Child Abuse Network raises $5 million for expansion project

The Child Abuse Network in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has raised more than $5 million in support of a facility expansion project, the Tulsa World reports.

Lead pledges include $1 million from the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation and $750,000 each from Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and the Morningcrest Healthcare Foundation. Additional donors include Ruth Nelson, the Mervin Bovaird Foundation, and the Hardesty Family Foundation; CAN’s thirty board members have collectively pledged more than half a million dollars.

“The level of support that CAN has received from private foundations and generous individuals has really fueled and sustained our work this year,” CAN chief executive Maura Guten said in a statement. “During a time when the severity of the child abuse and neglect we see has reached unprecedented levels, it means so much to know that our local philanthropists see our work, recognize its importance and stand with us to stop the hurt and start the healing.”

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