The Greater Salina Community Foundation is pleased to announce grant recipients for the fall 2011 Fund for Greater Salina grants. The Foundation received 37 grant applications with requests totaling more than $137,000. Grant requests are capped at $5,000.
Established in 1999, the Foundation is now in its 12th year, with assets totaling more than $68 million. In that time, the Foundation has awarded nearly $26 million in grants, of that $682,000 has been from the Fund for Greater Salina. Funding for this grant program comes from donations, memorials, and other gifts to the Fund for Greater Salina Endowment. Gifts of any size are welcome additions to this important community grant fund. Significant donors to that endowment include:
Don & Opal Dieckhoff
The Turning Point
Bob & Marcia Anderson
Clark, Mize & Linville, Chtd.
Tex & Betty Fury Fund
Charles E. Stevens Fund
Michael & Alice Sullivan
Chester & Laurabelle Smith
Joe & Mildred Pankaskie
Fund for Greater Salina Grants are awarded twice a year through a competitive application process. The following grants were awarded for fall 2011:
$4,000 Ashby House – Funds will be used for programming that teaches money management and provides training for specific careers that pay a living wage and assist clients in breaking the cycle of poverty.
$3,300 Child Advocacy & Parenting Services – Funds to help cover overhead expenses until the agency moves to a new location. Chris’s Place Child Advocacy Center provides support and services for child victims of abuse.
$5,000 Salina Emergency Aid Food Bank – Funds will be used to purchase a replacement battery for the agency’s forklift. The forklift is used regularly to move pallets of food in the warehouse.
$4,000 Salina Area United Way – Funds will be used for parent education and communication tools for the Partners in Early Childhood Education Act initiative. The goal of the initiative is to increase school readiness in all preschool children.
$1,800 Salina Arts & Humanities Foundation – Funds will be used to support an artist residency featuring workshops and a performance by professional actor and Salina native Jernard Burkes, as well as the Underground Railroad puppets.
$1,000 Sunflower Adult Day Services – Funds will purchase and cover installation of black-out shades for the activity room.
$800 Salina Roadrunners -Provide funds for a new kindergarten through high school cross country club to get kids interested in keeping active and healthy.
The following grants were made possible through a partnership with the Salina Regional Health Foundation Community Health Investment Program (CHIP). Grants funded through this partnership meet specific funding criteria established by CHIP. Grant review, allocation of funding and grant administration is provided by the Community Foundation.
$5,000 Salina Child Care Association – Funding will and replace existing infant cribs with those that that meet new safety standards and will provide scholarships for low-income families who do not qualify for government assistance.
$3,400 Big Brothers Big Sisters – Funding will assist with the cost of required background checks for 125 new volunteer mentors.
$800 Gypsum Community Library – Funds will purchase new books, educational games and craft supplies for the Children’s Summer Reading Program and Story Hour.
$5,000 Child Care Aware of Kansas– Funding for the Literacy Through the Day project in Saline County offering technical assistance, resources and professional development to child care providers with the goal of increasing the literacy level of the children they serve.
$1,500 Cottonwood Elementary School – Funds will be used to purchase supplies for the Character Education Program that encourages honesty, responsibility, discipline and respectful traits in elementary students.
$1,000 Heart Safe Kansas Salina Pilot – Funds will replace lost funding to purchase supplies for high school CPR training for more than 500 students.
$1,000 Rec2Reality – To help with equipment needs for the program, which partners students with disabilities with KWU students in a peer-model program where they gain life skills and create friendships.
$5,000 Trinity United Methodist Church Preschool – To assist with start-up costs for a new preschool in south Salinafor children ages 3-5.
$1,800 28th Judical District Corrections – To provide funds for school supplies, school activity participation fees, immunizations and other basic needs for youth in the program.
$500 Saline County Kansas Kids Fitness Day – to assist with transportation and rental costs for this annual event teaching fun and fitness to approximately 700 area 3rd-graders.
$44,900 Total Grants Awarded
The Greater Salina Community Foundation provides a method for individuals, families, businesses and organizations to establish charitable funds for permanent endowed giving in our community. In addition, the Foundation has special grant programs for high school youth, and for young donors. For more information about the Foundation, visit our website at www.gscf.org.