The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County (CFSLOCO) announced that 24 local nonprofits received a total of $193, 635 from the CommUNITY Foundation Grants program for 2015.
The grants program, funded solely by local donors, supports local nonprofits in the fields of arts & culture, education, health & human services, and community enhancement. This year’s recipients include; the Foundation for the Performing Arts Center’s “2015 – 2016 School Matinee Program”, providing performing arts experiences for approximately 9,000 local students; Long Term Care Ombudsman’s “Mental Health Training” for 80 local staff of skilled nursing facilities; Affordable Housing Paso Robles’s “Youth Works”, an employment to empowerment program for under-served youth in Paso Robles; One Cool Earth’s “SLO Watershed Project” providing science-based water conservation programming to 555 public school students; CASA’s “Infant/Toddler Program” training volunteer advocates to work with abused or neglected newborn to three year olds; YMCA of SLO County’s expansion to 3 additional sites of the program “Food and Fun” – an afterschool healthy eating and physical activity curriculum.
“The annual CommUNITY Grants Program helps to support the diverse and dedicated service of our local nonprofits that contribute so much to the quality of life on the Central Coast,” said CFSLOCO’s CEO, Heidi McPherson.
This grants program brings together several funds held at the Community Foundation, including the Foundation’s Community Needs Endowment Fund and various field of interest funds. For a complete list of this year’s grantees, visit cfsloco.org.
Since its founding in 1998, the Community Foundation has supported our county with grants totaling more than $26 million. The Foundation’s assets under management have grown to more than $47 million, and provide support to all aspects of our community in perpetuity. For more information or to donate to any fund, visit The Community Foundation’s website, cfsloco.org or call 543-2323.