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I am writing to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to you for awarding me the M. William & Frances J. Tilghman Educational Scholarship.  This scholarship will greatly assist with my tuition for the fall, as I begin college at Frostburg State University.  I am both excited and grateful to you for selecting me for this honor.

-- Mardela High School Recipient

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Grants

The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore offers a number of grant opportunities throughout the year to local nonprofit, community and faith-based organizations. CFES is proud of the diversity of the organizations and programs supported through grants from the Community Needs Grant Program, Technical Mini Grant Program, Excellence in Education Program, Field of Interest Funds and our Chairman's Fund. Please take a few minutes to review the wonderful programs we have helped to support on the Lower Eastern Shore.
Assateague Coastal Trust
The Youth Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) has awarded a $550 grant to the Assateague Coastal Trust (ACT). The grant will help support educational events for ACT’s Coast Kids Program during the summer. Pictured (l to r) are:... More Info
Sturgis One Room School Community Needs Grant
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) has awarded a $500 grant to the Sturgis One Room School Museum from the Foundation’s James G. Barrett Worcester County Fund.  The grant will support an educational summer camp for children in the greater... More Info
Atlantic General Hospital Community Needs Grant
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) has awarded a $1,386 grant to Atlantic General Hospital to help support the installation of an automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in a physicians’ office affiliated with the Atlantic General Health... More Info
Easter Seals of Del. & MD Community Needs Grant
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) has awarded a $3,000 Community Needs Program Grant to the Easter Seals of Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore to establish a pilot program in speech therapy for children living in the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland.  Pictured (l... More Info
Friends of Assateague State Park Community Needs Grant
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) has awarded a $4,000 Community Needs Grant to the Friends of Assateague State Park (FOASP) to provide coordination, training, enrichment and evaluation for the 2010 Coastal Stewards and Civic Justice Corps programs that will employ 60... More Info
It Takes a Village to Help Our Children Community Needs Grant
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) recently awarded the nonprofit organization “It Takes A Village To Help Our Children” a Community Needs Program Grant for $7,422.  The grant will provide for transportation for participants in the nonprofit’s summer... More Info
Kids of Honor YEAH Program Community Needs grant
Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore Board Member Melody Nelson (l), presents a Community Needs Program Grant check for $6,000 to Paula Morris, founder of the Kids of Honor organization. The grant was made to help Kids of Honor expand their Youth Excelling in Academics with Honor (YEAH)... More Info
Dove Pointe Awarded Technical Mini Grant
Dove Pointe Foundation was awarded a $930 Technical Mini Grant to purchase a computer workstation for the Employment Discovery Program to assist staff in providing job search assistance to clients.   Dove Pointe staff member Nickole Visan, standing, helps a consumer... More Info