Akwesasne Boys & Girls Club is a Adirondack Foundation grant recipient.
(Provided photo â Lisa Godfrey) Generous Acts grants are helping to improve educational pathways through literacy programs for adults and families, summer enrichment programs for teens, community college recruitment efforts for non-traditional students, improving resources for preschoolers and more. Grant recipients: Adirondack Sky Center, Akwesasne Boy & Girls Club, AuSable Valley Central School District, Bing Bang Boom (Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation), Bluseed Studios, CFES Brilliant Pathways, Champlain Children’s Learning Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension for Franklin County, Crown Point Central School, CVES/Clinton-Essex-Warren-Washington BOCES, Depot Theatre, Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES, Lake Placid Central School District, Literacy Volunteers of Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties, Mountain Lake PBS, North Country Community College Foundation, Northwood School, Plattsburgh Family YMCA, Pl
Jan 6, 2021 LAKE PLACID Since March, Adirondack Foundation and its many funding partners have awarded nearly $1.2 million through 175 grants to nonprofits, schools and community-based organizations specifically toward COVID-19 response. This rapid-response community assistance is thanks to a coalition of corporate, philanthropic and nonprofit partners supporting local frontline organizations many of which serve people who are disproportionately affected when crisis strikes. With more than $1.3 million raised, grants are being deployed across the Adirondack region, helping to serve tens of thousands of people experiencing hardship from the social and economic impacts of the pandemic, and supporting a variety of community needs. These emergency-response and longer-term, deeper investment grants fall into the following broad categories.
Dec 23, 2020
Grant assistance from Adirondack Foundation and its funding partners helped AdkAction work with partners to assemble and distribute emergency food packages filled with farm-fresh food to families and individuals whose circumstances made it difficult for them to buy food. In this image, Maeve Brammer is handing off packages assembled at Hub on the Hill in Essex.
(Erika Bailey, courtesy Adirondack Foundation) LAKE PLACID Adirondack Foundation, and its many funding partners, have awarded nearly $1.2 million since March through 175 grants to nonprofits, schools, and community-based organizations specifically toward COVID-19 response. This rapid-response community assistance is thanks to a coalition of corporate, philanthropic, and nonprofit partners supporting local front-line organizations many of which serve people who are disproportionately affected when crisis strikes.