2016 Community Grant Recipients

Amherst Island Community Café

Toward operating costs

Grant: $3,160

Big Brothers Big Sisters Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington

Toward its “Napanee School-Based Mentoring Expansion” program

Grant: $4,700

Canadian Diabetes Association

Toward its “Camp Banting:Needs Your Support” program (send a child within Lennox and Addington to a one-week session at Camp Banting) and the “Camp Banting Leadership Development Program”

Grant: $2,300

Canadian National Institute for the Blind

Toward increasing well-being for those living blind or partially sighted in Lennox & Addington

Grant: $2,000

Gibson Family Health Care Charitable Foundation

To help purchase specialized medical equipment to enhance residents’ quality-of-life as well as accomodate their unique medical needs

Grant: $1,000

Greater Napanee Soccer Club

Toward the purchase of equipment for its “Safe Places to Play” ptogram

Grant: $1,000

640 Hastings & Prince Edward Army Cadets (Cloyne)

Toward the purchase of snowshoes and cross-country ski equipment for Cadet winter training

Grant: $2,500

Hospice Lennox and Addington

Toward its “Increase Capacity to Provide Bereavement Support within out Community” program. – offering a bereavement facilitation training workshop, to eight-week bereavement support group sessions, and purchasing resources for clients

Grant: $3,000

Lennox and Addington Bike Shop Partnered with Napanee & District Civitan Club

Toward the purchase of tools, safety equipment, and parts needed to repair and maintain bicycles

Grant: #2,500

Kingston Community Health Centres

Toward the purchase of supplies for its “Napanee Chill Zone” program

Grant: $2,000

Lennox and Addington Special Olympics Association

Toward funding a Special Olympic Swim Program for local athletes

Grant: $3,500

Lennox and Addington Stewardship Council

Toward the purchase of 10 Monarch breeding kits in support of “The Monarch Breeding Kits for Schools Project”

Grant: $1,000

Morning Star Mission Relief Mission Inc.

Toward its “The Poverty Challenge” program (providing free hot meals and other outreach programs to families and individuals living in poverty)

Grant: $1,000

Ongwanada

Toward funding its “Circle of Friends – Napanee” initiative

Grant: $2,500

School to Community Program at Napanee District Secondary School

Toward the purchase of supplies for its “School to Community Arts & Crafts Supplies” program

Grant: $1,500

Selby Public School

Toward the purchase of two stationary “Brain” bikes in support of its “Sparks Fly (Brain) Bikes” program

Grant: $1,500

The Greater Napanee Gymnastics Club

Toward the purchase of a set of F.I.G. (competitive) Level Uneven Parallel Bars

Grant: $3,000

The Salvation Army Thrift Store

Toward sending six children to “The Salvation Army Ontario Adventure Camp”

Grant: $2,000