2024 Athens Federal Foundation Grant Recipients |
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Organization |
Amount |
Funding Purpose |
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McMinn County Education and Community Foundation |
$17,000 |
Fund Compassion Closet to provide clothing and hygiene products to students among 13 schools |
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Tennessee Wesleyan University |
$25,000 |
General Scholarship Fund |
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Athens-McMinn Family YMCA |
$100,000 |
Special grant toward capital campaign to add ADA accessible family locker rooms and other facility upgrades |
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Lee University (English Language Center) |
$3,000 |
Instructors and material for English as a Second Language classes |
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CASA Corridor of East TN |
$6,000 |
Recruitment, screening and training of volunteer advocates for McMinn, Meigs and Rhea Counties |
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CASA of Bradley County |
$6,000 |
Recruitment, screening and training of volunteer advocates for Bradley County area |
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CASA Monroe |
$6,000 |
Recruitment, screening and training of volunteer advocates for Monroe County area |
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The Trousdale School |
$6,000 |
Purchase of iPads for learning, job training and social skills program |
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Morning Star Ministries |
$5,000 |
Health, nutrition, sanitation, food prep, meal planning and budgeting for developmentally/physically disabled clients |
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Tri-County Center |
$5,000 |
Virtual reality experience to develop employment and independent living skills |
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Helping Hands Ministry |
$5,000 |
Building materials for home repairs and access ramp construction for low income homeowners |
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Athens-McMinn Family YMCA |
$20,000 |
Relocation and furnishing of "Child Watch" area to accommodate care for designated age groups |
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Let's Read 20 |
$5,000 |
Purchase of books for children age birth to 3rd grade in McMinn and Meigs Counties |
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Friends of Etowah Carnegie Library |
$3,000 |
Books for accelerated young readers, classic books for older students and audiobooks for Seniors |
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Polk County Friends of the Library |
$2,500 |
Books for Polk County Imagination Library program |
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Monroe County Imagination Library |
$2,000 |
Books for Monroe County Imagination Library program |
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Meigs-Decatur Friends of the Library |
$2,500 |
Books for Meigs County Imagination Library program |
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McMinn County Education and Community Foundation |
$5,200 |
Books for McMinn County Imagination Library program |
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Good Faith Clinic, Inc. |
$5,500 |
Assistance with Community Health Fair in conjunction with Remote Area Medical |
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The Grace House in Athens |
$5,000 |
Assistance with recovery and rehabilitation program costs |
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Women at the Well |
$5,000 |
Assistance with recovery and rehabilitation program costs |
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Miracle Lake |
$25,000 |
Facility improvements for recovery and rehabilitation program |
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Straightway Ministry, Inc. |
$10,000 |
Tuition assistance for clients attending Tennessee College of Applied Technology |
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Set Free Ministries and Programs, Inc. |
$3,000 |
Support of construction of home for drug and alcohol addiction ministry |
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The HOPE Center, Inc. |
$10,000 |
Partial funding for "Darkness to Light" program to support child sex abuse prevention, and transitional housing for domestic violence victims |
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McMinn County Emergency Rescue Squad |
$6,022 |
First Responder grade Automatic External Defibrillators |
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Monroe County Rescue Squad |
$5,000 |
Funds toward purchase of Rescue Operations Mobile Command Trailer |
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St. Paul's Episcopal - Love, Period. |
$5,000 |
Purchase and distribution of feminine hygiene products in schools, parks, YMCA and Boys and Girls Clubs |
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McMinn County 4-H |
$5,000 |
Staff professional development programs and training sessions |
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Love Thy Neighbor Project (of TWU) |
$15,000 |
Food for BackSack program for county schools, campus food pantry, mobile food pantry and thrift store |
| Nourish One Child - Outreach of Keith Memorial UMC | $5,000 | Food for weekend feeding program serving Athens City Schools |
| Etowah Area Senior Citizens, Inc. | $3,000 | Breakfast food program for clients |
| McMinn County Senior Citizens, Inc. | $8,000 | Lunch with Friends program and senior advocate to assist clients with benefit program applications |
| Niota United Methodist Church (Christian Co-Workers Children's Aid) | $3,000 | Food for Niota UMC food pantry |
| Wesley Memorial UMC - Etowah Community Food Pantry | $7,500 | Food for Etowah Community food pantry |
| Grace & Mercy Ministries | $10,000 | Food and supplies for food insecure members of the community |
| Coordinated Charities, Inc. | $5,000 | Food for food pantry |
| St. Paul's Episcopal Church | $5,000 | Food for Table Graces food distribution program |
| New Bethany Missionary Baptist Church | $2,000 | Food for food pantry serving Monroe and McMinn Counties |
TOTAL Grant Distribution
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$372,222 |
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