General Grants: Jun – 2010

Alzheimer’s Association

$32,265
To expand programs and services for persons with dementia and their caregivers in Dinwiddie and Prince George counties.

American Heart Association

$57,750
To expand the Search Your Heart program to ten additional community sites in Petersburg, Sussex, and Dinwiddie as well as to add the CPR Anytime training to the sites in the Foundation’s service area.

Art on Wheels, NFP

$8,600
For the Art Enrichment for Senior Citizens program.

The Better Business Bureau Foundation

$10,000
For continued support of the Senior Fraud Program in the Foundation’s service area.

Boy Scouts of America ‑ Heart of Virginia Council

$25,000
For continued support of the Scoutreach program in the Foundation’s service area.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond

$60,000
For continued support of the five core program areas at the Petersburg and Hopewell units.

Central Virginia Health Services

$250,000
Toward the cost of relocation of the Petersburg Health Care Alliance.

Central Virginia Health Services

$496,400
To provide primary care access for patients at the Appomattox Area Health and Wellness Center.

Chesterfield CASA, Inc

$50,000
For continued funding of the training and supervision of volunteer child advocates in the Foundation’s service area.

Colonial Heights Food Pantry, Inc.

$59,000
For general operating support.

Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation

$20,000
For continuation of the Ready To Learn Book Initiative in the Foundation’s service area.

Drive-To‑Work

$35,000
For continued support of the Tri-Cities Project, which assists low-income and previously incarcerated persons with restoring their driving privileges so they can drive to work and hold a job.

ElderHomes Corporation

$65,000
For the Tri-Cities Renew Crew program to add a staff person, purchase tools and equipment, rebrand the service truck and purchase materials to better serve the clients in the Foundation’s service area.

FeedMore, Inc.

$110,000
For the Feeding Children, Families and Seniors program in the Tri-Cities.

Gamaliel Foundation

$97,705
To continue with the creation of a congregation-based community organization in Petersburg.

Girl Scout Commonwealth Council of Virginia, Inc.

$22,000
For Project Reading, Math and Science (R.M.S.)-Girls Go Tech in Hopewell and Petersburg schools.

Goodwill of Central Virginia

$48,000
To support the Petersburg Community Employment Center.

Homeward

$40,000
For the development of a ten-year plan to prevent and end homelessness in the Petersburg area.

Hopewell Public Schools Foundation

$15,000
Towards the JOBS program, including program staff wages, student summer employment wages, and supplies.

The Legacy Media Institute

$50,000
For general operating support.

Optima Family Care

$33,255
For the Girls Community Basketball Program.

Rebuilding Together * Petersburg

$25,000
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.

The Shepherd’s Center of Chesterfield

$11,600
For continued support of the Adventures in Learning program for adults ages 50 and above.

South Centre Corridors Resource Conservation

$20,000 (over 3 years)
For the Buy Fresh, Buy Local campaign, designed to improve the economic vitality of local farmers, build greater awareness of the local food system, improve the local consumer infrastructure, and encourage institutional buying of local foods.

Supreme Court of Virginia

$53,825
For planning and implementing a Pilot Mental Health Court Project in Petersburg General District Court.

Sussex County Public Schools

$22,595
For continued support of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Summer Enrichment Program.