2022 Athens Federal Foundation Grant Recipients

Organization

Amount

Funding Purpose

Helping Hands Ministry

$10,000

Materials and supplies for home repairs for homeowners who are disabled and those below poverty line

The Grace House in Athens

$5,000

Homeless shelter services in Athens

Coordinated Charities, Inc

$4,000

Assistance for homeless with rent and utility deposits

Niota United Methodist Church (Christian Co-Workers Children's Aid)

$4,500

Purchase of food for weekend meals program for needy children of Niota Elementary School

St. Mark's AME Zion Church Food Pantry

$3,500

Assistance with purchase of supplies and food for distribution through the food pantry program 

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Table Graces

$10,000

Assistance with community food pantry services

Love Thy Neighbor Project (of Tennessee Wesleyan University)

$15,000

Support for Back sacks program, community food pantry and student food pantry

Wesley Memorial UMC - Etowah Community Food Pantry

$7,500

Purchase food to be distributed through the Etowah Community Food Pantry

Nourish One Child - Outreach of Keith Memorial UMC

$5,000

Weekend meal program for needy students at Athens City Schools

CASA Monroe

$7,500

Recruiting, training and support of volunteer advocate program

CASA of Bradley County

$5,000

Recruiting, training and support of volunteer advocate program

CASA Corridor of East TN

$7,500

Recruiting, training and support of volunteer advocate program

The HOPE Center, Inc.

$4,000

Partial funding of Darkness to Light community based child sex abuse prevention initiative and transitional housing/sexual abuse center

Monroe Co Health Council

$4,000

Funding for Emergency assistance to Monroe Co. residents displaced due to domestic violence and transportation assistance through Monroe County Cancer Fund

Good Faith Clinic, Inc.

$5,000

Funding for 2023 Community Health Fair

Straightway Ministry Inc.

$5,000

Assist with costs associated with return to work programs

Miracle Lake

$25,000

Property acquisition to expand facilities

Women at the Well

$5,000

Sponsorship of tuition costs of Rehabilitation Program

McMinn County Emergency Rescue Squad

$5,700

Purchase of Rescue Equipment

Monroe County Rescue Squad

$5,000

Purchase of Rescue Equipment

McMinn County Educational and Community Foundation

$4,000

McMinn County Imagination Library

Polk County Friends of the Library - Imagination Library

$2,000

Polk County Imagination Library

Sweetwater Education Foundation

$2,000

Monroe County Imagination Library

Let's Read 20

$3,000

Purchase of books to be distributed through Let's Read 20 program

Athens-McMinn Family YMCA

$25,000

Funding for Y-CAP program and Camp Niota

Tri-County Center

$4,100

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training and Supplies

E.G. Fisher Public Library

$1,500

Furniture for teen space

Boys and Girls Club of the Ocoee Region

$5,000

Start-up equipment and supplies at new Etowah City Schools Boys and Girls Club site

Special Grant Program for McMinn County Public Schools

$17,000

Distribution to support student needs of $1,000 in each public school in McMinn County administered by the McMinn County Community and Education Foundation

Athens-McMinn Family YMCA

$25,000

Special Grant funding for Locker Room renovation project

Tennessee Wesleyan University

$25,000

Special Development Grant