Catawba Valley Community Foundation awards more than $28,000 in local grants

The board of advisors of the Catawba Valley Community Foundation recently announced $28,440 in local grant awards from its community grantmaking fund.

This year the board granted:

• $1,500 to the AIDS Leadership Foothills-area Alliance, Inc. (ALFA) for HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, detection and care in injection drug users
• $2,100 to the Alexander County Partnership for Children for CPR & First Aid for Early Childhood Educators
• $2,500 to the Catawba Valley Community College for Dreamland: The Interdisciplinary Read 2018-19
• $2,000 to the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina, Inc. for Catawba Valley family recruitment
• $1,840 to the Family Care Center of Catawba Valley, Inc. for the Safe and Secure program
• $4,000 to the Helping Hands Clinic for combating the opioid crisis in Caldwell County
• $1,500 to the Hickory Soup Kitchen for feeding the hungry of Catawba Valley
• $2,500 to the Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center, Inc. for the Learning is Fun Together (LIFT) program
• $3,000 to Sipe’s Orchard Home for Tyndall Pre-K improvement
• $1,500 to The Corner Table for the Debbie Payseur Packing Program
• $5,000 to TROSA (Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, Inc.) for residential substance abuse recovery services for individuals from Catawba Valley
• $1,000 to the UNC Center for Public Television for the “Catawba is Making. Living. Better” Documentary Project

Jamie Treadaway, board president, thanked the community for its support of the Catawba Valley Community Foundation. “We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so vital to the community,” he said. “We are grateful to the many generous individuals and organizations that have supported our work to inspire philanthropy across our community.”