General Grants: June 2016

Alzheimer’s Association – Greater Richmond Chapter

$20,925
For the Enhancing Care and Support and Increase Awareness in the Tri-Cities project.

Army Quartermaster Foundation, Inc.

$5,000
To support the Touching the Past educational programming for students in the region.

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities/Preservation Virginia

$40,000
For the Historic District Survey Project, Phase 2, to assess the conditions of structures in Petersburg’s Center Hill, Pocahontas Island, North Battersea and Poplar Lawn historic districts.

Central Virginia Health Services

$312,000
Continued funding for primary care access at Appomattox Area Health and Wellness Center.

Chesterfield CASA, Inc.

$20,000
Continued support for the CASA Volunteer Training and Supervision project.

ChildSavers of Richmond/Memorial Child Guidance Clinic

$30,000
To support continuation of the Virginia Quality Improvement Program within the service area to include one-on-one services at 12 child care centers and professional training across the region.

City of Petersburg Department of Planning & Community Development

$81,060
To stabilize the historic Jarratt House, specifically rebuilding the rear wall.

Communities In Schools of Virginia

$90,000
For one-half of the costs for a site coordinator at Petersburg High School as well as at two other schools within the Petersburg district.

Downtown Churches United, Inc.

$56,000
Continued general operating support.

Friends of the Waverly Library

$18,152
To install a new heating and air conditioning system in the Agnes Taylor Gray Library in Waverly.

GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program, Inc. (GRASP)

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

Greater Richmond Fit4Kids

$45,000
For the Petersburg Wellness Integration project, which incorporates active lessons in the classroom setting to include fitness and kinesthetic learning.

Hopewell Downtown Partnership, Inc.

$30,000
To hire an operations staff support person.

Hopewell Food Pantry

$35,000
For continued general operating support.

Hopewell-Prince George Healthy Families

$30,000
For the Healthy Families Home Visitation and Targeted Case Management program.

Learn to Earn, Inc.

$70,000
For the Pathway to Career program, which helps to move participants from unemployed or underemployed into sustainable wage jobs.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Virginia

$100,000
For continued support of the Petersburg Revitalization project.

Petersburg Health Department

$160,000
For continued support of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Project.

Reach Out and Read Virginia

$4,600
To purchase the books that will be distributed in The Cameron Foundation’s service area in the coming program year.

Southside Health Education Foundation

$40,000
For continuation of the Building a Health Care Workforce Pipeline for the Southside Region Initiative.

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

$25,000
A Sacred Landmarks Grant for window repairs as part of the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Preservation project.

Virginia’s Gateway Region

$250,000
To continue to support efforts to expand and enhance economic opportunities in the cities of Colonial Heights, Hopewell and Petersburg, and the counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Surry and Sussex.

Washington Street United Methodist Church

$25,000
A Sacred Landmarks Grant for the Sanctuary Roof Replacement project.

Willcox Watershed Conservancy

$13,600
To develop connecting trails and signage as components of the Lee Memorial Park All Access Trail ADA Parking project.

YMCA of Greater Richmond

$555,000
Continued support towards youth development programs at the Chester branch and diabetes programming at the Petersburg branch, as well as capital improvements to the Petersburg facility.