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