General Grants: Feb – 2010

Al-A-Mo Recovery Center, Inc.

$39,500
For general operating support as well as to hire a part-time program administrator.

Miles B. Carpenter Museum

$3,335
To provide performing arts programs to students in Sussex County Public Schools.

Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Alliance for Social Ministry

$20,000
Towards general operating support.

City of Petersburg Department of Social Services

$200,000
To extend the Petersburg Family Stabilization Initiative into 2011.

Crater Small Business Development Center

$95,730 (over 2 years)
Towards support of the Crater Small Business Matching Project.

Friends of the Army Women’s Museum Association

$38,752
For the salaries of one part-time education specialist and three education assistants.

Happy Acres Foundation

$15,000
For general operating support.

The Henricus Foundation

$27,100
To implement Phase III of the Partnership in Education Project with Petersburg City Public Schools.

Historic Hopewell Foundation, Inc.

$15,250
For the Petersburg Region Educational Program’s 2010 “History Underfoot: Community Teacher Institute.”

Hopewell Bureau of Fire

$7,000
To conduct advanced level emergency medical training.

Learn to Earn, Inc.

$140,000
To support the Healthcare and Green Jobs Training project.

Legal Information Network for Cancer (LINC)

$29,682
For continued outreach and education services in The Cameron Foundation’s service area.

Petersburg City Public Schools

Up to $80,000
Continued support of the Accreditation Incentive Program.

Rawls Museum Arts

$11,592
To continue providing arts enrichment programs to students in Sussex County Public Schools.

Richard Bland College Foundation

$105,000
For the Allied Health Program, including funds for technical consultation, supplies, and the health sciences coordinator position.

Science Museum of Virginia Foundation

$42,500
To implement the Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) program for Petersburg youth.

Sussex County Department of Social Services

$35,000
Continued support for the Sussex County Resource and Technology Center.

Urban League of Greater Richmond

$60,844
Continued support for the Project Employment initiative in Petersburg.

Virginia Association for Competitive Swimming (VACS)

$4,482
For the Make a Splash anti-drowning initiative.

Virginia Commonwealth University

$48,989
For year three of the Documentation Project, a research study to document the history of The Cameron Foundation as well as the impact of its grantmaking strategies on the service area.

Virginia Dental Health Foundation

$14,800
Continued support for the Donated Dental Services program in The Cameron Foundation’s service area.

YMCA of Greater Richmond

$64,000
To support teen programming at the Southside YMCA as well as the Chester YMCA’s teen and adult programs serving the Colonial Ridge and Bermuda Run communities.