Community Leadership Partners and Beach Fund Grants

The Community Leadership Partners and the Beach Fund award grants once a year to nonprofit organizations working in key focus areas selected by members. For 2010 both groups chose to work with children.

The Community Leadership Partners awarded $200,000 in grants in August 2010 to 12 organizations working to improve educational outcomes for Hampton Roads preschoolers. Grant 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.

 

The Beach Fund awarded $19,250 in grants in August 2010 to four 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 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 in the Lake Edward neighborhood.
• Virginia Beach Education Foundation, $5,000 for the Eagles Excel in Education 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.

The Community Leadership Partners will announce its grant recipients soon.

Click here for information on applying for grants from either the Community Leadership Partners or the Beach Fund in 2011.