The Community Foundation for San Benito County is pleased and proud to announce Grant Awards!
Over the course of the 2012 grant cycle, forty-six applications were received, requesting a combined total of $782,622. The applications were ranked using pre-established criteria, such as expected community impact. The Grants Committee then made the difficult decisions necessary to fit the recommendations into its budget. The Grants Committee is made up of a knowledgeable and diverse group of community volunteers as well as Foundation board members and staff to assure proper and fair evaluation of all grant requests.
During 2012, thirty-eight awards were recommended to and approved by the Community Foundation Board, totaling $374,427. A final handful of 2012 applications are pending review and approval in January 2013.
AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT
$10,000 California FarmLink – Access to land and capital
ARTS & CULTURE
$ 8,500 SBC Arts Council – Arts Center
$15,000 SBC Office of Education/SBC Arts Council – Arts in Schools
$ 3,500 San Benito Oriana Chorale – Professional support for performances
COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT
$25,000 BenitoLink – Startup funding
$15,000 Community Food Bank of SBC – Summer feeding and back packs
$15,000 Fishes & Loaves – Feeding the poor
$10,000 Hollister Downtown Association – Events Coordinator
$10,000 Hollister Downtown Association – Supplemental request
$10,000 San Benito County Fair – Facilities Improvement Plan
$25,000 SBC Historical Society – Rebuild Dunneville Dancehall
$ 1,500 San Benito Time Exchange – Startup funding
EDUCATION & YOUTH
$15,000 CASA of SBC – Program training
$ 6,000 Chamberlains Children Center – Development Associate
$15,642 Community Services Workforce Development – Summer Youth Employment Training
$ 3,000 Friends of the SBC Free Library – Family Literacy (books for Grow Strong San Benito)
$ 4,625 Girls, Inc. – Smart Choices Summer Program
$ 4,125 Junior Achievement – Project Excel
$ 500 Leadership SBC Class of 2012 – Seminar4Seniors
$ 1,500 San Benito High School – Piano and stage lighting repairs
$15,000 South County Cal-SOAP – High School and Beyond
$ 7,500 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church – St. Luke’s Afterschool Academy
$15,000 YMCA – Operations support
$15,000 Youth Alliance – Youth Empowerment
HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES
$20,000 American Red Cross Monterey Bay Chapter – Operations Manager
$ 4,000 Advocacy, Inc. – Long-term Care Ombudsman Program
$10,000 Community Food Bank of SBC – Supplemental request
$ 7,500 Community Solutions – Solutions to Violence
$25,000 Emmaus House – Operations support
$ 4,000 Family Service Agency of CC – Suicide prevention
$ 5,000 Hazel Hawkins Hospitals Foundation – McCullough Women’s Center resource materials
$15,000 Health Projects Center – Del Mar Caregivers Center
$ 5,000 Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies of SBC – Storks Nest Program
$ 5,285 Jovenes de Antano – Oven replacement/develop strategic plan
$ 7,000 San Juan-Aromas Tennis Club – Tennis court improvement
$ 5,250 Seniors Council – Foster Grandparents Program
$10,000 12 Days of Giving – Matching grant
The Community Foundation for San Benito County serves donors, advances philanthropy, and achieves impact by supporting the work of nonprofit organizations. In doing so, we’ve developed extensive knowledge of San Benito County. We continuously monitor our community to understand the nature of need, the forces of change, available resources, and the capacity for growth.
For more information, visit our website at www.cffsbc.org