2017 Spring Competitive Grants from the Community Fund and Special Funds
Total awarded – $179,500
Afton Historical Society
$2,500 for a capital project-repair steps (Chenango)
Berkshire Community Association
$1,700 for entrance roof repairs (Tioga)
Broome County COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster)
$35,000 for operations (Broome)
Broome County Council of Churches
$15,000 for a technology upgrade (Broome)
Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga-Tioga Outreach Center
$15,000 for the summer pantry and lunch program (Tioga)
Center for Gender, Art, and Culture
$15,000 for a summer public mosaic project for at risk kids (Broome)
Town of Coventry
$12,000 for the Town Hall roof repair (Chenango)
Farm Catskills
$5,000 for a Farm-to-School initiative (Delaware)
Fenton Free Library
$1,100 for the Summer reading program (Broome)
Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center
$12,000 for a Summer art camp for kids (Otsego/Chenango/Delaware)
Greater Oneonta Historical Society
$2,500 for furnishings and preservation materials (Otsego)
Hanford Mills Museum
$5,000 for STEM and STEAM outreach programs to k-8 grades (Otsego)
Huntington Memorial Library
$1,100 for the Digital Entrepreneurship Program (Otsego)
League of Women Voters- Cooperstown
$500 for women’s suffrage anniversary commemoration (Otsego)
Music on the Delaware
$1,000 Traditional House Dance program for students and the community (Delaware)
Newark Valley Historical Society
$4,760 for bridge repairs at the Bement-Billings Historic Site (Tioga)
Otsego County Conservation Association
$5,000 project assisting municipalities in interpreting land use and environmental regulations (Otsego)
The Place-Norwich
$5,000 for the Youth Philanthropy Project (Chenango)
Recess Resources-Cub Care
$15,000 for operating support (Broome)
Richfield Springs Community Center
$15,000 for capital project-carpet replacement (Otsego)
Rural Health Network of SCNY
$5,000 for a pilot project with AmeriCorps to address the rural opioid epidemic(Broome/Delaware/Tioga)
Vestal Public Library
$1,100 for their Native American Festival (Broome)
VINES (Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments)
$5,000 to expand the Farm Share Program to Johnson City and Endicott (Broome)
Walton Chamber of Commerce
$5,000 for Summer Community Concert Series and village beatification project (Delaware)
Wilson Children’s Center
$11,290 for a program enhancement plan (Broome/Delaware)
WSKG Public Media
$14,950 for Southern Tier Journal television program shedding light on the challenges and resources for living in poverty (Broome/Tioga)
2016 Fall Competitive Grants from the Community Fund and Special Funds
Total awarded – $112,546
Action for Older Persons
$14,778 for the Senior health Insurance program (Broome)
Children’s Home of Wyoming Conference
$15,000 to convert classroom space into an in-patient substance use disorder rehabilitation program for adolescents (Broome)
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County
$2,500 for a youth kayak education program (Chenango)
Deposit Foundation
$4,660 for a senior transportation program (Broome/Delaware)
Eric D. Dettenrieder Memorial Fund
$3,000 for athletic programs for disabled youth (Otsego)
EPAC (Endicott Performing Arts Center)
$15,000 for lighting, security and software (Broome)
Huntington Memorial Library
$3,000 for a Media Lab intern (Otsego)
Life is Washable (Magic Paintbrush Project)
$4,990 for athletic programs for disabled youth (Broome)
Regional Science and Discovery Center
$5,500 for a mobile science lab program for Tioga elementary and middle schools
Richfield Springs Community Center
$15,000 for operating support for the Teen Zone program (Otsego)
Richfield Springs Community Center
$1,500 for building improvements (Otsego)
Unatego Central Schools
$9,422 for Phonics for Success to improve elementary reading levels
Village of Walton
$11,850 to update computers and software in police department patrol cars
WSKG Public Media
$13,450 operating support for the Youth Voices Program at Union Endicott Schools Tiger Ventures
2016 Spring Competitive Grants From the Community Fund and Special Funds
Total Awarded – $180,664
Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship
$5,000 for scholarships at Stony Creek Farm Art Camp for children residing in Walton (Delaware)
Chenango County United Way$10,000 for the Community Health Initiative, providing medical and dental care to families in need (Chenango)
Cornell Cooperative Extension
$5,000 to support small farms taking over the operation of Delaware Bounty (Delaware)
The Church Commons
$5,000 for their community playground (Tioga)
Franklin Stock Company
$5,000 to support for their 20th anniversary season (Delaware)
Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways
$5,000 to support Camp CEO program (Broome/Chenango/Delaware/Otsego/Tioga)
Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network
$5,000 for the Rural Health Connections Program (Broome)
New York Council of Non-Profits
$10,000 for the Southern Tier Capacity Building program for non-profits (Broome/Chenango/Delaware/Otsego/Tioga)
Oneonta World of Learning
$6,996 for renovations at their new location (Otsego)
Morris Central Schools
$14,652 for the extended day after school program (Otsego)
RISE-New York
$15,000 for kitchen equipment at the domestic violence shelter (Broome)
Rural Health Network of SCNY
$14,823 for the year-round healthy food access program (Broome/Delaware/Tioga)
Southern Tier Zoological Society
$5,000 for the Binghamton Zoo Entrance Revitalization project (Broome)
SPARE Productions
$2,779 to purchase a keyboard and amplifier for performances (Broome)
