Mesothelioma and Asbestos

The Community Development Support Association is trying to raise $2.9 million for Smart Start Beginning Childhood Development Center, a nonprofit learning center for Enid, Oklahoma’s underprivileged kids. Two recent donations totaling $700K will go a extended way toward meeting that goal. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a Brownfields Cleanup Grant of $200,000 to remove asbestos as well as lead-based paint from the building slated to house the center. The other $500,000 comes from the Inasmuch Foundation, an organization that issues grants for education, health as well as human services, the arts, historic preservation, strengthening the nonprofit sector as well as preservation of the common environment. The center will focus on beginning education for pre-kindergarten age kids.

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