General Grants: June 2014

Alzheimer’s Association

$25,000
Continued funding to increase awareness and caregiver support in the Tri-Cities area.

Battersea Foundation

$125,000
To support structural repairs to historic Battersea villa.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond

$60,000
For services at the Petersburg club.

Central Virginia Health Services

$347,000
Continued support for primary care access at the Appomattox Area Health and Wellness Center.

Chesterfield CASA, Inc.

$20,000
Continued funding for the training and supervision of volunteer child advocates in the Foundation’s service area.

Chesterfield Colonial Heights Alliance for Social Ministry (CCHASM)

$25,000
For continued general operating support.

City of Petersburg Department of Planning and Community Development

$135,236.50
Continued support towards restoration work at Centre Hill mansion.

CultureWorks

$25,000
To provide the organization’s services with an enhanced focus on arts and culture organizations in the Tri-Cities area.

Downtown Churches United, Inc.

$56,000
For general operating support.

Equal Justice America

$8,000
Towards two summer 2014 law student fellowships at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Petersburg.

Family Lifeline

$50,000
For continuation of the Petersburg Early Childhood Development Initiative.

Goodwill of Central Virginia

$40,000
For continuation of the Career to Occupation: A College Alternative program, designed to provide career pathways for seniors in Petersburg City Public Schools.

GReat Aspirations Scholarship Programs, Inc. (GRASP)

$10,000
Towards the In-School Advising Program at Petersburg High School.

Historic Petersburg Foundation, Inc.

$83,450
To stabilize and repair four historic homes in the Poplar Lawn area of Petersburg.

Hopewell Food Pantry

$30,000
For continued general operating support.

Hopewell-Prince George Healthy Families

$28,051
For continuation of the Intensive Home Visitation, Assessment and Screening program.

Horizon Health Services, Inc.

$15,000
To support the Waverly Medical Center Facility Improvements project.

National Alliance on Mental Illness of Central Virginia (NAMI)

$7,418
Continued funding for the District 19 Mental Health Education and Support project.

Petersburg Area Art League

$15,000
Continued support for an education coordinator as well as program expansion to include instruction, programming and outreach for at-risk tweens and teens.

Petersburg Health Department

$192,000
For continued support of the HealthSpace Teen Center.

Preservation Virginia

$26,250
For the Petersburg Historic District Assessment Initiative.

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$25,000
To support the efforts of the Renew Crew Volunteer Program to provide accessibility and home safety improvements for clients in need of those services.

Second Presbyterian Church

$25,000
A Sacred Landmarks Grant to repair brownstone at three entrance doors of the church building in Petersburg.

Smart Beginnings Hopewell-Prince George

$50,000
To support collaboration between Smart Beginnings Hopewell-Prince George and Crater Smart Beginnings in implementing programs to streamline administration, staff effectiveness and cost efficiencies for the two programs.

Southern Dominion Health System, Inc.

$100,000
For the Dinwiddie Integrated Behavioral /Medical Health and Substance Abuse Program.

Southern Initiative of the Algebra Project, Inc.

$50,000
Towards the tutoring, mentoring and leadership development of students in math through the VSU Upward Bound Program.

Southside Community Partners

$60,000
Continued support for the Nonprofit Resource Center and ConnectVA.

Southside Health Education Foundation

$60,000
To support the Southside Healthcare Workforce Development Summit, Southside Health Careers Exploring Program, and Southside Community Medical Education Series.

St. John’s Episcopal Church

$25,000
A Sacred Landmarks Grant towards the Remembrance and Renewing-Restoring, Protecting and Preserving Historic St. John’s project in Hopewell.

St. Joseph’s Villa

$57,000
Continued support of staff salaries and benefits as well as special assistance funding for the Rapid Re-housing program at the Tri-Cities Housing Resource Center.

Sussex County Department of Social Services

$33,000
For the Sussex County Call for Health Education Awareness for Senior Citizens project.

Virginia LISC

$98,500
For continuation of the Petersburg Revitalization Initiative, including ongoing capacity-building of the community development sector in Petersburg; facilitation of partnerships among developers; the launching of a Financial Opportunity Center; and ensuring the implementation of several efforts that it is supporting in Petersburg region.

Virginia’s Gateway Region

$275,000
To continue the “G2 – Driving Regional Growth, Embracing a Global Future” initiative, a five-year strategy to advance economic development across the Tri-Cities area.

Willcox Watershed Conservancy

$50,000
To support the second phase of the Lee Park Interpretive Trail project.

YMCA of Greater Richmond

$65,359
Continued support of youth programming at the Petersburg and Chester family YMCAs.