InnerAct Alliance Proud Recipient of an Empower Polk Grant from GiveWell Community Foundation

 

InnerAct Alliance and our coalition partners, StandUP Polk and UthMpact, are proud recipients of an Empower Polk grant from The GiveWell Community Foundation. The GiveWell Community Foundation's Empower Polk grant cycle aims to assist local nonprofits to better fulfill their mission and continue supporting the community. 

Statistics continue to show that prevention education helps young people learn the facts and skills needed to act responsibly and avoid becoming the next substance abuse statistic. Funding from the Empower Polk grant will allow InnerAct Alliance to initiate exciting new avenues of communication to inform about available science-based preveniton programs and create an educational podcast to share important substance abuse facts, social norms, and topical issues that face the Lakeland and Polk County community. 

"As a licensed substance abuse prevention provider in the state of Florida, InnerAct Alliance is committed to impacting our community in a positive way. We are extremely grateful for the support of the GiveWell Community Foundation to assist with our agency's "Telling the Story" project to further prevention efforts and better inform and educate our community," said Angie Ellison, executive director of InnerAct Alliance.

InnerAct Alliance, formerly the Drug Prevention Resource Center, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and licensed provider for substance abuse prevention in Polk, Hardee, and Highlands counties since 1985. The agency’s mission is to reduce the abuse and underage use of harmful substances along with involvement in other risky behaviors through: Community Awareness and Involvement; Prevention Education; Economic Support; and Leadership Development. Efforts to serve the community include providing science-based education programs to nearly 15,000 students in 70 elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as outreach to over 100,000 citizens via informative presentations, a premier youth leadership program, teen-driven social norms marketing, and family-oriented awareness events including the Annual Red Ribbon Campaign and motivational rallies for fifth grade students. 

For additional information, please contact InnerAct Alliance’s Executive Director, Angie Ellison, at (863) 802-0777. To learn more about the GiveWell Community Foundation, please visit their website at https://www.givecf.org/