General Grants: October 2012

Art on Wheels, NFP

$11,500
For continuation of the Art Enrichment for Seniors Program.

Battersea Foundation

$50,000
To support the installation of underpinnings and foundation drainage in identified areas of weakness on the Battersea villa.

Better Housing Coalition

$100,000
To support continuation of the Halifax Initiative.

City of Petersburg on behalf of Petersburg Museums Foundation

$230,000
For a collaborative effort to replace the windows and repair the cornice at the Centre Hill Mansion.

Colonial Heights Food Pantry

$90,000
For continued general operating support.

Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation

$15,000
For a digital teaching program in The Cameron Foundation’s service area through the A Place of Our Own Distance Training Initiative.

Crater Community Hospice

$97,500
For general operating support.

Crater Health District

$82,400
For the Crater Chronic Disease Reduction and Health Resource Center Project, done in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the Petersburg Public Library System to provide reliable and quality health and local resource information, trained personnel to assist the clients with locating the information, and health education programs designed to address preventive lifestyle changes.

FeedMore, Inc.

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

Gateway Homes, Inc.

$35,000
For the continuation of services to clients from The Cameron Foundation’s service area.

Office of the Commonwealth Attorney

$52,000
For the continuation of the Mental Health Docket Project at the Petersburg General District Court.

Prince George County Department of Social Services

$15,000
Towards the Stabilization Project, which works to stabilize families during emergencies and to help families alleviate crises that might lead to out-of-home placements of children.

Prince George County Regional Heritage Center

Up to $70,000
Towards restoration of the historic Clerk’s Office.

Restoration of Petersburg Community Development Corporation

$77,500
For continued general operating support.

Serenity, Inc.

Up to $40,000
For continued general operating support.

The James House Intervention/Prevention Services, Inc.

$55,000
For continued support of rural outreach in Dinwiddie and Prince George counties.