VCCF Grants Aid Area Projects

Various local projects have received assistance recently via grants from the Valley County Community Foundation. A total of $16,067 has been awarded in all. The grants are intended for projects assisting young people, the elderly, and infrastructure, explained Glasgow’s Sam Waters, who chairs the Grant Committee. The following groups have received funding thus far: $2,000 to the Allies of Scouting to purchase roofing materials for the dining hall/main lodge and the rest room at Boy Scout Park on the Missouri River, $2,000 to the City-County Library to purchase window blinds for the main reading area on the first floor, $2,641 to Glasgow School District to provide training for a middle school teacher in the medical detection curriculum of the STEM program, $800 to Hinsdale Public School to pay the summer lease (toward purchase) on a vending machine that provides healthy snacks for students, $2,000 to the Nashua Senior Citizens Association to purchase and install a commercial dishwasher at the Senior Center, $3,000 to St. Raphael’s Parish to purchase 200 steel folding chairs and four storage dollies for the chairs used in the Parish Center gymnasium, and $3,627 to Valley View Home to help replace the roof on the 1969 portion of the building. VCCF began giving grants in 1999 and since then has awarded 119 grants totaling $160,747. Grants are awarded each spring to organizations with a 501(c)3 IRS designation, as well as government and educational entities. The Foundation itself is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization affiliated with the Montana Community Foundation. More information is available at valleycountycf.net or by calling board member Jean Carlson at 526-3245.