General Grants: Oct – 2011

Colonial Heights Food Pantry

$50,000
For continued general operating support.

Crater District Area Agency on Aging

$30,000
Toward fuel costs, driver salaries and benefits for the agency’s medical transportation program.

Dinwiddie County Public Schools

$55,600
For “Expanding the Tiers of Possibility,” a professional development program for teachers and administrators.

District 19 Community Services Board

$55,000
For continuation of the I-Work Project to provide job coaching and stabilization services for the grantee’s consumers.

FeedMore, Inc.

$75,000
For the Feeding Children, Families and Seniors program in the Tri-Cities.

Gateway Homes, Inc.

$35,000
To continue providing comprehensive treatment programs to individuals with serious mental illness who are from the Foundation’s service area.

Historic Petersburg Foundation, Inc.

$101,000
For the Peter Jones Trading Station project.

The James House

$55,000
To support rural outreach in Dinwiddie and Prince George counties.

John Tyler Community College Foundation

$75,000
For continued support of the Career Coach Program in Petersburg City Public Schools, as well as to expand the program to Dinwiddie and Sussex County high schools.

Legal Aid Justice Center

$90,000
For continuation of the Petersburg JustChildren program.

Petersburg Sheriff’s Office

$84,628
For the Positive S.T.E.P.S. Re-entry Program, which provides pre-release/transition services to offenders by connecting them with resources and services to help them make a smoother transition into their home communities.

Rebuilding Together * Petersburg

$25,000
For continued general operating support.

Serenity, Inc.

$62,655
For continued general operating support.

Southside Virginia Emergency Crew

$70,000
Toward the purchase of a new Ford F-450 Med-Tec ambulance.

Stony Creek Volunteer Rescue Squad

$141,405
For the replacement of an ambulance/rescue unit.

Sussex County Department of Social Services

$53,000
For the Sussex County Health Education Awareness for Women and Senior Citizens Project.

Virginia State University

$100,000
To launch the Building a Better World – Community Services Project.