Recent Foundation Grants

August 2010

Community Leadership Partner grants -- Awarded to organizations working to improve educational outcomes for Hampton Roads children (ages birth to 5). Recipients are:

• Chesapeake Health Investment Program, $22,352 to train visiting nurses, outreach workers and Head Start providers to help Chesapeake and Portsmouth parents be their children's first teachers.
• Places & Programs for Children, $25,000 to support scholarships for preschoolers at Children's Harbor centers in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Suffolk.
• Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, $15,000 to purchase 5,450 books for pediatricians to give to area parents to encourage reading to their children.
• Hurrah Players, $7,418 to buy equipment for the Babes on Broadway musical theater program for area preschoolers.
• Portsmouth Schools Foundation, $20,000 for Portsmouth Reads workshops to train 40 Portsmouth childcare providers.
• Reaching Our Communities, $12,250 for a toddler and parent education program in Virginia Beach's Atlantis Apartments and nearby neighborhood.
• Smart Beginnings South Hampton Roads, $15,000 to pay for two Virginia Beach childcare centers to participate in the Quality Rating and Improvement System.
• Square One, $15,080 for online professional development training for early childhood educators in Hampton Roads.
• Suffolk Early Childhood Development Commission, $18,000 to help unlicensed Suffolk childcare providers obtain state licenses.
• The Children's Center, $20,000 to help expand the Head Start program in Suffolk.
• The Up Center, $15,000 to bring the Parents as Teachers program to families whose children attend the Ida Barbor Early Learning Center in Portsmouth or Children's Harbor centers in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
• WHRO, $14,900 for summer reading camps for area preschoolers from low-income neighborhoods.

 

Beach Fund grants -- Awarded to organizations working with children in the Lake Edward neighborhood of Virginia Beach. The Beach Fund is a group of young adult philanthropists.

• Horizons Hampton Roads, $5,000 for literacy, educational and cultural enrichment for Lake Edward children during a summer program at Chesapeake Bay Academy.
• Seton Youth Shelters, $5,000 for its street outreach van to provide food, clothing, hygiene items and other assistance for children living in the Lake Edward neighborhood.
• Virginia Beach Education Foundation, $5,000 for the Eagles Excel in Education public school program to help Lake Edward families support their children's education.
• Virginia Wesleyan College, $4,250 for its student-led tutoring program for Lake Edward children.

• $916,981 in scholarships to help 348 students attend college this fall. Recipients come primarily from Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach. They will attend more than 60 different colleges and universities. The scholarships come from 55 different scholarship funds administered by the foundation.
• $214,433 in grants to seven nonprofits from the E.K. Sloane Fund to purchase pianos. Recipients are: Hampton University, Isle of Wight County Public Schools, Jewish Museum and Cultural Center in Portsmouth, Norfolk Public Schools, Portsmouth Public Schools, Randolph-Macon College and Southampton County Public Schools.
• Academy for Nonprofit Excellence, $136,240 to support the Tidewater Community College program, which offers one- and two-day classes for the staff and volunteers of Hampton Roads nonprofit organizations.
• Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, $131,190 grant to upgrade the Virginia Beach art center’s computer system and audio visual equipment.
• Multi-cultural Performing Arts Consulting, $15,000 to purchase steel drums to teach music to children attending Southside Boys and Girls Club programs at Campostella Elementary School and in the Diggs Town housing community.
• PORTCO, $15,000 for a feasibility study on ways to make the Portsmouth employment service organization’s building more energy efficient.
  

 

• Building Excellence grants were awarded to four Hampton Roads nonprofits to provide them 18 months of consulting services designed to help them improve their fundraising efforts. Recipients are ACCESS Aids Care, Armed Services YMCA of Hampton Roads, Places and Programs for Children, and Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Foundation.
• Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation, $1 million paid over five years to help build a new classroom and research building as part of an $80 million expansion. It is designed to help the school increase enrollment of medical students by 29% by 2016 to help meet an anticipated shortage of physicians in Virginia. It will allow EVMS ti increase enrollment in other medical professional programs by 37%.
• Chesapeake Bay Academy, $27,260 for a new phone system for the Virginia Beach school that serves students with learning disabilities from throughout Hampton Roads.
• Virginia Business Coalition on Health, $8,000 to upgrade technology for Square One, a program that trains child-care providers.

 

• Blackwater Regional Library, $68,360 to purchase 30 computers and equipment for three libraries in Courtland, Franklin and Smithfield to use in computer training.
  
• Business Consortium for Arts Support, $445,000 to provide operating support for area arts and cultural groups in 2010.
  
• The Community Builders, up to $75,000 to expand its community center that serves residents of the Broad Creek neighborhood in Norfolk.
  
• Chesapeake Humane Society, $60,000 from the Alfred L. Nicholson Fund to help support its spay and neuter clinic.
  
• Eastern Virginia Medical School, $43,000 from the Benjamin R. Brown and Charles G. Brown funds for mental health research.
  
• Elizabeth River Project, $50,000 to help fund wetlands restoration, a walking trail, overlook and other features at Paradise Creek Nature Park in Portsmouth.
  
• Five Points Community Farm Market, $4,500 from the Julian Haden Gary and Margaret Savage Gary Fund to support a community garden at the Norfolk farm market.
  
• Friends of the Fred Heutte Foundation, $5,950 from the Julian Haden Gary and Margaret Savage Gary Fund for its Urban Gardener Lecture Series and to purchase window blinds for the Norfolk garden center.
  
• Norfolk Botanical Garden, $12,000 from the Julian Haden Gary and Margaret Savage Gary Fund for educational programming for families.
  
• Norfolk SPCA, $100,000 from the Alfred L. Nicholson Fund to purchase veterinary supplies for the shelter.
  
• Oasis Commission on Social Ministry, $100,000 to help construct a new building in Portsmouth for a soup kitchen, food pantry and other services to homeless people from Portsmouth, Chesapeake and northern Suffolk.
  
• The Salvation Army, Suffolk Unit, $75,000 to build an addition for physical health and community education programs.
  
• Virginia Beach Community Development Corp., $100,000 to renovate transitional housing units for homeless families in Virginia Beach.
  
• Virginia Beach SPCA, $100,000 from the Alfred L. Nicholson Fund to replace heating and cooling units and make other improvements to improve the energy efficiency of the animal shelter.
  
• Virginia Supportive Housing, $15,890 to start a community garden at The Cloverleaf Apartments in Virginia Beach, whose residents formerly were homeless.
• Virginia Wesleyan College, $114,076 in matching funds to help renovate a chemistry lab in Blocker Hall and to purchase science equipment.
  
• Virginia Zoological Society, $7,850 from the Julian Haden Gary and Margaret Savage Gary Fund for horticulture education at the Norfolk zoo.