Now that the Foundation’s Fall cycle has come to a close (check out our website to see who won those awards), we wanted to highlight some of our non-cycle grants, given out throughout the year. Below, are these grantees, the amounts awarded to them, and the projects funded.
• $10,000 to United Way of Kern County, to help fund their Early Childhood Literacy/Development Partnership project.
• $10,000 to Licks for Love, for their Positive Behavior, Intervention and Support (PBIS) school program.
• $5,000 to Kern Athletic Fencing Foundation, to help fund the Smart Fencing for Downtown Bakersfield program.
• $5,000 to California State Old-Time Fiddlers Association, District 3 to help sponsor the 40th Annual “Fiddlin’ Down the Tracks” Fiddle Contest.
• $4,000 to Pet Match Maker California, for a wash station to groom their rescue animals, and its hookup.
• $3,355 to Have a Heart Humane Society, for the purchase of an IMARC Pet Tag Machine.
• $3,000 to Hoffmann Hospice, for their Heart Art Camp, which will help 40 children, ages 7 to 17, work through their grief of losing a loved one.
• $705 to Advancing Parenting for their partnership with Golden Empire Transit, which will allow them to place bumper stickers of parenting tips on the back of 50 GET buses and shuttles.
• $250 to the Girl Scouts of Central California South, for their Kindness Academy program.
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