General Grants: February 2012
Alzheimer’s Association
$32,270
To increase awareness and caregiver support in the Tri-Cities, with an expanded emphasis on Dinwiddie and Prince George counties.
Appomattox Regional Library System
$175,000
Towards continued operating support for Southside Community Partners.
Better Business Bureau Foundation of VA, Inc.
$4,520
For continued support of the Senior Fraud Program in the Foundation’s service area.
Crisis Assistance Response Emergency Shelter, Inc. (CARES)
$70,000
For continued general operating support.
Dinwiddie Department of Social Services
$25,770
For continuation of the USDA Commodities Distribution program.
Equal Justice America
$18,000
Towards two summer 2012 law student fellowships and a continued post-graduate fellowship at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Petersburg.
Greater Richmond SCAN
$35,000
For the Child Advocacy Center project in the Foundation’s service area.
Hopewell Food Pantry
$30,000
For general operating support.
Hopewell-Prince George Healthy Families
$50,000
For continuation of the Intensive Home Visitation, Assessment and Screening program.
Ladies Memorial Association of Petersburg
$20,000
For the Petersburg Regional Educational Program’s 2012 teacher’s institute, “History Underfoot: Community Educators Expedition of Discovery.”
Legacy Media Institute
$25,000
To continue its program with Virginia State University’s Mass Communications Department to enable students to learn responsible film making.
MDC, Inc.
$20,000
Towards a feasibility study for The Benefits Bank Project in Virginia.
One Voice Chorus, Inc.
$15,000
To support “EXODUS…out of bondage,” a multi-faceted project to engage a diverse community in a musical commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Emancipation.
Petersburg Library Foundation, Inc.
$62,000
For continued general operating support.
REDC Community Capital Group, Inc.
$50,000
For continued support of small business development activities in Hopewell, Petersburg and Sussex.
Science Museum of Virginia Foundation
$34,000
For the Petersburg Out of School Time STEM Program.
Shepherd’s Center of Chesterfield
$7,000
For the Senior Outreach Project.
Smart Beginnings/Hopewell-Prince George
$50,000
For continuation of the Smart Beginnings Early Childhood Initiative.
Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project, Inc.
$125,000
To support the planning process to design and implement the Central Virginia Regional Network for Child Success, which will explore opportunities to initiate a regional approach to better address some of the educational needs in the Tri-Cities area.
Virginia Association for Competitive Swimming (VACS)
$3,900
For continuation of the Make a Splash learn-to-swim program.
Virginia’s Gateway Region
$225,000
To support the “G2 – Driving Regional Growth, Embracing a Global Future initiative,” a five-year strategy to advance economic development across the Tri-Cities area.