Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Announces Community Endowment Grantees totaling $ 141,300 in awards

Twice a year, the CACF Community Endowment awards funding through a competitive grant cycle. On March 3, 2008 the CACF Governing Board approved the following grants totaling $141,300 in support for non-profits in the CACF service area:

African American Teaching Fellows of Charlottesville-Albemarle: $5,000 to recruit and provide financial and programmatic support to African American college students who will become effective teachers in the local public schools upon obtaining their teaching credentials.

Albemarle County Public Schools: $5,000 to support the Families in Crisis program that provides resources to children and their homeless families within the Albemarle County Public School system.

Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP): $10,000 to support the Emergency Home Repair Program that performs urgent repair services for low-income homeowners throughout Albemarle County.

Arts Center In Orange: $3,000 to support outreach arts activities for the underserved in the rural Orange community.

Boys & Girls Club of Charlottesville/Albemarle: $5,000 to support the expansion of the Southwood unit of the Boys & Girls Club at the Southwood Mobile Home Park.

Central Virginia Health Services (Health & Wellness Center of Louisa): $5,000 to complete construction on Phase 1 of a comprehensive, non-profit primary care practice in the Town of Louisa that will offer a full range of family practice services to low-income Louisa families.

Children, Youth & Family Services (CYFS): $5,000 to support the Play Partners program that provides early literacy activities for low-income children.

Community Mediation Center of Charlottesville: $8,000 for a training program for volunteers to mediate cases referred by the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Greene and Fluvanna Counties.

Elk Hill: $5,000 to provide scholarships for young women to attend a new residential program in Fluvanna for “at-risk” young women.

Fluvanna County Habitat for Humanity: $9,000 to help build four homes for qualifying families as part of a rural conservation cluster subdivision.

Fluvanna Meals on Wheels: $5,000 to help launch a new chapter of Meals on Wheels that will provide daily meals for clients in Fluvanna County.

Foothills Child Advocacy Center: $8,000 to provide an on-site forensic interviewer and case manager for child abuse investigations in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

Greene Ruritans: $5,000 to provide water and power to the Greene County Community Park.

Manteo-Yogaville Emergency Response Squad: $10,000 to purchase a vehicle to respond to first aid calls for residents of Buckingham County.

Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA): $7,500 to provide operating funds for the Family Economic Security Program that provides low-income people a path out of poverty by building assets through the Earned Income Tax Credit, Financial Education and Individual Development Accounts.

Nelson County Community Development Foundation: $9,000 to help establish a free dental clinic in Nelson County.

People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM): $5,000 to purchase computer equipment, shelter equipment and supplies in support of its mission to provide shelter and assistance to homeless men, women and children in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

Rivanna Conservation Society: $5,000 to protect and enhance the Rivanna River Watershed through river monitoring, clean-up and education.

Rx Partnership: $3,500 to help fund a new database for the Rx Partnership program that provides medication at no cost to free clinics in Virginia including two in the CACF service area. 20.

Shelter for Help in Emergency: $5,000 to complete the construction of a new emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their minor children.

The Women’s Initiative: $5,000 to support a new counseling program to provide mental health services for low-income women including individual counseling, workshops, support groups, and outreach programs in the community.

UVa Children’s Hospital: $2,500 to support the Home Visit Program to allow young physicians to travel to their patient’s homes to provide care.

Volunteer Farm: $1,000 to upgrade the Farm’s irrigation system so that it can continue to provide fresh produce to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.

Westminster Child Care Center: $1,800 to provide tuition to low-income kindergarten-bound children to attend an educational summer camp.

Youth Motorsports Academy: $8,000 to support the Central Virginia Youthbuild – a leadership and career development program for high school dropouts ages 16-24 in Charlottesville and Albemarle.

The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is a permanent endowment dedicated to improving the quality of life in Charlottesville and the Counties of Albemarle, Greene, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Buckingham, and Nelson. With assets of $70 million, CACF makes grants of more than $5 million annually through its Community Endowment and its many donor-advised funds. Since its inception in 1967, the Community Foundation has made grants of more than $26 million to hundreds of nonprofit agencies.