Shineman Foundation awards $270,000 in grants to area nonprofits

OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Richard S. Shineman Foundation announced that it recently awarded 11 Central New York not-for-profit organizations serving Oswego County with $270,000 in awards in its first grant round of 2019.

 The awarded projects cover a wide range of focus areas, including community revitalization and preservation, education, health and human services, and arts and culture.

The funded projects will benefit Oswego County in a number of areas. The largest award, $150,000, was given to the Oswego Renaissance Association (ORA) representing the foundation’s continued commitment to assist the ORA in its sixth year of helping with reinvestment and improvement of city of Oswego neighborhoods, according to a Shineman Foundation news release.

 Shineman provided other community revitalization grants to Fulton’s CNY Arts Center to assist with completion of final Phase 2 renovations, the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce for revitalizing the Oswego and Fulton Farmers Markets, and the Sunrise Rotary Club of Oswego for its Leotta Park Pavilion project. Friends of Mexico Point Park also received a grant to help with the restoration of historic Casey’s Cottage.

 In education, the Shineman Foundation awarded a grant to the H. Lee White Maritime Museum to assist with its multi-year capacity building project. The Children’s Board of Oswego received a grant for its Keepers of the Lighthouse event this July, which is a collaboration among numerous community organizations, the release stated.

 The foundation also provided funding to Friends of Oswego County Hospice to promote its 30th anniversary of work in health and human services.

 The Shineman Foundation also awarded arts and culture grants to the Art Association of Oswego for its 2019 Art Outreach program, the Oswego Players to build the capacity of its year-round Theater Arts Youth Academy, and to the Research Foundation for SUNY Art Department’s My Home Town project in collaboration with the city of Oswego and the Oswego City school district’s art teachers.

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