$879,725 — that’s how much the Foundation has donated to local Kern County nonprofits this year. We covered some of this on our FB page and our website’s home page, but I thought I would use this space to discuss a little bit more about all that the Foundation has been up to throughout 2015.
Information about our Spring & Fall funding cycles — including the amounts specific organizations were awarded and what that money funded — can be found on our website. Along with our two cycles, the Foundation also hands out what we call non-cycle grant awards. These usually involve literacy, animal welfare, or environmental or historical preservation. Some of these awards were discussed earlier in this blog, here and here.
The following are some more non-cycle grant awards we handed out in 2015:
•$1,500 to the KCSOS Ed. Services Foundation, for the Baker Book Education Project.
•$5,000 to First Book Bakersfield, to purchase new books for Bakersfield students.
•$5,950 to Hoffmann Hospice, for their Project Journey Home project.
•$6,000 to the Kawaiisu Language and Cultural Center, for their Go Native! program.
•$10,000 to Lightwave Education, to help fund their summer educational program.
•$12,000 to DonorsChoose.org, to help fund Pre-K to 2nd grade literacy projects in Kern County schools.
•$15,000 to Ready to Start, for their 2015 summer Ready to Start program.
•$15,000 to the United Way of Kern County, to help fund the Early Childhood Literacy Partnership project.
•$16,453 to Pet Match Maker California, for the material and instillation of a large Dry Creek Mini Barn, part of their overall shelter project.
•$27,350 in matching funds to the Bakersfield Museum of Art, for a new
wall at 19th and R Streets.
•$44,000 to the Kern County Museum Foundation, to help fund the Bakersfield Californian Foundation Archive Building.
The Foundation looks forward to another exciting year in 2016. Happy Holidays everyone!
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