Cary Community Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $55,000.00 to 27 Area Nonprofits
The Cary Community Foundation is honored to award 27 grants totaling $55,000.00 to local nonprofit organizations whose community service efforts will benefit Cary citizens in the areas of Arts and Culture, Family and Children or Community Development. The awards were presented on Tuesday, November 18 at the Cary Chamber of Commerce Eye-Opener Breakfast at Preston Country Club.These awards will be an annual event and just as this year's funds have increased by $5,000.00, the Cary Community Foundation expects the amount of funds available to increase over time. This year's grant awards were distributed from the Founders Endowment Fund.
Following the awards presentation, The Foundation announced an upcoming Endowment Building Workshop on January 22, 2009. This seminar is designed specifically for area non-profits to aid them in sustaining their work in future years.
Through the award of these grants and the provision of continuing educational workshops, the Board hopes to further the Foundations' mission: To enable all citizens and businesses to contribute to their community and its legacy.
The following recipients of the Foundations 2008 awards include organizations whose mission and activities demonstrate collaboration and practical approaches to the betterment of life in Cary for it's citizens.
Arts and Culture
Cary Ballet: $1,500 to help underwrite the purchase of backdrops for productions.
Cary Visual Arts: $1,000 for expenses related to interviewing artists and the installation of public art.
Friends of Hemlock Bluff: $1,000 to assist in funding design for new entrance gate to nature preserve.
Chabad of Cary Learning Center: $1,000 for purchase of projector and advertising for the Jewish Learning Institute Project.
Triangle Brass Band:$1800 for marketing and expenses associated with performance venue.
Concert Singers of Cary: $700 for the rental of a piano for performances.
Sister Cities Association: $5,000 to host an event speaking to the goals of citizen diplomacy, world peace and grassroot community efforts to achieve this goal.
Family and Children
Cope Eldercare: $1,200 to support geriatric care management services for Cary seniors and their families
Interact: $5,000 for outreach counseling for families and victims of domestic violence in Cary.
White Plains Children's Center: $1,100 for weekly music therapy for children 1-5 years old with identified disabilities.
The Carying Place: $5,700 to support homeless working families with children in their efforts to attain permanent housing.
Hope Line: $1,000 to support Teen Talk line, a crisis and suicide-prevention hotline for teens.
Kraft Family YMCA: $2,000 to enable low income Cary children to attend Y-Learning at Dillard Elementary.
Cary Family YMCA: $2,000 for the Y Learning Program at Adams Elementary.
Read and Feed: $2,500 to increase reading for children of Penny Road or Northwoods School.
Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood: $1,000 to support scholarships for children with mental health problems.
Triangle Family Services: $1,000 to support children traumatized by violence in their home.
Safe Child: $1,000 to support the program "Raising Children with Love and Tenderness".
Triangle Aquatics Center: $2,000 to help provide swim lessons and supplies for 20 disadvantaged children.
April's Angels: $4,000 to support the creation of two fantasy bedrooms for chronically ill children.
Christian Community in Action: $2,000 to help fund JobLink services for people in crisis due to unemployment.
Community Development
Citizens Assisting Police Team: $1,000 for uniforms and and safety equipment for the Cary Park Patrol team members.
Life Experiences: $3,500 to support staff and interns for project Rinse, a summer youth initiative for teenagers with special needs.
Center for Volunteer Caregiving: $3,500 for training and supplies related to program for seniors, family caregivers and adults with disabilities.
Special Olympics: $3,000 to support 65 Cary athletes in state level summer games and mid-summer tournament in Raleigh and Cary.
Cary Community Choir: $500 for promotional materials for free concert on December 7, 2008
TOTAL: $55,000