Dave Matthews Band Bama Works Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Announces Grantees totaling $246,090.
Twice a year, the BAMA Works Fund awards funding through a competitive grant cycle. On June 1, 2009 the CACF Governing Board approved the following Bama Works grants as recommended by Dave Matthews Band in support of non-profits in the Charlottesville area.
African American Teaching Fellows of Charlottesville-Albemarle (AATF): $4,000 for the AATF program that provides recruitment, mentoring and financial support to African Americans who are working to become licensed teachers in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County public schools.
AIDS/HIV Services Group (ASG): $5,000 to stock the food pantry for ASG clients.
Albemarle County Adult Education Program: $5,000 for the Hispanic Mother’s Club program that provides English tutoring, language enrichment and learning activities for mother and child.
Albemarle County Public Schools (Scottsville Elementary School): $3,000 to add a section to the playground for the pre-school program.
Albemarle County Public Schools (Woodbrook Elementary School): $4,000 to engage students in the “Nature Path to Environmental Learning” school project that will build a walking trail while teaching students about the environment.
Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP): $6,000 for the Emergency Home Repair Program that provides minor emergency repairs for impoverished households in Albemarle County.
7. Albemarle-Charlottesville Theatre Company, Inc (Play On!): $5,000 to underwrite a ticket subsidy program for Play On! Productions.
Alliance for Interfaith Ministries (AIM): $7,000 to provide emergency assistance to families threatened with homelessness or loss of utilities.
Arts Center in Orange: $5,000 to provide art instruction and music performance for the underserved in Orange County.
Camp Holiday Trails: $5,000 for the campership fund to provide financial assistance to Charlottesville area youth with chronic illnesses.
Caring for Creatures Foundation: $4,000 to provide the community with training, education, and referral information to prevent animal abuse and neglect.
Central Virginia Health Services, Inc.: $12,500 to assist in the purchase of a new digital x-ray machine for a community health center located in Buckingham County.
Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families: $5,000 to provide stipends for Family Support Mentors to accompany parents/guardians of children with mental health needs to community service-planning meetings and for family advocates to participate in local policy and program development meetings.
Charlottesville Community Scholarship Program: $5,000 to provide scholarships to assist low and moderate income city residents and employees of the city and its schools who want to continue their education after high school.
Charlottesville Day School: $5,000 to provide scholarships for minority students to continue and increase the diversity within Charlottesville Day School.
Charlottesville Symphony Society: $2,000 for an orchestral program designed to address challenges youth face, including conflict resolution, abuse, and adversity.
City of Charlottesville (First Tee of Charlottesville): $5,000 to implement the First Tee program that introduces the game of golf with age appropriate instruction and equipment in all sixteen Albemarle County elementary schools’ physical education classes.
Crescent Theatre Company (Kid Pan Alley): $5,000 to teach songwriting to students at 13 schools in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, and Louisa.
Fluvanna Meals on Wheels: $8,000 to provide meal delivery to the elderly, disabled, and homebound of Fluvanna County.
Foothills Child Advocacy Center: $5,000 to expand forensic interview services to victims of child abuse who live in areas surrounding Charlottesville/Albemarle, which presently do not have access to other Child Advocacy Centers.
Four County Players: $1,700 to purchase and install a new sound system for the Four County Players theatre.
Green County Public Schools (William Monroe Middle School): $1,000 to partner with McGuffey artist Ninni Baeckstrom to design and construct a sculpture celebrating contemporary rural experience.
Hospice of the Piedmont: $5,000 to support the Transitions pre-hospice program that provides volunteer support and case management services to individuals with serious illnesses.
I Have a Dream Foundation of Charlottesville: $5,000 to support a full-time Youth Services Coordinator position to oversee individual/family support services and community service learning.
Ivy Creek Foundation: $5,000 to support environmental education units for local 4th and 5th graders in Charlottesville and Albemarle school systems.
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library: $3,000 to purchase a collection of jazz cd’s for public circulation at the Gordon Avenue Library.
Kids Lift Foundation: $2,500 to provide books for needy area children (infants to grade 8) to be distributed in conjunction with Toy Lift.
Louisa County Historical Society (Sargeant Museum): $2,000 to fund student interns to learn to digitize and archive documents, photos, and other pieces of the Sargeant Museum’s collection.
Madison House: $5,000 to support Madison House programs that provide over 3,000 student volunteers weekly to 85 sites in the Charlottesville area.
Millennium Group: $5,000 to upgrade the computer technology lab at the Nelson Heritage Community Center.
Montessori School of Charlottesville: $5,000 to provide scholarships for preschool education to children unable to afford tuition.
Oakland-The Nelson County Museum of History: $3,000 to create a computer kiosk to tell the story of Hurricane Camille and its effects on Nelson County.
OAR-Jefferson Area Community Corrections: $6,000 to support a restorative justice program for juvenile offenders referred by local courts and agencies.
Piedmont Council of the Arts for “From Inside Out”: $10,000 to teach nine art classes at prisons in Central Virginia.
Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC): $5,000 to support the Buy Fresh, Buy Local Program.
Piedmont Housing Alliance: $5,000 to support the FDIC approved Money Smart Financial Education Program, which teaches financial education to teens and families at risk.
Piedmont Regional Education Program (Ivy Creek School): $3,000 to provide enrichment classes for students with emotional disturbances.
Planned Parenthood Health Systems: $5,000 to support Teens Taking Action, a peer reproductive health education program.
Quality Community Council: $7,000 to support the farm manager of QCC Farms, an urban agriculture project.
Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services Board: $4,000 to serve low-income Orange County seniors to attend the new Regional Adult Day Healthcare Program.
Rapidan Better Housing Corporation: $7,500 to support the Emergency Home Repair Program to support the disabled in Orange County.
Reading Window School: $3,000 to fund an early childhood literacy program for disadvantaged children in Louisa County and surrounding areas.
Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youth (ROSMY): $5,000 to support the ROSMY Blue Ridge Chapter that provides support services to sexual minority youth in the Charlottesville area.
Rivanna Conservation Society: $5,000 to support the Youth Watershed Education Program.
Rockfish Valley Foundation: $3,000 to complete interpretation of the local geology and nature history at the Camille Memorial Trail Head kiosk along the Rockfish Valley Trail System.
Sexual Assault Resource Agency (SARA): $6,000 to expand a sexual violence prevention program for young men who are incarcerated at the Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention Center.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts: $5,000 to support fellowships for Charlottesville area artists, writers, and composers.
Westminster Child Care Center: $4,390 to fund two scholarships for kindergarten bound low income children to attend the twelve week hands-on interactive summer camp.
WHTJ Charlottesville (Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corp): $6,000 to partially fund the locally produced talk show Charlottesville Inside-Out.
Youth Motorsport Academy (Youth Learning Academy): $7,500 to fund the Garden of Learning project designed and created by students of YLA’s Design + Build + Live + Green program.