UTICA — The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties recently announced awards totaling more than $340,000 to 12 nonprofit organizations through its competitive grants process for the third quarter of 2018. Competitive grants are awarded to area nonprofits primarily in support of the foundation’s strategic investment areas of education, economic development, health and wellness, […]
UTICA — The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties recently announced awards totaling more than $340,000 to 12 nonprofit organizations through its competitive grants process for the third quarter of 2018.
Competitive grants are awarded to area nonprofits primarily in support of the foundation’s strategic investment areas of education, economic development, health and wellness, and arts and culture.
The following organizations were awarded competitive grants, according to a Community Foundation news release:
• Boy Scouts of America Leatherstocking Council — An $8,400 grant for renovations to a shower house.
• Community Wellness Partners — A $25,000 award to fund training for management and staff.
• Compassion Coalition — A $60,400 grant for a delivery truck.
• Frankfort Free Library — $50,000 allocated to fund renovations to the main entrance and install a chair lift.
• Handshake.City — A $25,000 grant to create a recycled container marketplace and park in downtown Utica. (See photo)
• HealthFriends — Awarded $7,150 to update a server and computers, and automate systems.
• Herkimer County Historical Society — Allocated $25,000 to support exterior building preservation and maintenance.
• Mohawk Homestead — A $25,000 grant for elevator upgrades.
• Sculpture Space — A $9,100 grant for the Art Herkimer book and website.
• Utica Yard Dogs –— A $2,150 grant for game day field costs.
• Valley Health Services — A $100,000 grant to support pre-construction costs for a new nursing home.
• YWCA of the Mohawk Valley — A $6,900 grant for a feasibility study.
In addition to competitive grants, the Community Foundation’s donor-advised funds awarded 96 grants totaling more than $615,000 to 73 organizations. They include the following: Abraham House, Arc Herkimer, Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Central New York Community Foundation, City of Utica, Hamilton College, Herkimer County College Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of the Mohawk Valley, Mohawk Valley Community College Foundation, Mohawk Valley Health System Foundation, Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, North Country Public Radio, On Point For College, Rescue Mission of Utica, The House of the Good Shepherd, The Root Farm, United Way of the Valley and Greater Utica Area, Upstate Medical University Alumni Foundation, Utica College, and Utica Public Library.
Grants are made possible through the “generosity of donors and organizations that create funds” at the Community Foundation, the release stated. The following new funds were created to benefit residents of Herkimer and Oneida counties for “years to come”:
• Clinton Arena Improvement Fund — An agency fund established by the Town of Kirkland to benefit Clinton Arena.
• Dicks Family Fund — A donor-advised fund established to provide support for charitable purposes.
• Jack and Trudy Owens Fund — A field-of-interest fund created to support the arts, as well as the Utica Public Library.
• Kevin “Bing” Crossley Memorial Foundation — A donor-advised fund established in honor of Kevin “Bing” Crossley, a Village of Whitesboro police officer who lost his life in a motor-vehicle accident while on patrol in April 2018.
• Wanderers’ Rest Humane Association Charitable and Investment Funds — Agency funds established by Wanderers’ Rest Humane Association to administer giving programs and invest charitable assets to support the mission of providing better lives for animals.