{"tinyMCE_dummy":"","title":"Unifour Foundation Endowment awards more than $218,000 in local grants","url":"\/news\/unifour-foundation-endowment-awards-more-than-218000-in-local-grants","meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":999,"content":"<p>The board of the Unifour Foundation Endowment recently announced $218,560 in grant awards, having four focus\/issue areas.<\/p>\r\n<p>This year the board granted nine grants totaling $36,000 in early childhood development and education to the following organizations and projects:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Sipe&rsquo;s Orchard Home for Tyndall Pre-K library improvement<\/li>\r\n<li>Alexander County Partnership for Children for Circle of Parents in Alexander County<\/li>\r\n<li>Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Writer Series for the university&rsquo;s 31st season of the visiting writer series<\/li>\r\n<li>Morning Star&rsquo;s Youth Mission for the Reach Back tutorial program<\/li>\r\n<li>Western Piedmont Foundation for 3D Printer: Student Gateway to Manufacturing Technology<\/li>\r\n<li>Catawba Valley Community College for Cultivating Character in Tomorrow&rsquo;s Talent<\/li>\r\n<li>Caldwell County Lions Association for their operations<\/li>\r\n<li>Catawba Science Center for Creating Access to Science (CATS)<\/li>\r\n<li>Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center, Inc. for Seeking Potential Avidly Reading Kids (SPARK)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>They granted 4 grants totaling $75,500 in their focus area of substance abuse to the following organizations and projects:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Catawba Valley Behavioral Healthcare for L.E.A.D.- Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion<\/li>\r\n<li>Safe Harbor Rescue Mission for Building a Solid Foundation Phase II<\/li>\r\n<li>TROSA (Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, Inc.) for residential substance abuse recovery services for individuals from the Unifour region<\/li>\r\n<li>AIDS Leadership Foothills- Area Alliance for HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, detection and care in injection drug users<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>They granted 5 grants totaling $18,000 in the arts issue area to the following organizations and projects:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Friends of Hickory for their collaborative community calendar<\/li>\r\n<li>Footcandle Film Society for the 2019 Footcandle Film Festival<\/li>\r\n<li>Western Piedmont Symphony, Inc. for Link Up- Expanding Music Education Opportunities in the Unifour Region<\/li>\r\n<li>Hickory Community Theatre for Keeping Downtown Hickory Alive and Vibrant<\/li>\r\n<li>Hickory Museum of Art for Collecting and Creating: Juan Logan&rsquo;s Sources of Inspiration<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Finally, they granted 18 grants totaling $89,060 in the health and human services issue area to the following organizations and projects:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina for backpacks for food-insecure children in Burke County<\/li>\r\n<li>South Caldwell Christian Ministries for feeding the hungry<\/li>\r\n<li>Helping Hands Clinic of Caldwell County, Inc. for access to lifesaving medication for uninsured adults<\/li>\r\n<li>North Carolina School for the Deaf at Morganton Foundation, Inc. for Lifelines for the Deaf and Blind<\/li>\r\n<li>Eastern Catawba Cooperative Christian Ministry, Inc. for Emergency Crisis Financial Assistance<\/li>\r\n<li>Women&rsquo;s Resource Center for their Long Term Case Management Program<\/li>\r\n<li>Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC for Healthy Food for Local Seniors<\/li>\r\n<li>957 Mobile Caf&eacute; for their operations<\/li>\r\n<li>Catawba County Council on Aging for their operations<\/li>\r\n<li>Habitat for Humanity- Catawba Valley, Inc. for their operations<\/li>\r\n<li>The Corner Table for general program support<\/li>\r\n<li>Caldwell Senior Center, Inc. for their operations<\/li>\r\n<li>Hickory Soup Kitchen for providing nutritious food to the hungry in the greater Hickory area<\/li>\r\n<li>The Salvation Army Boys &amp; Girls Club of Hickory for the Light Bulb Modernization Project<\/li>\r\n<li>Greater Hickory Cooperative Christian Ministry (GHCCM) for their program NetWorX Catawba<\/li>\r\n<li>Family Care Center of Catawba Valley, Inc. for Making a Home for the Homeless<\/li>\r\n<li>Adult Life Programs, Inc. for their operations<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Jamie Treadaway, Unifour Foundation board president, thanked the community for its continued support of the Unifour Foundation Endowment. &ldquo;We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so vital to the community,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We are grateful to the many generous individuals and organizations that have supported our work to inspire philanthropy across our community.&rdquo;<\/p>","excerpt":"","media":0,"custom":{"masthead":{"title":"","counties":"","affiliate_logo":"","sub_text":"","background_image":"","caption":""},"post_image":{"image":""},"latest_blog":{"post":""}},"inMenu":false,"visibleTo":"Everyone","publishedAt":1561560155,"orderChildrenBy":"ordinal","enableComments":false,"permission":"read","id":"109887a75ae2497aa78aa442c632a6f9","parent":"31bc018cb0694068b20999237c54f462","node":64247,"created":1561560156,"modified":1562791524,"fresh":1,"type":"post","children":{},"relations":{"category":[{"title":"Catawba Valley Community Foundation","source":null,"url":"\/categories\/communities\/northwestern\/catawba-valley-community-foundation","content":"","inMenu":false,"publishedAt":1536247855,"meta":{"title":"","description":"","excludeFromSitemap":"No"},"ordinal":0,"orderChildrenBy":"","permission":"write","tinyMCE_dummy":"","excerpt":"","media":"0","visibleTo":"Everyone","id":"71406746b51e4e0a938ec99d5ff438ea","parent":"91ed602f33d34403bcb61439858c5ea1","node":20871,"created":1533158557,"modified":1536247855,"fresh":1,"type":"f9a6b2b005cb46ed8778f11c37e4d3a5","children":{}}]}}