Harford organizations receive more than $21,000 in grants from Close Foundation The Albert P. Close Foundation has been busy over the past several weeks awarding $21,800 in grants to eight Harford County organizations. Recipients of grants this year include The Samaritan Women, Chesapeake Therapeutic Riding, Center for Educational Opportunity/Alternative Education and PBIS at Alternative Education, Trinise Jones Summer Camp/Inner County Outreach, the Homecoming Project, Addiction Connections Resource, the SAGE Group and Arrow Child & Family Ministries. |
Funding News $530,000 in College Grants Awarded to Virginia Colleges and UniversitiesThe philanthropic branch of the Richmond-based Dominion Resources, the Dominion Foundation, has recently announced plans to donate $530,000 to sixteen Virginia colleges and universities. The grants are a part of Dominion’s Higher Educational Partnership program, which works to coordinate the company’s support of higher education institutions with its current employee needs. Dominion regularly accepts applications for its grants, which can total up to $50,000, from programs that are aligned with the company’s goal of developing a skilled work force in areas deemed critical to the success of the company. Some examples of educational programs that would be considered important to Dominion Resources are business, engineering, energy production, environmental science, and information technology. Read More > Community foundation awards $109,000 in grantsEASTON — The Mid-Shore Community Foundation presented $109,000 in grants to 23 area nonprofits in the spring 2013 cycle of grant awards. The foundation accepts grant applications twice each year with an Oct. 1 and April 1 deadline for consideration. The foundation's Grants Committee reviewed and approved 13 of these grants; the remaining 10 grants were awarded by the advisors to the George B. Todd Fund, a component fund of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. Read More >TESTIMONIALS |
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