The Center on Halsted is getting a $1 million grant from the Alphawood Foundation, Center officials announced Nov. 26. The grant is slated to be used as operations money to fund and expand the Center’s programs for GLBT seniors, youths, adults and families.

“Alphawood’s grant of $1 million will help us provide even more programming to meet the explosion in demand since our move to the new facility this past June,” said Center Executive Director Modesto Tico Valle. “Our participants and clients have doubled in all of our programs and we expect those numbers to continue to rise.”

The Alphawood Foundation was founded in 1992 as the WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation and funds a range of non-profit causes.

“The size and scope of this grant are unusual for our foundation,” said Laura Samson, Alphawood’s executive director. “Yet we strongly believe in the value and the potential of Center on Halsted. The successful completion of its extraordinary new facility is just the beginning for this long-needed community resource.”

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