Total Awarded
in February 2010:
$1,098,556
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.