Moore County Community Foundation awards 2016 local grants

The board of advisors of the Moore County Community Foundation announces local grant awards from its community grantmaking fund.

This year’s nonprofit recipients include:

• (AIMS) Authors in Moore Schools
• Animal Advocates of Moore County
• Arts Council of Moore County
• Autism Society of North Carolina
• Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills
• Communities In Schools of Moore County
• Companion Animal Clinic of the Sandhills Foundation
• Drug Free Moore County
• Family Promise of Moore County
• Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC
• Friend to Friend
• Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines
• Habitat for Humanity of the NC Sandhills
• Linden Lodge Foundation
• MIRA Foundation USA
• Monarch
• Moore Free & Charitable Clinic
• North Carolina Theatre Conference
• Northern Moore Family Resource Center
• Partners for Children & Families
• Prancing Horse
• Pretty In Pink Foundation
• Prevent Blindness North Carolina
• Sandhills/Moore Coalition for Human Care
• St. Joseph of the Pines
• The Arc of Moore County
• The First Tee of the Sandhills

Betsy Best, board president, thanked the community for its support of the Moore County Community Foundation. “These grants are important to our community and our quality of life,” she said. “Critical programs would not be possible without the generosity of many individuals and organizations that have supported Moore County’s community fund.”