Maria Flete, a Christian Center of Park City food bank employee, left, and Jane Hamilton, a sales associate at the CCPC, assemble a box of various groceries at the Center’s food bank last March. The Christian Center was the recipient of a $200,000 grant from the Park City Community Foundation’s Community Relief Fund.
Park Record file photo
Park City Community Foundation announced its latest round of grant recipients for its COVID-19 Community Response Fund last week. The $500,000 in assistance provided to area nonprofits is meant to help those impacted by the pandemic to stay in their homes, care for their children, seek medical care and more.
Feb 15, 2021
For the third time since the beginning of the pandemic, philanthropic leaders in Cattaraugus County helped facilitate the distribution of microgrants from the WNY COVID-19 Community Fund Response Fund to organizations working on the front lines to provide relief to those most impacted by the ongoing pandemic, culminating in 36 grants totaling $45,000.
The Western New York COVID-19 Community Response Fund was created by the philanthropic community to support nonprofits addressing immediate needs in response to the COVID-19 crisis in the eight counties of Western New York.
In the prior rounds of grantmaking, the WNY Fund’s microgrant program issued $34,000 in relief funding to the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, which acted as the fiscal agent to distribute grants to organizations providing needed services to vulnerable and impacted populations.
Stephanie Bowes said the difficulties of transitioning her two elementary-school-aged sons to e-learning were stressful enough to make her cry some nights.
Cutting back her hours at work to be home with them during the week, figuring out how to use the virtual learning system and making one laptop work for the two boys were all challenges Bowes had to overcome when schools closed in March last year.
“We weren’t going to bed until 10 o’clock at night,” Bowes said. “One would do a little bit. Then the other one. They were alternating back and forth. So some days we didn’t go to bed until about 10 trying to do the work and navigating their system.”
MARQUETTE, MI The COVID-19 Community Response Fund, a collaboration of the Community Foundation of Marquette County and United Way of Marquette County, recently granted more $35,000 to 23 Marquette County nonprofits. The grants were given as “phase two” of the fund, supporting operational expenses for local nonprofits.
The COVID-19 Community Response Fund volunteer committee met weekly and biweekly since March 2020 to establish the fund, review applications and quickly disperse grants as part of phase one. More than $88,000 in grants were given in the first phase, supporting basic needs such as food for children and seniors and protective equipment for front-line workers and volunteers.
COVID-19 Community Response Fund grants $35k to 23 Marquette County nonprofits
MARQUETTE The COVID-19 Community Response Fund, a collaboration of the Community Foundation of Marquette County and United Way of Marquette County, recently granted over $35,000 to 23 Marquette County nonprofits. These grants were given as “phase two” of the fund, supporting operational expenses for local nonprofits.
The COVID-19 Community Response Fund volunteer committee met weekly and biweekly since March 2020 to establish the fund, review applications, and quickly disperse grants as part of phase one. The fund distributed over $88,000 in grants in phase one, supporting basic needs such as food for children and seniors and protective equipment for front-line workers and volunteers, among many other requests.