2020 Athens Federal Foundation Grant Recipients |
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Organization |
Amount |
Funding Purpose |
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Homeless Management of Monroe County |
$2,000 |
Assistance for homeless and individuals/families or those at risk of losing their homes |
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Helping Hands Ministry |
$10,000 |
Materials and supplies for home repairs for homeowners who are disabled and those below poverty line |
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The Grace House in Athens |
$5,000 |
Homeless shelter services in Athens |
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Family Promise of Bradley County |
$5,000 |
Project Home - Rent and Mortgage Assistance Program |
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Niota United Methodist Church (Christian Co-Workers Children's Aid) |
$3,000 |
Purchase of food for weekend meals program for needy children of Niota Elementary School |
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Food Pantry and Thrift Store of Tellico Plains |
$3,000 |
Assist in the mission of feeding and providing for the needy of Tellico Plains |
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Coordinated Charities, Inc. |
$3,660 |
Assistance for homeless with rent and utility deposits |
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Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland |
$5,000 |
Home construction and materials costs |
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Etowah Community Food Pantry Wesley Memorial UMC |
$3,000 |
Purchase food to be distributed through the Etowah Community Food Pantry |
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The Caring Place |
$5,000 |
Purchase of food to be distributed to the food-insecure of the Bradley County |
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Grace & Mercy Ministries |
$5,000 |
Purchase of food to be distributed to the food-insecure of McMinn County |
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Love Thy Neighbor Project (of Tennessee Wesleyan University) |
$5,000 |
Weekend meal program for needy students at McMinn County Schools |
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Nourish One Child - Outreach of Keith Memorial UMC |
$3,000 |
Weekend meal program for needy students at Athens City Schools |
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CASA Monroe |
$5,000 |
Recruiting, training and support of volunteer advocate program |
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CASA of Bradley County |
$5,000 |
Recruiting, training and support of volunteer advocate program |
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CASA Corridor of East Tennessee |
$5,000 |
Recruiting, training and support of volunteer advocate program |
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The H.O.P.E. Center, Inc. |
$4,000 |
Partial funding of Darkness to Light community based child sex abuse prevention initiative |
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Straightway Ministry Inc. |
$5,000 |
Transportation, utilities and maintenance costs associated with return to work programs |
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Miracle Lake |
$7,500 |
Assistance with food budget for addiction treatment program |
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Good Faith Clinic, Inc. |
$5,000 |
Assistance with Community Health Fair |
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New Hope Pregnancy Care Center |
$1,984 |
Assistance with Medical Program Costs |
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McMinn County Emergency Rescue Squad |
$2,500 |
Purchase of Rescue Equipment |
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Sweetwater Education Foundation |
$2,000 |
Monroe County Imagination Library |
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Tri-County Center |
$2,000 |
Purchase of automated external defibrillator (AED) for residential homes |
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Women at the Well |
$3,000 |
Sponsorship of tuition costs of Rehabilitation Program |
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McMinn County Educational and Community Foundation |
$4,000 |
McMinn County Imagination Library |
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Polk County Friends of the Library - Imagination Library |
$2,000 |
Polk County Imagination Library |
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Let's Read 20 |
$3,000 |
Purchase of books to be distributed through Let's Read 20 program |
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Athens-McMinn Family YMCA |
$5,000 |
Funding for Y-Cap program |
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Y-CAP (YMCA Community Action Project) Cleveland |
$4,000 |
Funding for Y-Cap program |
| The House that Mercy Built | $3,000 | Assistance with rehabilitation program costs |
TOTAL Grant Distribution
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$126,644 |
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