OneAZ Community Foundation Selects Phoenix Charities For Grants

PHOENIX, AZ — A trio of Phoenix-based nonprofits are among the 14 groups selected for OneAZ Community Foundation's Together is Better grants.

The three groups that received funding were A New Leaf, Feeding Phoenix Farm and Generation Justice.

The $290,000 Together is Better grant funding was handed out to groups that helped build a strong foundation for Arizona's economic stability, including children's health groups, food banks, financial education groups, veterans' interest groups and local youth programs, the company said.

A New Leaf is a Phoenix-based financial education organization that offers financial empowerment services. It plans on using its grant funding to support the group's existing programs.

Feeding Phoenix Farm is a food bank that supports the Phoenix area that will use its grant funding to build chicken coops to provide eggs for the community.

Generation Justice is a children's health program that works to support the child protection system in Arizona and end violence against children.

Here's a list of the 14 Arizona nonprofits that will receive grant funding through this year's program:

• A New Leaf, Phoenix
• Bread of Life Missions, Camp Verde
• Feeding Phoenix Farm, Phoenix
• Flagstaff Family Food Center, Flagstaff
• People Who Care, Prescott
• Reach for the Stars, Tucson
• Habitat for Humanity Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
• High Country Humane, Flagstaff
• Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County, Prescott
• Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship, Scottsdale
• Deep Sea Valkyries, Higley
• Generation Justice, Phoenix
• I am You 360, Tucson
• Southern Arizona Book Heroes, Tucson