St. James Church Lake Delaware
$5,000 for the Our Place Adult Day Respite Center in Delhi (Delaware)
Summer Savoyards
$2,000 for the 2016 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore (Broome)
Tioga County Public Health Department
$4,950 for child passenger safety seat program (Tioga)
Tioga Opportunities
$8,529 for a commercial freezer to support their meals program
United Way of Delaware/Otsego
$2,437 for technology upgrades (Delaware/Otsego)
Village of Oxford Police Department
$3,047 for the Community Recovery Room for their Road to Recovery program (Chenango)
Waverly Free Library
$1,190 for a historic snapshot series in conjunction with the Tioga Historical Society (Tioga)
Walton Little League
$1,500 to replace fencing around the ball field (Delaware)
Walton-A Community That Cares
$3,500 to purchase and install an ice skating rink liner (Delaware)
William B. Ogden Library
$1,200 for The Grant Rogers Project: Tales, Tunes and Traditions from the Western Catskills (Delaware)
Worcester Free Library
$360 for screening and discussion of “Duck Diaries: A Cold War Quest for Friendship Across the Americas (Delaware)
2015 Fall Competitive Grants From the Community Fund and Special Funds
Total Awarded – $136,743
Boys and Girls Club of Binghamton
$4,500 for a summer 2016 camp program (Broome)
CADE (Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship)
$15,000 for phase two of the Communities Creameries Project connecting dairy farmers with new markets (Delaware/Otsego)
Camp Ahwaga
$11,500 for insurance costs for the 2016 camp season (Tioga)
Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga
$10,000 for emergency financial assistance for participants (Tioga)
Deposit Foundation
$10,000 for general operating support (Broome)
Family Enrichment Network
$15,000 to expand an adult literacy program into Tioga County (Tioga)
Jewish Community Center
$4,770 for toddler classroom renovations (Broome)
Liberty Partnership Program
$900 for production of a film highlighting the effect of poverty on students (Broome)
Literacy Volunteers of Broome/Tioga
$15,000 for general operating support (Broome/Tioga)
Otego Elementary School
$2,656 to create a movement lab for K-2 student (Otsego)
Rescue Mission
$2,906 for hygiene kits to distribute at community meal programs (Broome)
Tioga County Boys and Girls Club
$15,000 for general operating support (Tioga)
Tioga Opportunities Department of Aging
$5,000 to support the meals on wheels program (Tioga)
Trinity Church Community Canteen
$2,630 for tables for a community meal program (Broome)
United Presbyterian Church of Binghamton
$9,466 for a community meal coordinator position (Broome)
Walton Theater Preservation Association
$12,415 for historically accurate castings for accessibility ramp (Delaware)
2015 Spring Competitive Grants From the Community Fund and Special Funds
Total Awarded – $192,818
ACCORD
$7,500 for purchase of furniture for conference room and reception area (Broome)
Afton Historical Society
$1,800 restoration of the 1789 deeds for Afton (Chenango)
Broome County COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster)
$35,000 for operations (Broome)
Broome County Council of Churches
$15,000 for the CHOW bus mobile farmer’s market/summer meal program (Broome)
Broome County Library
$1,250 for expansion of the Binghamton Poetry Project (Broome)
Broome County Habitat for Humanity
$11,000 support for the volunteer safety program improvements (Broome)
Coalition for the Homeless of the Southern Tier, Inc.
$1,800 for the no-freeze program providing overnight emergency shelter (Broome)
Family And Children’s Society
$2,500 for inspirational and motivational art for therapy rooms and lobby (Broome)
Grand Gorge Community Action Group
$1,400 for purchase of a watering system for community beautification efforts (Delaware)
Historical Society of the Town of Middletown
$3,500 for support of a foundation repair project (Delaware)
Milford Central School District
$14,971 for a summer Career, Learning, Enrichment and Academic Readiness program (Otsego)
Newark Valley Historical Society
$2,787 material for a stage in the Depot building (Tioga)
Newark Valley Historical Society
$5,234 for architect fees for a capital needs plan development at Bement-Billings farmstead (Tioga)
New Hope Community Church
$2,500 for a week-end backpack food security program for middle and high school students (Delaware)
Opportunities for Delaware
$15,000 for a bus for the Headstart Program (Broome)
Owego Revitalization and Betterment Corporation
$3,933 purchases of bike racks lost in the flood (Tioga)
The Place – Norwich
$5,000 for the youth philanthropy project (Chenango)
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern NY
$1,000 weekend food backpack program for Richfield Springs students (Otsego)
Regional Science and Discovery Center
$3,600 for Pre-K math programs (Tioga)
Richfield Springs Community Center
$15,000 for the PLAY (Positive Lifestyle Activities for Youth) program (Otsego)
Stillwater RTF
$5,000 for playground equipment (Chenango)
Tioga Arts Council
$9,805 for creation of an arts incubator program for local artists (Tioga)
Tioga Opportunities Inc.
$10,000 for support of a family planning program using innovative outreach approaches (Tioga)
Tri-Cities Opera Company
$11,490 to upgrade lighting at Clinton Street building (Broome)
Village of Walton
$2,500 for a summer recreation program (Delaware)
Waverly Free Library
$1,248 for digitization and display of Little League Photos from The 1940’s and 1950’s (Tioga)
Windsor Human Development
$3,000 for food pantry purchases (Broome)
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