Grant Award Recipients 2008

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
Cary Visual Arts$1,000
Friends of Hemlock Bluff$1,000
Chabad of Cary Learning Center$1,000
Triangle Brass Band$1,800
Concert Singers of Cary$700
Sister Cities Association$5,000

Family and Children
Cope Eldercare$1,200
Interact$5,000
White Plains Children's Center$1,100
The Carying Place$5,700
Hope Line$1,000
Kraft Family YMCA$2,000
Cary Family YMCA$2,000
Read and Feed$2,500
Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood$1,000
Triangle Family Services$1,000
Safe Child$1,000
Triangle Aquatics Center$2,000
April's Angels$4,000
Christian Community in Action$2,000

Community Development
Citizens Assisting Police Team$1,000
Life Experiences$3,500
Center for Volunteer Caregiving$3,500
Special Olympics$3,000
Cary Community Choir$ 500

TOTAL$55,000