Recipients of Funding

The Children's Advocates Resource Endowment (C.A.R.E.) is a nonprofit organization serving the needs of Kern County's children since 1999. We raise money to provide grants to local charities that specialize in serving local children. 40% of proceeds from our events are used to fund grants while remaining 60% is placed into an endowment fund to meet the needs of children for many years to come.

100% of the money we raise is invested in children. Our community board of directors are all non-paid volunteers. Our board reviews every grant application to make sure organizations receiving funds apply 100% of the grant to the direct benefit of children and never on salaries or other administrative expenses. We base our grants on the needs of the community as a whole and the number of children to be served by each grant.

Through partnerships with companies such as Wal-Mart. We stretch our dollars even further by having our funds matched dollar per dollar to benefit even more children.

We have delivered a truckload of high chairs for the Homeless Shelter for use in the dining hall and to provide to families transitioning to a permanent home. We have also delivered truckloads of child safety seats for distribution to families that cannot afford them.

We provide a wrapped Christmas present to every single child at the homeless shelter each year.

We built state-of-the are interview room approved by the California Judicial Council to interview abused children in the warm, friendly environment for use in court proceedings.

We have built computer labs, provided homework tables, and sponsored many specialized camps for impaired children, disabled children and children who have recently lost a parent who attend special bereavement camps.

These are very small examples of the miracles made possible through your sponsorship and support. Since our inception we have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars making Kern County a better place for our children.

Partial list of past grants:

• Kinship Support Services - Movie Passes/Snack bar
  Vouchers
  
• Optimal Hospice Foundation - Annual Sponsorship of
  Bereavement Camp
  
• Assistance League of Bakersfield - Annual Purchase of
  Back-to-School Backpacks
  
• National Adoption Day - Annual Sponsorship of New
  Families Party
  
• Bakersfield Community Christmas - $5K in Christmas presents for families in need
  
• Community Action Partnership - $4K for money in food bank to serve children
  
• CSUB Children's Center - Purchase of new computer system
  for their computer lab
  
• CASA of Kern County - $2K to sustain operations
  
• Society for Disabled Children - Annual sponsorship of specialized camp for disabled kids
  
• Kern County Museum - Enhancements to Lori Brock
  Children's Museum
  
• Lamont Child Development - Purchase of classroom goods,
  playground toys and other goods
  
• Sheriff's Activities League - 15 Passenger Van for youth
  transportation
  
• Police Activities League - Built Soccer Field with 300 uniforms and equipment
  
• Police Activities League - Provided new P.A. system
  
• Epilepsy Society of Kern - New child safety seats for children
  
• Bakersfield Homeless Shelter - Provided high chairs for use at shelter and to give away to families transitioning out
  
• Bakersfield Chambers of Commerce - Sustain Youth Leadership Program
  
• Adopt-A-Child Ministry - Christmas Presents for Christmas Program
  
• H.E.A.R.T.S Connection - Sustain operations for disabled
  youth
  
• Jamison's Children's Center - Built new state-of-the-art
  interview room with A/V Equipment approved by the Kern Court system to be used as evidence in court
  
• National Camps for the Blind - Funded specialized camp for sight impaired youth
• Shop-With-A-Cop - Annual funding of Christmas shopping program for disadvantaged youth in at-risk areas
  
• Junior Achievement - Purchased instructional classroom materials to sustain program
• Girl Scouts - Purchased materials for health and fitness program