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Butler Snow Foundation Donates Funds to Area Organizations

Jackson -- The Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada Foundation recently approved grants totaling $40,000 to organizations in the Jackson, Gulfport and Memphis, Tenn. areas.  Foundation donations for 2007 were focused on the education and physical health of school-aged children and their families.

Contributions on the Gulf Coast were made to Memorial Hospital at Gulfport Foundation, Inc.’s Long Beach School Clinic Project, an initiative to build a clinic to meet the healthcare needs of students in the Long Beach School District.  Funds donated by Butler Snow will be used to purchase equipment and supplies for the clinic that will provide comprehensive healthcare to the area’s students.

Jackson area contributions were made to the Neighborhood Christian Centers of Jackson, Inc., an organization that provides after-school tutoring programs and summer camps to underprivileged students in the Metro Jackson region.  The firm’s donations are flagged to contribute to the purchase of a 25-passenger bus to provide transportation for educational and recreational trips.

The Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association’s Les Passees Center for Children and Families serves the community through its many offerings, including the Housing Opportunities Program and Life Skills Institute.  The inner-city Memphis organization will use this year’s contributions toward the cost of renovations to the second floor of the Center, which will enable them to move in additional employees dealing with transitional housing for the area’s homeless.

Additional contributions to the Memphis area were made to the Rotary Club of Memphis East Foundaton’s Gift of Life project, an initiative in conjunction with Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center.  An international program begun in the 1970s, it is dedicated to providing life-saving heart surgery to children from foreign countries that lack the medical resources within the country to provide such services.   

“Delivering the Foundation’s contributions each year is one of the most enjoyable things any of us does,” said Foundation Chair and Butler Snow Attorney Tommy Williams.  “Our only regret is that we cannot make grants to every deserving organization.”

The Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada Foundation was established in 1997 by a generous gift from a client of the law firm of the same name.  The Foundation selects a worthy cause or social services organization in the area and uses the Foundation’s funds to help make a difference.  Since its inception, the Foundation has supported organizations such as the Mississippi Episcopal AIDS Committee, Hands-on-Memphis and the Boys & Girls Club of the Gulf Coast.

Photos from the grant donations are below:

Les Passees Center for Children and Families

 Neighborhood Christian Centers of Jackson, Inc.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport Foundation, Inc.’s Long Beach School Clinic Project

Rotary Club of Memphis East Foundaton’s Gift of Life project