General Grants: Oct – 2010

Appomattox Regional Library System

$250,000
For continued support of the Southside Community Partners Nonprofit Resource Center.

Crater Community Hospice

$24,000
For three Support Service programs, including complimentary therapies, the Volunteer Interfaith Program, and the Bereavement Care Program.

CultureWorks

$25,000
To include the Petersburg region in its Cultural Shareholders project, designed to bring together the arts and culture community through an annual meeting, information sharing, and advocacy efforts.

Dinwiddie County Department of Comprehensive Services

$93,400
For the Crater Region Family Engagement Project, which utilizes the Family Engagement Model to address some of the difficult problems faced by at-risk children and their families.

Dinwiddie County Department of Social Services

$14,214
For the USDA Commodity Distribution Project.

Equal Justice America, Inc.

$8,000
Towards two summer 2011 law student fellowships at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Petersburg.

Gateway Homes, Inc.

$35,000
For continued support of services to clients from the Foundation’s service area.

Hopewell City Public Schools

$50,000
For continuation of the Smart Beginnings Early Childhood Initiative.

The James House Intervention/Prevention Services, Inc.

$45,000
For continued general operating support.

Legal Aid Justice Center

$108,000
For continuation of the Petersburg JustChildren program.

Saint Paul’s College

$20,600
For the expansion of its Service Learning Program, a community outreach program that integrates community service with instruction to teach civic responsibility.

The Salvation Army, Petersburg Corps

$42,500
For continuation of the Community Education Center Project, which provides comprehensive educational classes in computer training and career development to put clients on a path to self-sufficiency.

Serenity

$62,655
For continued general operating support.

Southside Virginia Emergency Crew

$120,000
Toward the purchase of a new Ford F-450 Med-Tec ambulance.

Swift Creek Mill Theatre

$19,500
For continued support of the group sales program.

Sycamore Rouge

$50,000
For general operating support.