Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.

Community Grants Awarded during the 2010-2011 competitive process

Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation was awarded $10,000 in operating support that will help expand and add new educational programs
Cape Fear Studios was awarded $5,000 to grow a summer art camp into a year-round program for formerly homeless children living in Ashton Woods Transitional Houses
Child Advocacy Center was awarded $25,000 to implement a model for abuse prevention that will ensure that children in Cumberland County are better protected from abuse and that adults in the community understand their critical role in protecting children
Cumberland HealthNet was awarded $30,000 to improve the health of low-income uninsured adult residents of Cumberland County
Fayetteville Art Guild was awarded $3,000 to connect more citizens with the visual arts through the Visual Arts Alliance, an artist collaborative that improves the presentation of the visual arts
Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was awarded $1,000.00 for staff participation in an Orchestra Management Program through the League of American Orchestras
Safe Havens Supervised Visitation was awarded $40,000 in operating support that will help maintain safe supervised visits to parents and children who are victims of abuse
Sustainable Sandhills was awarded $15,000 to increase public awareness of sustainable environmental practices
Vision Resource Center was awarded up to $10,000 in operating support to implement a strategic plan for board development and fundraising that will sustain the organization’s programs for the blind and visually impaired

Endowment Challenge grants:

Cape Fear Botanical Garden received $50,000 as $1:$1 challenge match for gifts to the Cape Fear Botanical Garden Children’s Fund, which endows support for the garden’s programming for children. The Lilly Endowment Challenge grant is made possible by the Ashton W. Lilly Fund for Philanthropy.
Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra through December 2009, gifts were matched $1:$1 up to $25,000 to help secure the long-term future of quality symphonic music in our community. This grant was made possible by the Ashton W. Lilly Fund for Philanthropy.

Nonprofit Leadership Award:

2010 Child Advocacy Center in honor of Rosemary Zimmerman
2009 Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra in honor of Les Griffin
2008 The CARE Clinic in honor of Joseph Boles

Multi-year and recently concluded grants:

Balkcum Education Initiative awarded $30,000 to improve education outcomes for low performing students in memory of Vienna and John Balkcum
Balkcum Scholars Awards awarded $80,000 in college scholarships for students in memory of Vienna and John Balkcum.
Child Advocacy Center awarded $45,000 over three years to provide operating support and protect children from child abuse and neglect (concluded)
Cumberland County Schools awarded $15,000 for the PRIDE PACT Leadership Academy to improve math and literacy proficiency for girls from schools with high poverty rates and low student achievement (concluded)
North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research awarded $10,000 for a technology initiative that will provide internet access to 30 years of public policy research with data specific to Cumberland County that will inform and guide local leaders (concluded)
Sandhills Area Land Trust awarded $25,000 in 2007 to publish the Field Guidebook to the Plants of Cumberland County and the Sandhills Region and initiate measures to conserve the significant Natural Heritage Areas of Cumberland County (extension/completed)
Sustainable Sandhills awarded $30,000 over two years to support general operations that will coordinate social, environmental and economic resources to promote community sustainability (concluded)
Women’s Giving Circle of Fayetteville awarded a matching grant of up to $13,750 to increase philanthropy by women in Cumberland County (concluded)