Community Leadership Partners and Beach Fund Grants

 

Beach Fund Grants 2010

The Community Leadership Partners and the Beach Fund award grants annually to nonprofits in Hampton Roads working in key focus areas selected by members. For 2011 both groups chose to help nonprofits working with children.

The Community Leadership Partners awarded $200,000 in grants in September 2011 to 25 organizations working with school-aged children while they are not in school. Grant recipients are:

• Boys & Girls Clubs of SEVA, $15,000 to help fund Goals for Graduation and Club Tech, after school programs for 3rd - 8th graders in Chesapeake that focus on graduation and explore high-tech careers.
• Christian Athletic Union, $3,000 to help fund an after school tutoring and recreation program serving children ages seven to 17 at the New Community Temple Church of God in Portsmouth.
• Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association of Norfolk, $3,000 to help fund the Youth Safety Academy of Norfolk, a pilot project providing insights into law enforcement and community safety for students from the Ingleside and Broad Creek neighborhoods of Norfolk.
• Crispus Attucks Cultural Center, $10,000 for a summer program providing children ages seven - 17 from Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach fun hands-on activities. 
• Development of Youth Athletic Association (American Youth Football), $3,500 to help fund Path to Educational Success, an after school program assisting Norfolk youth, grades K-12 through one-on-one tutoring sessions and homework assistance.
• Dwelling Place, $10,000 to help fund the Child Development Program, an educational, recreational and therapeutic program for homeless children who live in the emergency shelter in Norfolk. 
• Foodbank of SEVA, $10,000 to support the Rosemont Kids Café, a program serving hot meals to children in need in Virginia Beach.
• Girls on the Run of South Hampton Roads, $4,000 to help fund an after school program in Norfolk that encourages preteen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through structured education and physical activity. 
• HER Shelter (Help Emergency & Response), $12,000 to help fund MENtoring, a program in Portsmouth and Chesapeake where children are paired with a male mentor to work on goals.   
• Help Bridge the Gap Servant of the King, $3,000 to help fund the Language Arts Core Program, a program providing Title I students from from Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Norfolk with activities focused on improving reading, written and oral communications and spelling.
• Horizons Hampton Roads, $10,000 to help fund a summer enrichment program for at-risk students grade one through nine in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach.
• Horton Tennis Academy, $3,000 to help fund an after school academic and tennis program for children living in high poverty neighborhoods in Norfolk.
• Hurrah Players, $5,000 to help fund Arts Camp, a summer art program for children ages five to 18 who reside in high poverty neighborhoods in Norfolk. 
• Old Dominion University Education Foundation, $15,000 to help fund CARE NOW, a program designed to promote the character and resiliency of 6th grade students at Blair and Lafayette-Winona Middle Schools in Norfolk with the primary goal of enhancing academic achievement, particularly math skills. 
• Park Place Child Life Center, $10,000 to help fund afterschool and weekend art and music classes in one of Norfolk's poorest neighborhoods. 
• REACH, Inc., $2,000 to help provide literacy programming for homeless children through weekly read aloud sessions and quarterly parent workshops within the emergency shelters in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach.
• Samaritan House, $5,000 to help fund an after school and summer program for children residing in the emergency shelter and transitional housing in Virginia Beach. 
• Starlight Creative Arts Center, $5,000 to help fund an Arts Development program designed to stimulate cognitive thinking and to improve academic achievement in school for children ages five to 17 living in the Twin Canal Village Apartments in Virginia Beach. 
• Together We Can Foundation, $10,000 to help fund the Connections Program, a program to prepare foster care youth in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk and Portsmouth to exit foster care with employment and personal finance skills. 
• Victors, $7,500 to help fund a youth baseball program for children ages nine to 15 living in Norfolk public housing who have never played baseball. 
• Visions of Truth Community Development Corporation, $10,000 to help fund Strive, an alternative education program that integrates academics, remedial learning techniques, service learning and behavior treatment to high school students in Portsmouth and the Western Branch section of Chesapeake.
• WHRO, $4,000 to help fund the Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Program at the Clarence Cuffee Library and Community Center and the Park Place Neighborhood Community Center in Norfolk. 
• YMCA SHR-First Tee, $15,000 to help fund First Tee in Hampton Roads, a program to help promote good habits and healthy lifestyles through the game of golf to low-income students ages six to 14 enrolled in the YMCA Tutorial and Recreation Afterschool Club for Kids (TRACK) in Norfolk. 
• YMCA SHR-Great Bridge, $10,000 to help fund Adopt a Neighborhood, a program serving children living in public housing by providing swim lessons, character development and mentoring to help prevent at-risk children from drowning.
• YWCA SHR, $15,000 to help fund YWCA KIDS, programs that are designed to eliminate latch-key situations in Norfolk.

 

The Beach Fund awarded $15,000 in grants in August 2011 to three nonprofit organizations working to improve educational outcomes for children (birth to age 9) in the Lake Edward neighborhood of Virginia Beach. Grant recipients are:

• Horizons Hampton Roads, $5,000 for literacy, educational and cultural enrichment for Lake Edward children during a summer enrichment program for low income         children held at nearby Chesapeake Bay Academy.
• Seton Youth Shelters, $2,500 for its street outreach van to provide food, clothing, hygiene items and other assistance for children in the Lake Edward neighborhood.
• Virginia Beach Educational Foundation - Up to $7,500 for the Eagles Excel in     Education program to help Lake Edward families support their children’s education in partnership with the Virginia Beach Community Development Corporation.

Click here for information on applying for grants from either the Community Leadership Partners or the Beach Fund.