General Grants: October 2019

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond

$58,000
For general operating support for the Petersburg Club.

CARES, Inc.

$49,350
For general operating support.

Children’s Home Society of Virginia

$12,500
For the Possibilities Project, a research-based collaborative program centered on empowering youth who have aged out of foster care.

City of Colonial Heights Department of Recreation & Parks

$43,715
To support work of the Violet Bank Restoration Project.

City of Hopewell Fire and Rescue

$62,500
Towards the purchase of a new ambulance.

Colonial Heights Food Pantry Inc.

$52,000
For general operating support.

Crater Community Hospice Inc.

$50,000
For hospice care, specifically towards medications and medical equipment.

Downtown Churches United Inc.

$37,025
For continued general operating support.

Equal Justice America Inc.

$7,000
To place one fall fellow, one spring fellow and one summer fellow at Central Virginia Legal Aid Society in Petersburg.

Family Lifeline

$35,000
To support the Petersburg Early Childhood Home Visiting Initiative.

First Baptist Church of Petersburg

$20,000
A Sacred Landmarks Grant towards restoration of the west porch.

Gateway Homes Inc.

$40,500
To provide outpatient clinical services to individuals with mental illness.

Greater Richmond SCAN

$15,000
Continued support for the Child Advocacy Center (CAC), which serves children who are victimized by, and exposed to, sexual abuse and associated trauma.

Lucy Corr Foundation Inc.

$10,000
Toward providing oral health equity to seniors in Chesterfield and the Tri-Cities areas.

Merchants Hope Episcopal Church

$11,000
A Sacred Landmarks Grant to replace the roof shingles on Merchants Hope Episcopal Church.

Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers, Inc.

$12,700
For the Fitness Warriors Tri-Cities program.

Petersburg Area Art League Inc.

$15,000
For general operating support.

Petersburg Library Foundation Inc.

$42,000
For the Healthy Living and Learning Center.

Petersburg Preservation Task Force

$36,000
Toward general operating support.

Pretty Purposed

$9,660
For girls’ mentoring programs coordinated between Pretty Purposed and Cupcakes & Conversation.

Rawls Museum Arts Inc.

$10,000
To provide arts outreach programming to Sussex County Public Schools.

Serenity

$50,000
Toward general operating support.

Southside Transformation Opportunities for Residents and Youth (STORY)

$25,600
For the ML2 (Math, Literacy and Leadership) Youth Development Program.

St. Joseph’s Villa

$58,500
To support the Flagler Housing Resource Center, which provides rapid re-housing and homeless prevention services for the Tri-Cities areas.

Swift Creek Mill Theatre Inc.

$25,000
Towards youth admissions for schoolwide Title I schools in Colonial Heights, Petersburg, Hopewell, Prince George, Sussex and Dinwiddie.

Virginia Dental Association Foundation

$13,000
Continued funding for the Donated Dental Services program.