The Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in CACF Announces Grantees totaling $ 222,000
Twice a year, the BAMAWorks Fund in CACF awards gifts through a competitive grant cycle. On December 7, 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.
1. Albemarle County Schools (Monticello High School) - $3,000 for school supplies, books, field trips, glasses, and clothing to financially needy Monticello High School students.
2. Albemarle County Schools (Stony Point Elementary School) - $1,000 stipend to a professional songwriter who will teach music literary to students in Pre-K classes.
3. Albemarle Pipes and Drums Band, Inc. - $1,500 for musical instruments for the volunteer Celtic band at various community functions.
4. Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries - $5,000 to support a dance instruction curriculum to enhance the 5th-8th grade tutoring program at Walker Upper Elementary and Buford Middle School.
5. Charlottesville Area Dental Access - $10,000 to support the Community Children’s Dental Center that provides full service pediatric dental care for low-income children in Central Virginia.
6. Charlottesville City Public Schools (Adult Education Program) - $2,000 to help fund a one-day Festival of Cultures in Lee Park in the spring of 2010.
7. Charlottesville Jazz Society - $3,000 to fund educational program by which jazz artists teach local students.
8. Charlottesville Police Department Foundation - $10,000 to support police/community activities, including the Cops4Kids program that provides positive engagement with disadvantaged youth.
9. Children, Youth & Family Services - $8,000 to support the STAR Kids program that teaches positive social and decision-making skills to low-income preschoolers.
10. Covesville Child Development Center - $5,000 for scholarships to financially disadvantaged preschoolers from Albemarle and Nelson counties.
11. Fluvanna County Habitat for Humanity - $10,000 to help build one of five Earthcraft-certified homes for deserving Fluvanna County residents as a part of a new rural conservation cluster subdivision design.
12. Fluvanna County Schools (Fluvanna County High School) - $1,500 to help fund the Fluvanna County High School Blue and Gold monthly newspaper.
13. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville - $10,000 to help complete critical electrical work at Southwood Mobile Park.
14. Hope Foundation, Inc. - $10,000 to support the Hope Community Center’s afterschool program for elementary and middle school children in the Tenth and Page neighborhood.
15. International Rescue Committee - $10,000 to create an emergency fund for medical and dental assistance to Charlottesville refugees whose health insurance programs do not meet their health needs.
16. James River Association - $5,000 to support education efforts of the Upper James Riverkeeper program.
17. Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA) - $10,000 to fund the Hope House transitional housing facility for homeless families.
18. Meals on Wheels of Charlottesville-Albemarle - $9,000 to provide hot meals for seven homebound disabled clients for one year.
19. North Branch School - $5,000 for the Naomi Scherr Memorial Scholarship to provide tuition assistance to needy students attending the North Branch School in Nelson County.
20. People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM ) - $8,000 to fund the salary of the Guest Advocate position to assist shelter guests by creating a relationship of trust and to provide information about jobs, housing, and identification documents.
21. Piedmont CASA, Inc .- $5,000 to support a part-time teen specialist position to increase the effectiveness of advocacy for teens (13 to18) who are victims of abuse and neglect.
22. Quest Institute, Inc. - $2,500 for the Books Behind Bars program that collects and provides books without charge to incarcerated individuals in Virginia prisons.
23. QuickStart Tennis of Central Virginia - $5,000 to introduce children throughout the CACF service area to the game of tennis.
24. Second Street Gallery - $2,000 to support Family Art Day and the Public Art Project which provide art education for the Charlottesville community.
25. Senior Center, Inc. - $5,000 to support arts and humanities programs to enrich the lives of area seniors.
26. Service Dogs of Virginia - $7,000 to provide a Service Dog Scholarship to support advanced training and placement of one diabetic alert service dog.
27. Spay/Neuter All Pets, Inc. (SNAP) - $2,500 to provide low-cost spay/neuter services to low-income residents of Louisa County.
28. Special Olympics Virginia - $7,500 to support a tennis tournament for individuals with intellectual disabilities in Charlottesville with participants from across the country.
29. Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless - $8,000 for supplies for the community kitchen at “The Haven at First and Market” (formerly known as the First Street Church Project) that provides daily meals and a food service job training program.
30. Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission/Jefferson Area Disability Services Board (DSB) - $3,500 to develop a home modification network for people with disabilities in the planning district.
31. Town of Mineral - $6,000 to modernize and expand Walton Park utilizing a plan by the Virginia Tech Design Group to attract more performing arts activities to Louisa County.
32. University Montessori School - $3,000 to complete construction of an outdoor classroom for environmental education classes.
33. UVA Rector and Visitors (UVA Children’s Hospital) - $3,000 to provide helmets to third grade children in Charlottesville and Albemarle, to be distributed through the Bike Helmet program.
34. Urban Vision - $8,000 to help start an incentive program for Friendship Court families with the goal to make families more self-sufficient.
35. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy - $3,000 for travel, lodging and honoraria for 10 authors/storytellers/illustrators to give presentations fostering the love of reading and literacy skills to local schools, youth and community organizations during the Virginia Festival of the Book March 17-21, 2010.
36. Virginia Organization of Consumers Asserting Leadership (VOCAL) - $5,000 to support Firewalkers: Changing the Story of Mental Health, a book and outreach project to educate the Charlottesville community about mental illness and to improve mental health services.
37. Wildlife Center of Virginia - $8,000 for environmental outreach programs for area elementary schools.
38. Wintergreen Adaptive Sports - $8,000 to support an ongoing sports program for wounded servicemen and women.
39. Writer House, Inc. - $3,000 for scholarship funds for disadvantaged youth to develop creative writing skills.