2015 Community Enrichment Grants

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Countywide

Arts Council of Mendocino County – $5,000
To design a new website for the Arts Council of Mendocino County that restores crucial community services including the county-wide arts event calendar and arts directory.

Anderson Valley

Anderson Valley Teen Center – $5,000
To provide trips to six universities for sophomore and junior high school students in Anderson Valley, which will allow them to obtain pertinent information, experience and encouragement to pursue higher education.

Yorkville Community Benefits Association – $5,000
To furnish a rainwater catchment and storage system that will provide a previously untapped and much needed water supply for firefighting and training in the Yorkville community and greater Anderson Valley.

 Laytonville/Leggett

Laytonville Unified School District – $5,000
To assist with the building of an outdoor classroom, complete with a solar demonstration system, weather monitoring station, rainwater catchment and outdoor sink to enhance renewable resource and garden education opportunities for district students.

North Coast

Comptche Community Organization – $2,500
To purchase a commercial grade refrigerator for use in a commercial grade kitchen allowing rural residents to generate income by producing cottage industry products, and to gather for ceremonies, memorials, and social gatherings.

Safe Passage Family Resource Center – $5,000
For the architectural drawings to build an addition on to the Teen Lounge at Safe Passage, which will provide bathrooms, showers, and a laundry room for the school’s most vulnerable students.

FLOCKworks – $5,000
To consolidate and increase FLOCKworks’ visibility and public recognition by investing in expertise, technology, printed materials, signage and new outreach strategies and events in Mendocino and Fort Bragg.

Gloriana Musical Theatre – $5,000
To install an ADA approved wheelchair lift, to give persons with mobility challenges the opportunity to have full access in Eagles Hall Theatre, including the concessions area, lobby and all restrooms, when attending productions and events.

Mendocino Music Festival Association – $5,000
To design and install a boardwalk to the Tent Concert Hall to improve accessibility for local seniors who will be able to attend rehearsals and concerts free-of-charge with busing from the Redwood Coast Senior Center and Coastal Seniors.

Mendocino Film Festival – $5,000
To build a new website that is more cost effective to operate and allows volunteers to update it as needed, increasing the resources available for operational and programmatic needs.

Round Valley

Bones Pet Rescue – $5,000
To equip a new cat shelter facility that will effectively house and rehabilitate stray cats by removing them from the areas in Round Valley where they pose a health and safety risk.

South Coast

Coastal Seniors – $3,000
To purchase a new, larger refrigerator for the storage of healthy and nutritious congregate dinning meals for seniors at the Point Arena Coastal Senior Center.

Manchester Union Elementary School District – $5,000
To provide student access to up-to-date technology and the internet through the purchase of 13 Lenovo ThinkPad Edge laptop computers and software.

Arena Theater Association – $4,300
To purchase one laptop and two desktop computers along with programs, hardware and backups that will integrate the office computer systems, increase organizational functionality and improve program capability and offerings.

Redwood Coast Fire Protection District – $2,500
To purchase one 5,000 gallon water storage tank to provide the RCFPD with a new district water source, making RCFPD better able to preserve life, the environment and structures in a more efficient and economical way.

Point Arena Lighthouse and Naked Whale Research – $8,000
To provide marine conservation biology educational materials and hands on tools on local whale species within the Whale Watch Room of the Point Arena Lighthouse.

Ukiah Area

North Coast Opportunities – $5,000
To build a community garden greenhouse to increase the availability of needed plant starts for gardeners of the Gardens Project of NCO.

Yoga Mendocino – $900
To purchase an in-house laser printer/copier that will enable Yoga Mendocino to produce its own flyers, thus reducing costs and saving staff time.

Plowshares Peace and Justice Center – $5,000
To support the packaging costs of the recently expanded Meals on Wheels program that now feeds 120 home-bound seniors and veterans five days a week.

Ukiah Players Theatre – $3,800
To develop a strategic plan for UPT, by hiring consultant Catherine Marshall, who will work with UPT board/staff to develop the plan and provide UPT technical assistance in its implementation during the following year.

Ukiah Farmers' Market – $5,000
To provide matching funds of up to $15 per week for customers who use federal food stamp benefits to purchase fruits, vegetables and/or nuts at the Ukiah Farmers Market, effectively supporting both local community members and area farmers.

Ukiah Valley Trail Group – $5,000
To prepare a comprehensive trail plan to guide future trail work at Low Gap Park, improving access to these trails and encouraging more people to exercise outdoors and connect with the unique natural environment in Ukiah.

School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education – $5,000
To implement and train staff to use Salesforce, a world-class, cloud-based data management software platform, to record, track, and manage all participant and donor contacts enabling it to more effectively and efficiently fulfill its mission.

Willits

Frank R. Howard Foundation – $5,000
To provide stipends and materials for master classes to train 12 local co-facilitators who will provide chronic disease management workshops for 80+ residents in Covelo, Laytonville, and Willits.

Seabiscuit Heritage Foundation and Golden Rule Church Association – $10,000
To renovate the historic Carriage House doors along with the vertical column between the doors, to provide a finished look and protection from adverse weather condition for the interior.

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