ST. MICHAELS, MD – The Miles River Yacht Club Foundation is encouraging eligible non-profit organizations to apply for grants in its Fall 2014 grants cycle. The deadline for Fall applications is October 15, 2014, with the next deadline being April 15, 2015.
The Foundation gives grants of facilities, equipment, scholarships and general support to organizations that sponsor competitive sailing, rowing and swimming, and other maritime educational programs in the Chesapeake Bay region. It has given grants totaling $134,292 to 21 area non-profit organizations in its first three years of grant-making. Organizations who have received prior grants must wait a year before reapplying for support.
The Foundation’s signature project is “SOS: Sink or Swim”, an initiative whose goal is to teach all Talbot County children under 15 how to swim. This summer, in partnership with the St. Michaels Community Center, approximately 300 non-swimming children from the Bay Hundred region learned how to swim through the program at the Bay Hundred Community Pool in St. Michaels.
Other grants are provided to programs that teach children to be good stewards of the Chesapeake Bay, and that grow leaders and team players for life through competitive maritime sports.
Grants applications can be accessed and downloaded at www.mrycfoundation.org, by telephoning 410-921-6792, or by writing MRYC Foundation, 606A North Talbot Street, Suite 115, St. Michaels, MD 21663.
The MRYC Foundation receives support from its Spring and Fall annual fundraising events, and from several hundred individuals, businesses, companies and foundations.
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