BUCYRUS — Since the coronavirus pandemic emerged in March, The Community Foundation for Crawford County has awarded COVID-19 Emergency Response grants and some regular competitive grants to local charitable organizations and municipalities.
These awards totaled $322,644 and included the following recipients, according to a press release issued by Foundation President Lisa Workman.
Workman noted that COVID-19 Emergency Response grants were awarded to the following entities:
• Bucyrus Outreach and Restoration Network (BORN) — $10,000 towards emergent housing, prescriptions, work readiness, barrier removal and administrative costs
• Crawford County Community Concert Association — $5,000 relief support towards the booking of performers for future concerts
• Emmanuel’s Bread — $12,500 for Crestline Schools Weekend Food Backpack Program and Emergency Food Pantry
• Humane Society Serving Crawford County — $1,000 towards operational funds
• Avita Health Foundation — $10,000 for pandemic related health care preparation and services
• YMCA of Bucyrus-Tiffin, Inc. — $10,000 for relief efforts for childcare
• Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio — $1,000 for meals for Crawford County guest families
• Galion Community Center YMCA — $2,800 towards pandemic child care operational funds
• Father’s Heart Healing His Hands Extended Soup Kitchen — $1,500 for two new refrigerators for food pantry
• Crestline Historical Society — $911 for Directors and Officers Insurance
• Galion Historical Society — $1,800 for operational funds
• Prevailing Word Ministry in Motion — $3,000 for rent, utilities and food for families
• Crestline St. Joseph Catholic School — $1,500 for awning protection for those waiting to enter building during temperature and mask checks
• Crawford County Public Health — $500 for pandemic thermometers
• Family and Community Services — $1,400 for iPads for RSVP volunteers virtually mentoring Galion Middle School students
• Bucyrus Backpack Program — $2,000 for food items for weekend meals for qualified students attending Bucyrus, Wynford, Colonel Crawford and Fairway Preschool
• #Giving2sdayNOW — $25,000 awarded to participating non-profit organizations to help cover operational costs at no cost to them
Competitive Grants went to the following:
• Village of Crestline — $30,000 as a last dollars raised matching grant for swimming pool repairs
• American Red Cross — $3,326 for new blood scales for blood collections in Crawford County and $5,100 for financial assistance for Crawford County disaster victims
• Alpha Recovery 12-Step Program — $1,316 for upgrades to three computer work stations
• North Central State College Foundation — $9,339 to provide graduate coursework for one high school teacher to become dual credentialed and teach at the NCSC Crawford Success Center
• Galion Community Center YMCA — $2,833 for two first aid/CPR/AED training kits
• Wynford Local School District — $2,110 towards new Weatherbug station
• Avita Health Foundation — $10,000 towards capital projects at Avita Health Bucyrus
• Crawford Partnership — $50,000 towards the Freese Center
• Crawford Works — $30,000 for facilitators, coaches and workshop materials to assist program participants in achieving economic self-sufficiency through employment
• YMCA of Bucyrus-Tiffin, Inc. — $50,000 towards pool repair
• #Giving2sday — $25,000 to award funds participating in the Foundation’s annual fundraiser, distributed on a prorated basis
A Special Recognition Grant was awarded to the following organization:
• $500 to the Colonel Crawford School Endowment Fund
Grants from the Emergency Fund for Food Pantries went to the following:
• First Baptist Church – New Hope Community Church Food Pantry – $1,000
• Bucyrus United Methodist Church of God’s Open Table and God’s Open Pantry — $1,000
• New Day Ministries Food Pantry — $1,000
• Salvation Army — $1,000
• St. Paul United Methodist Church Food Pantry — $1,000
• Prevailing Word Ministry in Motion Food Pantry — $500
• St. John’s Lutheran Church Food Pantry — $1,000
• Galion Grace Brethren Church Gifts of Love Pantry — $3,000
Workman said the first competitive grant cycle deadline for 2021 is Dec. 31, 2020, with grants to be awarded in the spring. The Foundation will be keeping its COVID-19 Emergency Response Grant application available in 2021 as well.
Non-profit organizations receiving grants from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act being administered by the Foundation will be announced soon, Workman noted.