Fall Grant Awardees Announcement!
Lisa Gordillo, Associate Professor of Visual & Performing Arts and artist-in-residence, Michigan Tech College of Forest Resources & Environmental Sciences, posing with a prototype “Nature Megaphone”
Thank you to all the donors, supporters, community members, and applicants for a successful fall granting program! Keweenaw Area Community Foundation will be awarding over $90,000.00 to local non-profit organizations. This is part one of a series of posts announcing our grants to 46 different organizations. Stay tuned for more!
The KCF Community Impact Fund ($10,000 total) grant recipients are:
-Ahmeek Village Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department, for upgrades of their tables and chairs, to better meet the needs of the public safety trainings and other community meetings and events at the Ahmeek Village Hall.
-Copper Country Angel Mission, for their client assistance program, allowing them to fulfill more requests for food, housing, and utilities assistance to community members in need.
-Michigan Technological University, Department of Visual & Performing Arts, to create “Nature Megaphones”: an art installation of large, cone-shaped cedar structures that amplify the sounds of natural areas and encourage people to enjoy the forest.
-Tech Tutors, for transportation assistance in bringing tutors to more local schools for free in-person tutoring sessions.
From the Houghton County Historical Preservation Fund ($1,100 total):
-Houghton County Historical Society, for the installation of durable, weatherproof, interpretive signs on museum grounds.
-Painesdale Mine & Shaft, Inc., to rebuild an integral staircase that provides access to the upper level of the rockhouse, in order to give tours and do further preservation and restoration of the historical mine building.
From the Environmental Fund ($1,700 total):
-Ahmeek Village Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department, for hazardous materials emergency response equipment, in order to respond rapidly to prevent environmental contamination in the case of a hazardous liquid spill.
-Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, to promote community engagement in sustainability, with an educational film series and public discussions.
-Keweenaw Wild Bird R.E.C., to assist in purchasing a net gun to aid in injured wild bird capture.
-Swedetown Trails Club, for new energy-efficient lighting on the cross-country ski trails, to reduce costs and reduce maintenance.
From the Portage Lake Youth Fund ($2,500 total):
-Community Alliance for Progressive Education (CAPE), for their Make It UP! Makerspace program, to procure necessary resources and equipment.
-Glad Tidings Assembly of God, in partnership with Barkell Elementary school, to expand the school’s existing trail network to include access to Glad Tidings Church property. This project is also being funded by the Kellogg Youth Endowment Fund at KCF.
-Superior Fab Lab, in support of their first annual Superior Maker Fest event, scheduled for March 2023, designed to connect inventors and creators with each other, and the greater community.
Thank you again to the community members who served on the granting committees and helped make the tough funding decisions.