The Miles River Yacht Club Foundation, with its grant this month to purchase new Optimist dinghies for this summer’s MRYC Junior Sail Program, has now made grants of $158,694 to 23 non-profit organizations in its first four years of grant-making. It also has established a rapidly-growing endowment fund to assure its long-term operation.
The Foundation is now seeking eligible non-profit organizations to apply for grants in its Spring 2015 grants cycle. The deadline for Spring applications is April 15, 2015.
The Foundation gives grants of facilities, equipment, scholarships and general support to organizations that offer sailing, rowing, canoeing, kayaking and swimming, and other maritime educational programs in the Chesapeake Bay region. Organizations who have received prior grants must wait a year before reapplying for support.
The Foundation’s signature “SOS: Sink or Swim” program, seeks to teach every Talbot County non-swimming youngster to swim. In its first of five years, SOS taught 250 non-swimmers to swim in partnership with St. Michaels Community Center and Critchlow Atkins Children’s Center at the St. Michaels Community Pool. In Summer 2015, the Foundation hopes to have raised the necessary funds to teach 1,000 additional children in Easton and St. Michaels to swim.
Grant applications can be accessed and downloaded at www.mrycfoundation.org, or requested by telephoning 410-921-6792 or by writing Maggie Jarboe, Grants Chairman, MRYC Foundation, 606A North Talbot Street, Suite 115, St. Michaels, MD 21663.
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