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Through the Community Response Grants program, the Community Foundation is able to respond to community needs not only today but forever. The current focus of these grants is to build the capacity of organizations and the community by providing funding for projects that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of nonprofits. The Community Response Grants Committee reviewed fifty-one grant requests totaling $114,976. Twenty grants totaling $34,913 were awarded.
Spring 2008 Awards
Adopt-A-Block Poughkeepsie, Inc.
$750
Funds to create a procedural and training manual for volunteers to ensure consistency, increased efficiency and timeliness of work completion.
Beacon Arts Community Association (BACA)
$2,000
To support a capacity-building project focusing on community outreach and membership development. Funds will be used to hire a consultant and develop member benefits to include a Welcome Package for current and future BACA members.
Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse
$866
Funds to purchase a laptop computer for the Teen Life Program and for staff to attend training workshops.
Community Family Development
$1,000
Funds to enrich and improve the literacy program.
Council on Addiction Prevention and Education of Dutchess County
$3,000
Funds will be used to support the Marathon Project, a distance running program that pairs adult mentors with at-risk youth ages twelve through eighteen in Dutchess County.
FOVEA
$1,500
To purchase a digital projector with speakers, wireless microphone systems and an indoor/outdoor portable screen that will enhance organizational capacity and the quality of exhibitions and educational programs.
Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association, Inc.
$2,000
Funds to redesign the organization’s Web site so that viewers can easily obtain information about the organization and its history.
His Table Ministries, Inc.
$1,200
To purchase a laptop computer to keep track of food donations and a cell phone for the director to help better manage agency operations.
Housatonic Valley Association
$1,250
Support to hold a conference on Water and Sustainable Development targeted at Pawling, Dover Plains and Amenia.
Literacy Connections of Dutchess County, Inc.
$1,450
Funds for staff members to attend literacy training conferences.
Locust Grove, The Samuel Morse Historic Site
$997
To purchase a computer and monitor to store photographs of Locust Grove’s collection of thousands of documents and artifacts. This will enable the entire collection to be inventoried electronically and accessed remotely by historians and other researchers, as well as protect the documents and photographs from degradations.
Martin Luther King Cultural Center, Inc.
$2,000
Funds to hire a consultant to work with the Executive Director and Board to increase fiscal and organization management as a result of the Center’s growth. A laptop computer will be purchased to increase effectiveness and reporting efficiency.
Mental Health America of Dutchess County, Inc. (MHA)
$1,500
Funds to offer staff training for MHA and other agencies and host two events as part of the Men Get Depression National Awareness Campaign.
New Horizons Resources, Inc.
$1,500
Funds to outfit staff training rooms with multimedia presentation equipment and CPR training mannequins that will allow for enhanced educational experiences.
Northern Dutchess Day Care Center, Inc.
$1,500
Funds to incorporate new educational tools into the enrichment curriculum allowing teachers to match the child’s developmental abilities with the appropriate materials and activities.
Nubian Directions, II, Inc.
$2,100
Funds will be used to purchase computer furniture.
Planned Parenthood of the Mid Hudson Valley Inc.
$2,600
Support for the purchase of four laptop computers: two for Poughkeepsie and one each for Beacon and Red Hook that will be used by health care staff and clinicians for patient intake and care.
Poughkeepsie Farm Project
$2,650
Funds to purchase additional bins for food delivery and special trays for the delivery of ripe tomatoes. In addition, kitchen equipment and cooking supplies will be purchased to enhance on-farm and market-based cooking demonstrations.
Somos La Llave del Futuro
$3,000
Support to help develop the organization including web page development, publications, training materials and publicity.
Town of Amenia
$2,050
Support for the expansion of an after school dance program that is open to children in grades kindergarten through fifth grade in the Webutuck Central School District.
Spring 2007
Fall 2007
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