Southeast Community Foundations Updates
Alabama
The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham has announced grants totaling $764,000, including eleven grants totaling $158,000 to arts organizations, sixteen grants totaling $120,000 in support of education, seven grants totaling $108,000 to environmental groups, fifteen grants totaling $105,000 to health organizations, seventeen grants totaling $115,000 to organizations providing human services, nine grants totaling $83,000 for community support initiatives, and $75,000 for other initiatives. Recipients include the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham, Pleasant Mount Baptist Church, and the Middle Alabama Agency on Aging.
Florida
The Community Foundation of Sarasota County has announced two hundred and fifty spring scholarships totaling $515,900, raising the total for the year to more than $1.1 million — the third year in a row that the foundation has awarded more than $1 million in scholarships. The awards include scholarships to traditional students as well as adult learners.
Georgia
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has announced grants totaling $765,000 to eleven metro-area organizations through its Common Good Funds. This year marks the second year the foundation has focused on providing general operating support to improve the ability of nonprofits to make a difference and strengthen the sector as a whole. Recipients include the Atlanta Humane Society, Georgia Appleseed, the North Fulton Child Development Association, and the Youth Ensemble of Atlanta.
Louisiana
The Greater New Orleans Foundation has announced that it has established a Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund to support relief efforts in communities in Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and lower Jefferson parishes.
Mississippi
The Hernando-based Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi has received $25,000 from Entergy Mississippi, TradingMarkets.com reports. The gift from the energy company will provide support for the Word on Wheels bookmobile, which makes more than five hundred books available to preschoolers in DeSoto, LaFayette, Panola, Tate, and Tunica counties. Matching gifts will be provided by the Maddox and Phil Hardin foundations, bringing the total to $83,000.
North Carolina
The Lincoln County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Charlotte-based Foundation for the Carolinas, has announced five grants totaling $6,000 to local Lincoln-area nonprofits. The recipients are Carolina Cross Connection, Habitat for Humanity, Hospice & Palliative Care, Lincoln County Public Library, and the North Carolina Symphony.
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South Carolina
The Florence-based Eastern Carolina Community Foundation has established the Pee Dee Disaster Relief Fund to help victims of the recent Darlington tornado and future natural disasters, SC Now reports. The fund will complement the work of other area nonprofits, which it will support with grants across county and jurisdictional lines.
Tennessee
The Nashville-based Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee has announced the fifth round of disaster grants from its Metro Nashville Disaster Response and Tennessee Emergency Response funds to eight local organizations, providing $446,500 in flood relief and restoration services. Awards include $125,000 to the Salvation Army and $100,000 to the South Central Human Resource Agency. To date, more than $2.5 million in flood relief grants has been awarded to sixty-five organizations from the foundation's two disaster funds.
