{"title":"MCCF makes 1st contribution from community grantmaking fund","content":"<p>The board of advisors of the Martin County Community Foundation made its first grant from its unrestricted fund in June.<\/p>\r\n<p>The grant was made to Unlimited Care for its Youth Summer Tutorial Program. <strong><\/strong>This program will provide summer activities for children to learn leadership skills and enhance decision-making. They will focus on a variety of activities, including 1) Sports - baseball , basketball;&#160; 2) Performing Arts - singing, dancing and drama; 3) Creative Arts - painting, drawing and&#160; crafts; 4) Academic Enrichment - literacy and math;&#160; 5) Outdoor Activities - bird watching\/identification; gardening, walking and exercise; 6)Technology - basic computer skills and surfing the web.&#160; About 75 youth will be served in Martin County through this grant.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Martin affiliate's community grantmaking fund reached the level needed to begin local grantmaking through last year's Chairman's Challenge, a campaign designed to build local endowments. The Chairman's Challenge will take place again in November of 2014.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Photo on Martin County home page:<\/strong><br \/>L-R: Unlimited Care Board of Directors: Lucy Curmon, Brenda Daniels and Nellie Roberts accept grant check from Martin County Community Foundation Board President Simon Griffin.&#160; Pictured also are board members Greg Shepard and Susan Dunlow.&#160; Not pictured, Laurence Lilley.; The board thanks First Citizens Bank for hosting board meetings in its conference room.<\/p>","excerpt":"<p>Local affiliate grants to program serving area youth.<\/p>","url":"\/news\/mccf-makes-1st-contribution-from-community-grantmaking-fund","publishedAt":1403703575,"media":[{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/nmcdn.io\/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da\/295b4aa3caf147538b0a606012c2aae2\/files\/martin\/news-events\/mccf-makes-first-contribution-from-community-grantmaking-fund\/martincogrants.jpg","title":"Martincogrants","caption":"","size":"2093583"}],"enableComments":false,"inMenu":false,"meta":null,"ordinal":0,"orderChildrenBy":"","id":"7a520c7bebd3403a8f692b16cd227590","parent":"31bc018cb0694068b20999237c54f462","node":45694,"created":1403703576,"modified":1528717378,"fresh":1,"type":"post","children":{},"relations":{"category":[{"title":"Martin County Community Foundation","source":null,"url":"\/categories\/communities\/northeastern\/martin-county-community-foundation","content":"","inMenu":false,"publishedAt":1536247742,"meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":0,"orderChildrenBy":"","permission":"write","tinyMCE_dummy":"","excerpt":"","media":"0","visibleTo":"Everyone","id":"5fc69552f88a40f483bf64a2c85cde10","parent":"e478692a8f114c36ad4d25eb73832cdb","node":20858,"created":1533158635,"modified":1536247742,"fresh":1,"type":"f9a6b2b005cb46ed8778f11c37e4d3a5","children":{}}]},"permission":"read"}