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Press Releases
Foundation Awards Over $6,500 in Technical Mini Grants
Lower Shore nonprofits receive grants to enhance their missions
August 30, 2010
Dove Pointe staff member Nickole Visan, standing, helps a consumer search for employment opportunities using the new Employment Discovery Station, purchased with a CFES Technical Mini Grant.
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore recently awarded $6,525 in Technical Mini Grants to seven local nonprofit organizations through the
Foundation’s Nonprofit Support Program.
The purpose of awarding Technical Mini Grants is to provide
up to $1,000 for individual nonprofit agencies in Somerset, Wicomico, and
Worcester Counties for the purchase of equipment, attendance at training
opportunities, or for other resources necessary to enhance their respective
missions.
Nonprofit organizations awarded Technical Mini Grants by the
Community Foundation during the current grant cycle were:
- The Julia A. Purnell
Museum was awarded $1000 for a consultant
to conduct a strategic plan.
- Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation was awarded $940 for a
laptop and projector for classroom training programs.
- Quota International was awarded $1000 to design a website that will
allow the Club to promote the variety of program and partners that it
works with throughout the year to help deaf/hearing impaired individuals
and disadvantaged women and children.
- Dove Pointe Foundation was
awarded $930 to purchase a computer workstation for the Employment
Discovery Program to assist staff in providing job search assistance to
clients.
- Habitat for Humanity of
Wicomico County was awarded $1,000 for two computer workstations.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland and the Maryland
Mentoring Resource Center was awarded $655 for purchase of a computer
workstation to more effectively serve a broader geographic area, with the
focus on the recruitment of new mentors.
- Salisbury Urban Ministries was awarded $1,000 to replace their printer/copier.
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. For more information about the Community Foundation visit the Foundation’s web site at www.cfes.org, or phone 410-742-9911.
