{"title":"Ashe County Community Foundation awards local grants","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/295b4aa3caf147538b0a606012c2aae2\/files\/TY-Ashe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The board of advisors of the Ashe County Community Foundation recently announced local awards from their community grantmaking fund, the Daniel Lee &ldquo;Dan&rdquo; Eldreth Memorial Endowment and other locally-held funds.<\/p>\r\n<p>This year the board granted $4,910 in local awards from both the Daniel Lee &ldquo;Dan&rdquo; Eldreth Memorial Endowment and the community grantmaking fund, including:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>$1,000 to Appalachian State University for Appalachian Senior Programs<\/li>\r\n<li>$750 to the Ashe County Arts Council for the Literary Festival with the Poet Laureate of the United States<\/li>\r\n<li>$1,000 to the Ashe County Partnership for Children for the Planting the Seeds to Read program<\/li>\r\n<li>$500 to Communities In Schools of Northwest North Carolina for the Essential 55 program<\/li>\r\n<li>$500 to the Hospital Hospitality House of Winston Salem (SECU Family House) for the Family House Family Financial Assistance Fund (FAF)<\/li>\r\n<li>$620 to Prevent Blindness North Carolina for the Star Pupils Ashe County program<\/li>\r\n<li>$540 to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC for partner agency capacity building for Ashe Outreach Ministry<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Christina Wagoner, board president, thanked the community for its support of the Ashe County Community Foundation. &ldquo;We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so important to our community,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We are grateful to the many generous individuals and organizations that have supported the Ashe County Community Fund and our work to inspire philanthropy across our community.&rdquo;<\/p>","excerpt":"<p>The board of advisors of the Ashe County Community Foundation recently announced local awards from their community grantmaking fund, the Daniel Lee &ldquo;Dan&rdquo; Eldreth Memorial Endowment and other locally-held funds.<\/p>","url":"\/news\/ashe-county-community-foundation-awards-local-grants","publishedAt":1531925765,"media":0,"enableComments":false,"inMenu":false,"meta":null,"ordinal":0,"orderChildrenBy":"","id":"790431469f7440e8915f48288094013b","parent":"31bc018cb0694068b20999237c54f462","node":48072,"created":1531925765,"modified":1532361684,"fresh":1,"type":"post","children":{},"relations":{"category":[{"title":"Ashe County Community Foundation","source":null,"url":"\/categories\/communities\/northwestern\/ashe-county-community-foundation","content":"","inMenu":false,"publishedAt":1536247847,"meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":0,"orderChildrenBy":"","permission":"write","tinyMCE_dummy":"","excerpt":"","media":"0","visibleTo":"Everyone","id":"c18c315e7bc64d1ba112744c73f7dba5","parent":"91ed602f33d34403bcb61439858c5ea1","node":20869,"created":1533158609,"modified":1536247847,"fresh":1,"type":"f9a6b2b005cb46ed8778f11c37e4d3a5","children":{}}]},"permission":"read"}