WCCF awards more than $44,000 in grants to charities
Cellist Julie Albers will join the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra as a soloist Sept. 22 at the Capitol Theatre.
The Washington County Community Foundation (WCCF) has completed its Designated Field of Interest grant cycle for 2016. A total of $44,125 in grants was awarded as follows:
Abernathy Fund for Conservation:
• Washington & Jefferson College received $2,000 for water quality monitoring at the Abernathy Field Station and the Connecting Children to Nature Through Photography program.
• Washington County Watershed Alliance received $500 for the Chartiers Creek Water Trail Feasibility Study.
Arts Fund – The LeMoyne Community Center received $10,000 for the Threading Through Our History quilting project.
Canonsburg Community Fund – Metro Pittsburgh Youth for Christ received $100 for the Armory Youth Mentoring Equine Therapy program.
Craig Gnagey Memorial Fund – Washington Hospital Foundation received $750 for the Washington School District ECHO program.
Hart History Fund – Donora Historical Society received $1,000 for glass plate negative development for their Teaching with Primary Sources program.
McBride-McMaster Fund – Washington County Historical Society received $4,000 for the Schneider’s Fort and Hughes Log House historical information displays.
James C. Miller Memorial Fund – Washington Hospital Foundation received $150 for the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training program.
Mother’s Fund:
• Greater Washington County Food Bank received $10,000 for the Country Thrift Market project.
• CASA for Kids received $3,000 for the CASA Reporting data system.
• Washington Hospital Foundation received $2,000 for the Washington School District ECHO program.
• Metro Pittsburgh Youth for Christ received $1,000 for the Armory Youth Mentoring Equine Therapy program.
Neighborhood Drug Awareness Corps Fund – Washington Hospital Foundation received $1,000 for the Finding the Youth Voice focus groups on the Washington County heroin epidemic.
Joseph Perkins Fund – Washington Hospital Foundation received $100 for the Teen Outreach ECHO program in Burgettstown School District.
Community Endowment for Peters Township – Meals on Wheels of Peters Township received $2,000 for the Angel Food Fund to assist with meal costs for lower-income clients.
Judge Samuel Rodgers Fund – Literacy Council of Southwestern Pennsylvania received $250 for News For You subscriptions for adult learners.
Vitullo Family Fund – Metro Pittsburgh Youth for Christ received $150 for the Armory Youth Mentoring Equine Therapy program.
Washington County Youth Conservation Camp Fund – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh received $125 for conservation education at the site-based mentoring program.
Women of Philanthropy Giving Circle:
• The Village of FPC received $3,000 for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Early Childhood program.
• Literacy Council of Southwestern Pennsylvania received $1,750 for the English as a Second Language Children’s Literacy program.
• City Mission received $1,000 for 12-Step workbooks for the drug and alcohol prevention program.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh received $250 for conservation education at the site-based mentoring program
Since it began operations in December of 1995 , WCCF has cumulatively awarded more than $7,000,000 in grants and scholarships to improve the quality of life in Washington County.
For more information, visit the WCCF website, www.wccf.net.