June 14, 2011

Twice a year, the BAMAWorks Fund in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF) awards gifts through a competitive grant cycle.

CACF Tuesday announced the following 50 Bama Works grants as recommended by Dave Matthews Band in support of non-profits in the Charlottesville area:

1. African American Teaching Fellows of Charlottesville-Albemarle – $6,000 to recruit and support African American college students who are working to become licensed teachers and employed in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County public schools.

2. Albemarle County Public Schools (Mary Carr Greer Elementary School) – $4,000 for the creation of a mosaic mural art project to bring together diverse Greer families and the larger Charlottesville community.

3. Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP) – $10,000 to support the Emergency Home Repair Program that performs minor yet essential repairs for impoverished families in Albemarle and Charlottesville.

4. Ash Lawn Opera Festival – $10,000 for a partnership with the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra to produce a family holiday opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, with related educational programs in the local public schools.

5. Benjamin Hair Just Swim for Life Foundation – $7,500 to raise awareness of the need for swimming safety and to provide basic swimming skills to at-risk children.

6. Blue Ridge Area Food Bank – $10,000 for the Mobile Food Pantry to expand its services to deliver nutritious food to the underserved in southern Albemarle, Buckingham, and Nelson counties.

7. Camp Holiday Trails - $5,000 to support the Pursuing Hope Campership program that provides financial assistance to youth with chronic illnesses from the Charlottesville area.

8. Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries – $5,000 to support the Afterschool Tutoring Program for kindergarten -8th grade students in the Fifeville neighborhood.

9. CACF – John D. Marr Educational Fund – $3,000 to increase scholarship grants to $10,000 in 2011-12 for former Charlottesville Lane Baseball League players to attend college.

10. Charlottesville and University Symphony Society – $2,000 to support free youth concerts to students in Charlottesville and the surrounding counties and introduce fourth and fifth graders to live orchestral music in an age-appropriate setting.

11. Charlottesville Waldorf School – $8,000 to complete the school’s orchestra room for middle school orchestra, sectionals, and individual orchestra practice by installing acoustical flooring and three instrument storage racks.

12. Chesapeake Bay Foundation – $10,000 to support the Virginia Watershed Education Program, which delivers hands-on outdoor education opportunities for students and teachers throughout Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay watershed.

13. Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage – $4,000 to partner with area property owners to restore wetlands and plant buffers that will improve water quality and increase habitat for wildlife.

14. Church of Our Saviour for Nursing Homes Swing! – $4,000 to bring live music to area nursing and assisted living homes.

15. Crescent Theatre Company (Kid Pan Alley) – $7,500 to lead an intergenerational songwriting residency, bringing together Boys & Girls Club members with older adults from the community through JABA.

16. The Edith and Theodore Roosevelt Pine Knot Foundation – $9,000 to purchase and install a composting toilet restroom to facilitate visits to Pine Knot, Theodore Roosevelt’s former wilderness retreat.

17. Elisabeth Aiken Nolting Charitable Foundation (Brackett’s Farm) – $5,600 to grow vegetables in large quantities for the Louisa County Food Bank.

18. Elk Hill – $10,000 to support Education for Employment, a residential program for at-risk students referred by the court system from the Charlottesville area to help them choose career areas based on their interests, strengths, and abilities and to provide them with work experience and marketable skills.

19. Field School of Charlottesville – $6,500 for a full scholarship to be given to an at-need Charlottesville-area boy.

20. The First Tee of Charlottesville Foundation – $5,000 to provide transportation for children to Charlottesville area golf courses to participate in a program that teaches life skills through the game of golf.

21. FOCUS Women’s Resource Center – $7,000 to encourage pregnant and parenting teens to stay in school by providing supportive services and childcare stipends.

22. Gallastar Equine Center, Inc. – $10,000 to provide scholarships for 20 abused, neglected, at-risk, or disabled children to attend one-week therapeutic horseback riding and animal assisted therapy summer camps.

23. Goodwill Industries of the Valleys– $5,000 to support the Providing GED Testing Opportunities Project that will sponsor the GED test once a month at the Virginia Workforce Center, which serves Charlottesville and the surrounding counties.

24. Keswick Tennis Foundation – $3,000 to support supplies and labor costs to complete two handicapped accessible bathrooms.

