Henderson County News: LOCAL BRIEFS: Plant sale, foundation grants, city boards hendersonvillelightning.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hendersonvillelightning.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Community Grant program is made possible by generous donors who have contributed unrestricted and broadly defined interest area gifts. The dollars are used to respond to current community challenges and to embrace emerging opportunities. The following Community Grant awards were recently made:
• $10,000 to Conserving Carolina to support strategic planning
• $6,300 to Creating a Family to support the development and distribution of resource kits to
grandparent-led families in Henderson County
• $3,800 to Environmental Educators of North Carolina to support Henderson County teachers in attending the Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance conference
• $10,000 to Henderson County Cooperative Extension to support the renovation and transformation of the kitchen in the Extension Center into a teaching kitchen.
Over $182K in grants awarded to Henderson County nonprofits, other local organizations blueridgenow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blueridgenow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
July 8, 2021
Russell Pliley, standing next to a helicopter at a base in Diyarbakir, Turkey, is an Air Force veteran and Western geographic information science student. He received an $1,000 Operation Hat Trick Military Scholarship in November 2020.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. Western Michigan University’s outstanding efforts in aiding the recovery of wounded U.S. combat service members and veterans has been recognized with a donation from a national nonprofit organization.
Operation Hat Trick (OHT) named Western as a finalist for its 2021 Excellence in Service Award and will make a donation to The Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund on the University’s behalf.
Western was one of seven finalists that included Texas A&M University, University of Arizona, George Mason University, North Dakota State University, Utah State University and Clemson University. These schools were chosen based on their efforts to fully integrate OHT on and off their campuses through a presence in their bookstores an
NDSU Named Finalist for Operation Hat Trick Excellence in Service Award gobison.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gobison.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.