The Community Foundation of Greene County (CFGC) recently announced that it has awarded grants totaling more than $10,000 through its fall discretionary grant cycle. Funding for the grants was provided primarily through CFGC’s unrestricted Forever Greene Fund and the Bob Bradford Fund, with additional support from the Fund for Arts & Culture, Harvest Fund, and the CONSOL Energy Excellence in Education Fund.
Grants were awarded to support the following projects:
CONSOL Energy Excellence in Education Fund:
- Carmichaels Area School District – $500 – Native American Village project with re-enactors who will construct an early-American native village on the Carmichaels Elementary School grounds and conduct presentations for approximately 500 students in grades K-5 and their teachers.
- West Greene School District – $586 – Community Based Instruction Field Trip to provide local, real-world experience field trip for students with intellectual and learning disabilities.
- West Greene School District – $796.92 – Everyone’s An Artist Mural project for sixth grade students to work with Pittsburgh artist Baron Batch to design and complete a triptych mural for the school. This grant award amount includes support from CFGC’s Fund for Arts & Culture.
Harvest Fund:
- St. George’s Anglican Church – $860.32 – Community Lunch project to purchase supplies and food for weekly community lunches prepared by members of the church. This grant award amount includes support from CFGC’s Forever Greene Fund.
Forever Greene/Bob Bradford Fund:
- PICT Classic Theatre – $1,000 – to provide 250 Carmichaels Elementary school students in grades 1, 3 & 5 with an introduction to theatre and acting.
- West Greene School District – $500 – Pioneer Pantry project to purchase supplies of food, toiletries and other needs for a special pantry for students at the West Greene Middle-Senior High School.
- Greene County Conservation District – $1,000 – to develop Envirothon Educational Resource Boxes for use by science classes and Envirothon teams at each of the five Greene County school districts on a loaned basis.
- Bobtown United Methodist Church – $500 – to develop a community outreach program for youth 10-16 years old with a variety of community speakers to help instill, promote and encourage core values of responsibility, respect, and self-esteem.
- Catholic Charities Greene County Outreach – $1,000 – for winter heating assistance.
- Cornerstone Care, Inc. – $780 – to support the Smile for Life Oral Health Outreach program.
- Domestic Violence Services of Southwestern PA – $2,000 – to develop a support group for incarcerated women at the Greene County jail.
- Waynesburg University – $500 – for the WU Go Girl mentoring event to expand outreach beyond the University to the women and girls of Greene County in partenrship with the Domestic Violence Services of Southwestern PA.
These grants are just part of more than $275,000 in grants and scholarships awarded during 2016 through various endowed designated funds, donor advised funds, scholarship funds, and the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program grants and scholarships.
Since 2002, CFGC has been able to award $3 million in grants and scholarships that have helped meet the needs and improve lives of Greene County residents.