2016 Grant Recipients
Thank you to all of the organizations that applied for a grant from the High point Community Foundation and congratulations to those awarded funds in 2016.
| Organization | HPCF | Cory McInnis | Violet Hutchens | Total | Purpose of Grant |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater High Point | 7,400.00 | 7,400.00 | Updated technology for offices and staff to enhance operational efficiency | ||
| Guide Posts of Strength | 16,800.00 | 16,800.00 | Program for cancer survivor support | ||
| Guilford Child Development | 11,100.00 | 11,100.00 | Family literacy program for low-income immigrant and refugee mothers and their pre-school children | ||
| Guilford County Cooperative Extension Service | 8,400.00 | 8,400.00 | Garden & nutrition education in classroom, community cooking and summer camps in partnership with recreation centers | ||
| Heal Our Heroes | 14,300.00 | 14,300.00 | Student Veteran Worker to provide PTSD programs to vets at GTCC | ||
| Helping Hands High Point | 37,900.00 | 37,900.00 | Programs to develop short & long term strategies for food insecurity | ||
| High Point Community Against Violence | 32,900.00 | 32,900.00 | Assisting offenders to be job ready leading to self-sufficiency | ||
| High Point LEAP | 1,300.00 | 17,955.00 | 19,255.00 | Provide STEAM programming in the Southside community | |
| Oak View Elementary School | 22,300.00 | 22,300.00 | Capital request for interactive classroom projectors | ||
| Operation Xcel | 17,300.00 | 17,300.00 | Provide early intervention/prevention services for problem youth | ||
| Reading Connections | 11,900.00 | 11,900.00 | Family literacy program at Oak Hill Elementary School | ||
| Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of High Point | 33,600.00 | 33,600.00 | Capital request for small bus to meet transportation needs | ||
| Salvation Army of High Point | 21,600.00 | 21,600.00 | Provide financial assistance to homeless families facing housing barriers | ||
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC | 18,700.00 | 18,700.00 | Capacity building by providing coolers & freezers to partner agencies | ||
| Special Olympics North Carolina | 4,700.00 | 4,700.00 | Athletic outreach for individuals with intellectual disabilities | ||
| Union Hill Elementary | 12,400.00 | 11,845.00 | 24,245.00 | Program to increase accessibility to reading proficiency program with laptops impacting 500 students | |
| West End Ministries | 28,000.00 | 28,000.00 | Leslie’s House housing stabilization program for homeless women | ||
| World Relief Corporation | 8,000.00 | 8,000.00 | Capital request for fencing and irrigation to increase the capacity of the refugee community garden | ||
| YWCA | 16,400.00 | 16,400.00 | Coordinate nutrition & cooking education classes to eat healthy on a budget | ||
| Total | 325,000.00 | 11,845.00 | 17,955.00 | 354,800.00 |