The New Albany Group Basis not too long ago awarded grants to neighborhood and faculty organizations.
This yr the inspiration reached a milestone, surpassing $20 million in grants since its inception 20 years in the past.
What would possibly shock many is that not all donors are giant contributors, and never all basis grants are for large tasks.
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The inspiration awards scores of grants annually fueled by smaller items from unusual residents.
These are current grants:
LifeCare Alliance: $2,500 from the Ric and Marina Dillon Fund for Meals on Wheels.
Columbus Metropolitan Library: $2,500 from the inspiration to assist a scholar lecture. The inspiration beforehand supported the Columbus Metropolitan Library New Albany department’s guide assortment and homework assist heart.
Fry Out Most cancers: $1,000 from the New Albany Girls’s Community to fund 90 turkeys for households.
Pink Ribbon Ladies: $1,000 from the Barbara LeVeque Fund to assist sufferers battling most cancers and their households.
New Albany Meals Pantry: $10,000 from the Teresa and John Archer Fund and the Redgrave Household Fund to satisfy the necessity with a 96% enhance in meals offered and a 65% enhance in folks served in comparison with pre-pandemic companies. Further grants of $45,000 and $15,000 additionally had been offered.
Wholesome New Albany: $59,000 to assist well being packages. The fund was established by HNA founder Phil Heit to assist and promote well being and wellness.
New Albany Symphony Orchestra: $15,000 with assist from the Teresa and John Archer Fund and different funds. Earlier this yr, the inspiration additionally awarded a $5,000 grant to the orchestra.
New Albany Neighborhood Bridges: $3,960 with assist from the New Albany Girls’s Community to supply 12 highschool college students with laptops.
Buddy Up for Life: $1,500 for adaptive programming for people with Down syndrome. This grant helps the Map Behavior utility, Communications for Life and a Cooking for Life class.
New Albany Youngsters’s Ballet Theatre: $2,500 from the Huntington Fund for neighborhood theater packages.
Form5 Prosthetics: $2116.77 to assist its mission to supply prosthetics for individuals who want them. Form5 produced private protecting tools through the pandemic for native health-care staff and first responders.
Wellbeing Connection: $25,000 by way of the Keith & Cindy Berend Fund to supply expanded mental-health assets to the neighborhood.
Jeanne B. McCoy Group Heart for the Arts: $250,000 annual grant to assist cultural and academic programming for the neighborhood.
Mid-Ohio Meals Collective: $10,000 to assist its capital marketing campaign made in honor of the McCoy Group Service Award honorees, Patti and Steven Steinour.
LifeWise Academy: $25,000 from the Michael and Nanette Triplett Fund to assist a Bible-based character-education class for college students.
New Albany Symphony Orchestra: $1,000 from Charles Dankworth.
New Albany-Plain Native Colleges: $4,000 from the New Albany Girls’s Community to assist scholarships.
New Albany-Plain Native Colleges: $2,100 from Mike Marx to assist the highschool volleyball and hockey groups in appreciation of their volunteer assist for Pelotonia.
Because of all the donors who generously make investments locally towards the betterment of everybody who lives in New Albany.
Mike Marx is a previous New Albany Group Basis board member and a member of the inspiration’s grant committee.
