2017 Community Grant Recipients
Adolphustown-Fredericksburg Heritage Society
Project Title: Cemeteries Signs Pilot Project
Grant: $655
Amherst Island Community Café (The Back Kitchen)
To be used towards the purchase of gas range, three-compartment sink, rotary toaster, grease trap, and materials to build accessability ramp
Grant: $5000
Canadian Diabetes Association
To be used to support local children and youth so that they can attend camp Banting
Grant: $2000
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
To be used to help seniors with vision loss from Lennox and Addington by providing a net of social support
Grant: $2000
Easter Seals Ontario
To send an Easter Seals child residing in Greater Napanee to Camp Merrywood
Grant: $2500
Epilepsy Southeastern Ontario
Project: Lennox and Addington Community Education Program
Grant: $1000
Greater Napanee Gymnastics Club
For the purchase of multipurpose safety spotting equipment
Grant: $3000
Hospice Lennox & Addington
To be used for capacity building – volunteer recruitment, training, and engagement
Grant: $3000
Kingston Community Health Centres
To be used for The Napanee “Chill Zone”
Grant: $2500
Kingston Community Health Centres
To be used towards the cost of a dentist for two of the free dental clinic days in their dental office at Napanee & Area Community Health Centre
Grant: $2000
Land o’ Lakes Lions Club
To be used for their Youth Drop in Program Enhancement project
Grant: $3400
Lennox & Addington Special Olympics
To be used to maintain Lennox & Addington Special Olympics athlete participation/sports teams
Grant: $3500
Lennox & Addington Stewardship Council
To be used toward the purchase of their Monarch Breeding Kits for Schools Project
Grant: $500
Morning Star Relief Mission Inc.
To be used for their Accessibility Phase 2 (accessible washroom) project
Grant: $5000
School to Community at Napanee District Secondary School
To be used towards the purchase of art and craft supplies for the School to Community Program at Napanee District Secondary School
Grant: $1500
Retired Women Teachers of Ontario
To be used towards the purchase of supplies for early literacy learning kits for their Tales and Tunes for Tots program in Lennox and Addington
Grant: $2000
Scouts Canada
To be used towards their Pinewood Car Rally Track upgrade
Grant: $1000
Waterside Summer Series Music Festival
To be used for their project “Celebrate Canada’s 150th with Elora Singer’s ‘O Canada! Joyfully Sing!” concert and to promote the Waterside Summer Series Music Festival
Grant: $3000