Gang Reduction and Youth Development Foundation

General program: in 2022 The Gryd Foundation and mayor's Gryd office continued to modify summer night lights (snl) and fall friday nights (ffn) programming to comply with covid-19 public health guidelines while responding to The related economic crisis. Because families rely on Gryd for meals, for violence prevention activities, and for summer work and The snl work experience, we set out to offer three core services during summer night lights 2022 and into The fall, plus a youth hiring component: distribution of grab-and-go bags filled with food staples and produce to promote healthy nutrition and assist families facing food insecuritydue to covid-19 and economic crisis sports pick-up games twice per week across all sites online and on-site community engagement workshops including arts, culinary, wellness, fitness, and educational skills classes 19 youth workers were hired by The Gryd Foundation to help implement The above-noted core programming services.