High Point Community Foundation recently awarded $557,500 in Community Impact Grants to 23 area nonprofit organizations.
The grants are given to specific critical-needs projects that address and make a significant impact in education, food security, homelessness, youth development and more.
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Getting Out and Staying Out, co-founded by Tony Smith of the VSA Consulting Group, works to reduce recidivism rate among men at Rikers Island, New York City. The recidivism rate significantly dropped from 60-plus percent to under 20 percent, with more than a thousand men over a span of eight years.