Community Foundation Spring Grants

Jun 02, 2021

A total of $232,000 was granted to 25 local charities for a variety of projects – large and small – but all designed to have big impact and enhance the quality of life in our community.

The grants cover all the Community Foundation’s fields of interest, which include: Arts & Culture, Children’s Mental Health, Community Development, Education & Literacy, Environment, Heritage Preservation, Health & Social Services, Recreation and Youth. Projects range from meeting immediate needs caused by pandemic, to leveraging technology to better meet needs now and in the future, to investing in longer term systemic change and projects that aim to increase access, diversity, and inclusion. Projects from this granting round will directly benefit over 10,000 people, with thousands more effected indirectly.

“These granting decisions continue to provide local agencies in our community with a lifeline through the pandemic,” says Julie Burch, Grants Committee Chair for the Community Foundation.

Funding for semi-annual grants comes from the income produced by the Foundation’s endowment funds, which have been established and built by local donors. They are “the gifts that that keeps on giving”, commented Burch about where the funding comes from.

The Community Foundation, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, invites all local charities to apply to its competitive grants program twice a year. The next application deadline is September 15, 2021.

For more details about the Foundation’s Community Grants Program and the funded projects, visit their website at www.cfka.org.