The Mid-Shore Community Foundation has announced the results of its recent grant cycle, in which the Foundation awarded $435,098 to local nonprofit organizations.
On Friday, June 10, 2016, representatives from the 42 recipient organizations, along with the Foundation’s Directors, gathered for breakfast at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, Maryland.
Moorhead Vermilye, Chairman of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation, welcomed guests and presented the grant awards to the following organizations.
Bridges at Worthmore, Brown Box Theatre Project, Cambridge South Dorchester High School, Caroline County Public Library, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Chesapeake College Foundation, Chesapeake Music, Chestertown RiverArts, Church Hill Theatre, Compass Regional Hospice, Dorchester Center for the Arts, Easton Choral Arts Society, Echo Hill Outdoor School, Freedom Rowers, Horizons of Kent and Queen Anne’s, IRONClub of Maryland, Kent Association of Riding Therapy, Kent Massive, Mid-Shore Early Learning Center, Midshore Riverkeepers, National Music Festival, Pickering Creek, Really Great Cats Rescue, Saint Martin’s Ministries, Shore Leadership, St. Michaels Community Center, STOP Bullying Talbot, Talbot Historical Society, Talbot Mentors, Talisman Therapeutic Riding, Aspen Institute, Gilbert Byron Society, Gunston School, Humane Society of Kent County, UM Shore Regional Health, United Charitable Programs, Upper Shore Aging, Washington College, Waugh Chapel United Methodist Church, Wye River Upper School and YMCA of the Chesapeake.
Following the grants presentation, Dick Van Gelder, organizational consultant and motivational speaker, addressed the group with an interesting and entertaining presentation about awareness and change.
The Mid-Shore Community Foundation makes numerous charitable distributions each year. Grants are recommended by fund advisors and are awarded through the Foundation’s committee structure. Grants are made for a wide range of worthy projects and causes. In FY 2016, the Foundation provided, $3 million in grants to organizations in Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot Counties.
The Mid-Shore Community Foundation is now seeking grant applications from eligible non-profit organizations for its Fall 2016 grant cycle with the deadline for submission is October 1, 2016. Grant applications can be downloaded and submitted online at www.mscf.org.
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