25. Louisa County Historical Society – Sargeant Museum – $4,000 to develop skills and leadership in college and high school students for preserving history and making it available to the public through collections management work and virtual museum exhibits and displays.

26. Louisa Downtown Development Corporation (Louisa Arts Center) - $5,000 to develop a series of four creative camps for children focusing on music, art, dance, and theatre camps.

27. Monticello Area Community Action Agency – $6,000 to support Project Discovery, a college access program for low-income students to provide funding for scholarships and campus visits.

28. Mountaintop Montessori – $4,800 to support camp scholarships for the Summer of Ecological Experience & Discovery program, which makes gardening, cooking, ecology, and outdoor adventure programming available to low-income students.

29. Municipal Band of Charlottesville –$3,000 to support the 2011 Summer Concerts at the Paramount Theatre.

30. Nelson County Public Schools (Rockfish River Elementary Schools) – $4,500 to support the purchase of musical instruments that will significantly enhance music education for students.

31. Oakland School – $6,500 to expand its music and art program by purchasing new instruments, art equipment, supplies, and funding an art teacher.

32. Piedmont Housing Alliance– $10,000 to support the Friendship Court Community Resident Services, which focus on parenting resources, early childhood development, academic support, and family financial literacy.

33. Piedmont Regional Education Program (Ivy Creek School) – $5,000 to support the Ivy Creek School Enrichment Program which provides students with exposure to and training in a variety of visual and performing arts, life-long leisure activities, and career exploration opportunities.

34. Planned Parenthood Health Systems – $5,000 to help further and strengthen reproductive health education for teens, including the peer education program Teens Taking Action.

35. Rivanna Conservation Society – $6,000 to initiate a water quality monitoring system within the Rivanna River, James River, and Chesapeake Bay watershed with the goal of creating a comprehensive water quality monitoring network.

36. Scottsville Volunteer Fire Department – $5,500 to enhance citizen education, purchase equipment for firefighters, and purchase a portable radio for better communications.

37. Second Street Gallery– $6,000 to provide three public art/educational programs designed to enrich the community.

38. Senior Center Inc. – $10,000 to support arts and humanities programs that foster healthy aging for seniors in the community.

39. Spay/Neuter All Pets - $5,000 to continue low-cost spay/neuter services in Louisa County.

40. Stillwater Institute for Social Justice – $7,000 to support the Youth Roundtables program at Charlottesville High School which brings together students from varied backgrounds to be trained as facilitators and conduct discussions with their peers on difficult subjects, such as racial discrimination, women’s issues, and stereotyping.

41. Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless – $6,000 to create three art projects that engage homeless guests of The Haven at First & Market in conversations about identity, communication, sustainability, and preservation.

42. Tuesday Evening Concert Series – $3,000 to provide a partial underwriting of a children’s concert by clarinetist Jon Masse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu to be offered free of charge to school groups.

43. University of Virginia Infectious Diseases Clinic – $5,000 to support the HIV/AIDS community by providing an HIV Family Camp, gas vouches, non-prescription medication, and UVA cafeteria food vouchers to the financially underserved population.

44. University of Virginia Health System (UVA Renal Services – Orange Dialysis) – $500 to support an educational conference that is committed to building collaboration and teaching community agencies about approaches to improve the lives of dialysis clients.

45. University of Virginia Rectors & Visitors (Men’s Leadership Project) – $5,000 to continue and develop the Men’s Leadership Project, an intensive mentoring program that pairs undergraduate men with local fifth and sixth grade boys.

46. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts- $5,000 to support residencies for Charlottesville area visual artists, writers, and composers, allowing them to concentrate on their creative works.

47. Westminster Child Care Center – $2,075 to provide a scholarship for one low-income child to attend their 12-week preschool summer camp.

48. Wildlife Center – $10,000 for support of Wildlife Center environmental outreach programs for area elementary schools.

49. WHTJ PBS – $5,000 to support the Charlottesville Inside-Out television show that highlights the people and places that define Charlottesville and add to the quality of life in the city.

50. Young Audiences of Virginia – $1,500 to support the Total Quality Music program, a project designed to enhance the fine arts curricula of two Charlottesville area public schools by providing two hours of live musical performances for elementary or middle school students.