CARTHAGE, Mo. – During a luncheon presentation on Thursday, May 20, the Board of Directors of Carthage Community Foundation presented $61,125 in grant funding to 16 area organizations supporting the Carthage community and its residents.
Health & Human Services Grants:
- Children’s Haven – Transportation for Carthage Kids – $2,500
- Carthage Crisis Center – Commercial Dishwasher – $3,725
- Alliance of Southwest Missouri – Deerfield Village Parent Cafes – $5,000
Education & Youth Services Grants:
- Fair Acres Family YMCA – Safety Around Water Program – $2,500
- Art Feeds – Trauma Training & Curriculum for Carthage Art Teachers & Counselors – $5,000
- Columbian Elementary School – Outdoor Classroom – $4,000
- Carthage Rotary – Scholarship Program – $400
- Kellogg Lake – Exploration Play Area – $5,000
Arts, Culture, History & Community Beautification Grants:
- Vision Carthage – Sidewalk Streetscaping – $5,000
- artCentral – Operational Assistance – $2,500
- Stone’s Throw Dinner Theatre – Operational Relief – $2,500
- Carthage Council on the Arts – Arts Communications & Piano Scholarship Assistance – $5,000 ($2,500 of this grant for Piano Scholarship Assistance was made possible by the Vivian Le n Fund for the Musical Arts)
Vivian Leon Fund for the Musical Arts Grants:
- ProMusica – Morgenstern Piano Trio Performance – $4,000
- The Cornell Center – Grand Piano Assistance – $4,000
Coover Covid-19 Regional Recovery Grants:
- Jasper County Youth Fair – Recovery for 2021 Fair – $5,000
- Area Agency on Aging – Carthage Can Do Senior Center Recovery – $5,000
CCF President Jeff Williams explained, “It is our great honor twice each year to carry out the charitable wishes of legacy donors and meet important needs in our community through our grantmaking.”
Carthage Community Foundation works with individuals, families and organizations in the community to establish permanent endowments that enhance the quality of life for current and future generations by investing in the Carthage community. Grants above are made possible by generous individuals who left portions of their estates to Carthage for the betterment of the community for years to come. The following endowments at CCF provided the grant funding for the awards:
- Kenneth and Addean MacArthur Trust Fund
- The Carthage Fund
- Marsh Family Foundation Fund
- Marsh Family Foundation Food & Nutrition Fund
- George & Geraldine Beimdiek Memorial Fund
- Vivian Leon Fund for the Musical Arts
Additionally, this year CCF was honored to make even more grant funding available thanks to a gift and match from Jerry Poston and State Farm Insurance, as well as the Coover Regional Recovery Grants Program.
The Coover Regional Recovery Grants are made possible by the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Charitable Foundation, managed by Commerce Trust Company in partnership with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. Carthage Community Foundation is one of 30 CFO affiliate foundations to receive Coover grant funding this year and chose to use its award to hold a community recovery grant round for eligible nonprofits.
“One of the benefits of the CFO’s affiliate network is the ability of local leaders to make decisions in the best interests of their own communities,” said Jill Reynolds, senior vice president at Commerce Trust. “Using leaders across rural Missouri to award Coover Charitable Foundation grant dollars has contributed to this partnership’s success in distributing more than $7 million since 2002.”
