                   Iglesia Bautista de Chattanooga
Iglesia Filadelfia                                  M.V.P. Summer Program
National Coalition of 100 Black Women       
Nehemiah Project                               Net Resource Foundation,
Orchard Park SDA Church                 Outdoor Chattanooga
PEAK                                                  Quarterback Club
Reach One Teach One UCA              Red Bank Baptist Hispanic Campus
River City Company                           Smoking for Jesus
The Centenary                                    Tob Art Creating Painting
Unity Performing Arts Foundation      Wake Up Youth Foundation
Young Ladies of Power, Inc.


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