Community Foundation awards spring grants
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ZANESVILLE - The Muskingum County Community Foundations has awarded $78,308 to 32 organizations and projects in spring grant awards.
Additionally, the Longaberger Family Quality of Life Fund through the foundation has awarded $18,000 to Transitions of Muskingum County for operational support and $10,000 to establish the Muskingum County Child s Advocacy Center. Transitions provides trauma informed direct services for victims of domestic violence.
Grant recipients were:
Adamsville Boy Scout Troop 122 - $3,035 for five Eagle Scout projects
Animal Shelter Society - $1,600 for Catapalooza spay and neuter clinic
Bethel Community Center - $3,750 for the summer program
Chandlersville Community Building - $1,450 for new gutters
WHIZ News
Straker Foundation Approves $1.6 Million in Grants in Muskingum County
Family
members and the community honored J. William Straker at a memorial service on
Saturday, May 1, 2021. That afternoon, the Trustees of the J.W. & M.H.
Straker Charitable Foundation met to approve grant awards totaling almost 1.6
million dollars.
Straker
Trustees are the children and grandchildren of J. William and Mary Helen
Straker, who established the Foundation.
The J.W.
& M.H. Straker Charitable Foundation will announce a smaller competitive
grant cycle for Fall 2021.
Grants
awarded in the Spring cycle include the following:
$10,017.00
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Zanesville and the Muskingum County YMCA; enrolling