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$5,000 in Technical Mini-Grants Awarded
March 22, 2010
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore has awarded $5,000 for the Spring 2010 Technical Mini-Grants Program. The mini grants provide awards up to $1,000 for Lower Shore nonprofits to purchase equipment or other resources that are needed to enhance their respective missions. Four of the local nonprofits receiving recent mini-grants were represented at a recent check presentation ceremony.
Pictured (l to r) are: Sister Mary Joseph of The Joseph House; Elmer Barkley, Board Member of It Takes A Village to Help Our Children Foundation; Kimberly Thomas, President of Lower Shore Friends; and Emily Rantz, Theater Manager of the Mar-Va Theater and Performing Arts Center. Nonprofits awarded mini grants but not pictured are: HALO (Hope and Life Outreach), and the Somerset County Arts Council.
Technical Mini Grants are awarded to nonprofit agencies in
Somerset , Wicomico and
Worcester
Counties. The six nonprofit organizations awarded mini-grants by the Community Foundation during the current grant cycle were:
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The Joseph House Center was awarded $750 to purchase a computer to more effectively manage volunteers and for in-house marketing activities.
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HALO – Hope and Life Outreach was awarded $1,000 to purchase two laptop computers to enable the organization to more effectively execute tasks that often requires work out of the office.
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It Takes a Village to Help Our Children Foundation, Inc., was awarded $750 to purchase a computer to replace a manual system of tracking program implementation data required by the organization’s grant administrators.
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Mar-Va Theater Performing Arts Center, Inc., was awarded $750 to purchase office equipment to support the organization’s first full-time staff person.
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The Somerset County Arts Council was awarded $1,000 to develop a website for the organization.
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Lower Shore Friends, Inc., was awarded $750 to purchase two laptop computers so the staff may provide better services to consumers that are unable to access services in the office.
The Community Foundation of the
Eastern Shore is a charitable public foundation serving the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland by building charitable funds, advising donors, making effective grants and providing leadership to address community needs.
