Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Announces Community Endowment Grants totaling $ 140,000
Twice a year, the CACF Community Endowment awards funding through a competitive grant cycle. The Community Endowment grantmaking program focuses on current community needs as defined in CACF’s mission: human services, education, arts and culture, environment, health and community enrichment. On September 14, 2009, the CACF Governing Board approved the following grants totaling $140,000 in support for non-profits in the CACF service area:
1. Albemarle County Public Schools: $7,500 for the Families in Crisis program to provide part-time Mentor/Lead Teacher for homeless students and their families.
2. Alliance for Interfaith Ministries (AIM): $5,000 to provide emergency assistance to families threatened with homelessness, loss of power or fuel, or other temporary financial crises.
3. Boys & Girls Club of Charlottesville/Albemarle: $5,000 to support the “Project Learn” after –school mentoring and tutoring program.
4. Center for Nonprofit Excellence: $7,000 to support capacity-building through a technology initiative that will diversify and increase nonprofit access to CNE tools, resources and trainings.
5. Charlottesville Community Design Center: $3,000 to support the Design Marathon which provides free design services to nonprofit organizations.
6. Charlottesville Free Clinic: $10,000 to support the re-modeling portions of the Health Department building to increase medical, dental and administrative space.
7. Charlottesville Tennis Patrons Association: $1,700 to support the JumpStart QuickStart Tennis Initiative in Fluvanna, Buckingham and Orange Counties.
8. Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA: $2,500 to support low-cost spay/neuter surgery for the animals of all qualifying low-income residents.
9. Covesville Child Development Center: $5,000 to provide scholarship funds for children from Albemarle and Nelson counties
10. Fluvanna County Habitat for Humanity: $11,320 to support the building of five Earthcraft certified homes in partnership with qualifying families as part of a rural conservation cluster subdivision.
11. Fluvanna County Public Schools: $3,880 to support the Families Learning Together family literacy program.
12. Fluvanna Meals on Wheels: $7,100 to help provide meal delivery and social contact each weekday to elderly, disabled or homebound citizens of Fluvanna County.
13. Foothills Child Advocacy Center: $5,000 to support the funding of a program coordinator who will provide on-site forensic interviews and case management for child abuse investigations.
14. Hope Foundation: $3,000 to help provide direct services for the homeless at Hope Community Center.
15. International Rescue Committee: $10,000 to help provide immigration services by accredited representatives of the Board of Immigration Appeals to refugees and immigrants in Central Virginia.
16. James River Association: $2,000 to support JRA’s educational and river restoration activities in Charlottesville and surrounding counties.
17. Jefferson Area Board for Aging: $7,000 to help provide health services for residents of the Westhaven community.
18. Live Arts: $3,000 to support the Performers Exchange Project’s original theatre performance Our American Ann Sisters.
19. Mediation Center of Charlottesville: $3,000 to support working with local police departments to provide mediation to help citizens resolve disputes peacefully.
20. Paramount Theatre of Charlottesville: $4,500 to help provide ticket scholarships to local community school children to attend live educational performances.
21. Piedmont Virginia Community College: $15,000 to help renovate the former Charlottesville-Albemarle Visitors bureau to house PVCC’s workforce programs.
22. Spay/Neuter All Pets, Inc.: $2,000 to support a volunteer driven spay/neuter program in Louisa.
23. Suzanne Hope Fund: $1,000 to help provide low income cancer patients with emergency short term financial help during the time of diagnosis and treatment.
24. Urban Vision: $7,500 to support an after-school tutoring program working with children from Friendship Court.
25. University of Virginia (Office of Sponsored Programs): $5,000 to support a collaborative project between the Virginia Center for Digital History and Public Housing Association of Residents to educate Charlottesville residents on the history of Vinegar Hill.
26. University of Virginia Women’s Center: $3,000 to support the Young Women Leaders Program to help at-risk girls who have participated in the Young Women Leaders Program transition to Charlottesville High School.
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The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is a permanent endowment dedicated to improving the quality of life in Charlottesville and the surrounding Counties of Albemarle, Greene, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Buckingham, and Nelson. CACF makes grants of more than $4 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 $30 million to hundreds of nonprofit agencies. www.cacfonline.org