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Marietta Community Foundation Announces Grant Recipients
Posted 2008-04-18 by MCF
Marietta
, OH,
April 3, 2008
---The
Marietta
Community Foundation today announced six grants totaling more than $28,000 to area organizations half of which provide special services for children, it was announced today by Teri Zide, the Foundation’s Board Chair.
“We received some very worthy grant requests from more than a dozen non-profits,” Zide said, “and our allocations committee working closely with Carol Wharff, the Foundation’s Program and Donor Services officer, had the difficult task of selection.”
The largest award went to the Summer Adventure Camp for children 7-15 years of age run by the Marietta Family YMCA.
The second was awarded to Sharpe Education, Inc., which will run a summer feeding program for children at sites in Bartlett/Cutler, Belpre and
Marietta
, and the Betsey Mills Club got funds to build a toddler room at a new childcare facility located at a house just north of the Club on Fourth St.
“These grants reinforce the concept that it takes a village to raise a child,” YMCA Director Al Miller commented. “Last year’s summer program involved swimming, boating, fort building, drawing, study of the Kroger Wetlands and the Muskingum River
Valley
, overnight experiences, art, crime scene investigation and movie making. Roger Kalter, our Youth Program Director, tells me that with the Foundation’s and the community’s increasing support, this summer will be even more exciting and beneficial.”
“We have all contributed to the growth and welfare of the children in the area by establishing a foundation built around four character traits of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility,” Miller added.
Marietta
College
received a grant to help with funding the construction of the Anderson-Hancock Planetarium at Fourth and
Butler
, and the
Washington
County
Chapter of the American Red Cross received money to purchase mannequins for its on-going community CPR training program.
The Community Foundation’s sixth grant was awarded to the Beverly Volunteer Fire Dept. to purchase safety helmets for the firemen.“We normally do not make grants of this type,” Zide said, “but this firehouse group has worked so hard to raise funds to move into a new facility, we felt we should certainly help protect the volunteers.”
This was the first of three grant award cycles the Community Foundation holds annually. The deadline for submitting applications for the second cycle is June 7, and application forms can be obtained at the Foundation’s offices at 121 Putnam St.
Other grants, from restricted and donor advised funds, are made throughout the year, and information about contributing to or opening a donor advised fund can be obtained by calling 373-3286.
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