General Grants: June 2015

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond

$60,000
For continued support of programming at the Petersburg Boys & Girls Club.

Central Virginia Health Services

$347,000
Continued funding for the Primary Care Access project at Appomattox Area Health and Wellness Center.

Chesterfield CASA, Inc.

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

Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Alliance for Social Ministry (CCHASM)

$25,000
Continued general operating support.

ChildSavers of Richmond/Memorial Child Guidance Clinic

$40,000
To continue support of the Virginia Star Quality Initiative (VSQI) in the Tri-Cities.

Communities In Schools of Virginia

$100,000
To renew funding for the site coordinator at Peabody Middle School as well as to add a second coordinator to be placed in another Petersburg school.

Dinwiddie County Division of Planning & Community Development

$30,000
For support of the Youth Workforce Development Initiative.

Downtown Churches United, Inc.

$56,000
Continued general operating support.

Ellen Shaw de Paredes Breast Cancer Foundation

$21,839
For the Petersburg Project of the Free Mammography Outreach Program.

Equal Justice America

$8,000
Renewal funding for stipends for two summer fellows to work in the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond and serving the Tri-Cities area.

Family Lifeline

$50,000
For continuation of the Petersburg Early Childhood Development Initiative.

GReat Aspirations Scholarship Programs, Inc. (GRASP)

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

Hopewell Food Pantry

$35,000
Continued general operating support.

Hopewell-Prince George Healthy Families

$39,485
For continuation of the Home Visitation Program and Targeted Case Management Services in collaboration with District 19 Community Services Board.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Virginia

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

Meadowview Biological Research Station

$35,000
For The Center for Biodiversity at Joseph Pines Preserve project.

National Alliance on Mental Illness of Central Virginia (NAMI-CVA)

$19,395
Renewal funding for Peer-to-Peer Education classes, In Our Own Voice and NAMI Connection Support groups in District 19.

Petersburg Area Regional Tourism Corporation (PART)

$25,000
For the Regional Tourism Capacity Building Initiative 2015-2016.

Petersburg Health Department

$192,000
For continued support of the HealthSpace Teen Clinic.

Petersburg Public Library

$70,000
For continuation of the Healthy Living and Learning Center (HHLLC) project, specifically, to hire a full-time Health Program Coordinator for the center.

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$25,000
Renewal funding for the Tri-City Renew Crew Accessibility and Home Repair Project.

Smart Beginnings Hopewell-Prince George-Crater

$50,000
Continued support for early childhood development programming across the region.

Southside Health Education Foundation

$51,000
For continuation of the Building a Health Care Workforce Pipeline for the Southside Region initiative.

St. Joseph’s Villa

$67,000
Continued support to operate the Flagler Housing Resource Center in Petersburg.

Sussex County Department of Social Services

$40,000
For Sussex County Preventive Services.

Sussex County Public Schools

$50,000
For the STEAM Academy after-school and summer enrichment program.

Tabb Street Presbyterian Church

$19,290
A Sacred Landmarks Grant for the Restoration of Front Steps project.

Virginia’s Gateway Region

$275,000
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.

YMCA of Greater Richmond

$65,000
Towards the new diabetes programming at the Petersburg branch and continued support for the youth development programs offered at the Chester branch.