Grant Category: Rural Human Services

Long Table Harvest

Germantown, NY

Amount granted: $20,000

Grant year: 2020

Grant category: Rural Human Services

 

To support the increased hours of the Rolling Grocer 19 storefront which provides nutritious local food to underserved communities in the Hudson Valley.

Long Table Harvest is a grassroots organization founded in 2015 with the mission to cultivate social and economic equality in the local food system through dynamic, inclusive and creative collaborations across a diverse rural community.  Long Table Harvest focuses on gleaning and distributing fresh fruits, vegetables and meats from local farms to food pantries and through its Mobile Grocer program as a way of alleviating the burden hunger plays on the community. 

Food Bank of Central New York

Syracuse, NY

Amount granted: $20,000

Grant year: 2020

Grant categories: Human Services, Rural Human Services

 

To support mobile food pantries in and around Syracuse. 

Helping to feed the hungry since 1985, the Food Bank of Central New York (FBCNY) is a multi-faceted organization, working to eliminate hunger by meeting the complex needs of those in communities who are food insecure. For the past 30 years FBCNY has accomplished this through nutritious food distribution, child nutrition programs, outreach, education, and advocacy. Its mobile food pantry (MFP) program delivers food directly to individuals in need and is designed to reach individuals in underserved areas or areas designated as food deserts.

Friends of Matènwa

Matènwa, Haiti

Amount granted: $28,655

Grant year: 2020

Grant categories: Education, Rural Human Services

 

 To support the creation an entrepreneurship program for graduates of its community school through Biznis Kreyol

The Matènwa Community Learning Center (MCLC) was established as a school that would ban corporal punishment, offer instruction in Creole, incorporate gardening as part of its core curriculum, and put an emphasis on child-centered learning in an environment of mutual respect, investigation and critical thinking. The entrepreneurship program will provide an opportunity for the community’s youth that have graduated from school to earn a living, while giving back to the school community.

Long Table Harvest

Germantown, NY

Amount granted: $20,000

Grant year: 2018

Grant categories: Environment, Rural Human Services

 

To support the continuation of its Gleaning Program and to support its innovative Columbia County Mobile Market.

Long Table Harvest is a grassroots organization founded in 2015 with the mission to cultivate social and economic equality in the local food system through dynamic, inclusive and creative collaborations across a diverse rural community.  Long Table Harvest focuses on gleaning and distributing fresh fruits, vegetables and meats from local farms to food pantries as a way of alleviating the burden hunger plays on the community.  This year, Long Table Harvest will also make wholesome food available to everyone in the county by bringing a market directly to consumers. The CCMM is designed to be a fair and convenient way to purchase food year-round that will offer a range of minimally processed foods to meet the tastes and needs of all people living in the county. The project is a community-centered response to the immediate challenges of a food- and economically-insecure environment that currently exists in the county.

BGood Worldwide

Philadelphia, PA

Amount granted: $25,000

Grant year: 2018

Grant categories: Education, Rural Human Services

 

To support online leadership development, local community service, and international group travel program for the next generation of community and global leaders.

 The organization’s primary program, B the Light, is a team based program that includes online leadership development, local community service, and an international group service.  The current project will engage a team of 15 undergraduate and graduate students from Nyack College (NY) whose efforts will result in the construction of one primary school in Haiti. This school will serve over 400 children and adults from a rural community and will serve as a catalyst for sustainable and positive community development with the community.  BGood will partner with buildOn to coordinate the building of the school in Haiti.

Friends of Matènwa

Matènwa, Haiti

Amount granted: $20,000

Grant year: 2017

Grant categories: Education, Rural Human Services

 

To develop and refine Institute Program and hubs in year 3.

The Matènwa Community Learning Center (MCLC) was established as a school that would ban corporal punishment, offer instruction in Creole, incorporate gardening as part of its core curriculum, and put an emphasis on child-centered learning in an environment of mutual respect, investigation and critical thinking.

This is the third year of support for the Institute that seeks to refine and expand upon the basic components developed the first two years. It includes developing training materials that can be shared with the greater community.

Family Place, The

Norwich, VT

Amount granted: $10,000

Grant year: 2000

Grant category: Rural Human Services

 

To Support Parenting Program

Reach Out and Read

Lebanon, NH

Amount granted: $10,000

Grant year: 1999

Grant category: Rural Human Services

 

To Support Reading Program Based in Doctor’s Offices

Northern New England Tradeswomen

Barre, VT

Amount granted: $9,500

Grant year: 1999

Grant categories: Rural Human Services, Women and Girls

 

To Support Gear Up for Women Training Program in the Automotive Industry