NEWS 2016
Barbara J. Buchanan
Mini-grants Awards from the Barbara J. Buchanan Fund
February 25, 2016
Greater Pike Community Foundation announced the winners of five $1,000 ‘mini-grants’ for not-for-profit organizations in the greater Pike County area.
Funding for program comes from the Barbara J. Buchanan Fund at Greater Pike Community Foundation, a donor-directed fund established in 2014.
“We are grateful to Barbara for her generosity. Not only will these grants provide much-needed funds to non-profits in our community, but it also will continue the Foundation’s gift giving through a competitive application process,” said Jim Pedranti, who serves as Board Chair for Greater Pike Community Foundation.
Mini-grants Award Winners
Grants have been awarded to the following organizations:
- Black Bear Film Festival to fund a new initiative to attract young filmmakers, artists and film goers;
- GAIT Therapeutic Riding Center to help youth to become connected with each other, adults and other living beings;
- Lacawac Sanctuary and Biological Field Station to provide Pike County students with hands-on and water quality watershed science lessons;
- Pike County Historical Society to fund its internship program; and
- Center for Developmental Disabilities in Pike County to support and enhance the growing literacy program at the Center.
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Barbara Buchanan stated, “Congratulations. I am pleased to be giving to five organizations whose aims and goals are most commendable and worthy of this monetary gift.”
Greater Pike Community Foundation’s slogan is “For good, forever.” The foundation was established to enable generous individuals, families and local businesses to maximize their charitable support through organized, targeted community philanthropy.
There is, perhaps, no better return on an investment than witnessing the profound difference a gift can make within one’s local community—in the lives of friends and neighbors—and knowing that these results have permanence and will benefit future generations.
The Foundation provides that permanent and personal way to give back to the region so many of us love and have worked so hard to nurture and maintain.
Gifts to the foundation, or the establishment of a donor-directed fund, will provide support to those local programs and non-profit organizations that are most important to the donor.
