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Ketchikan Community Foundation 2021 Grantees Announced Awards $24,320 to 5 Local Non-Profits
By Katie Vincent
April 20, 2021
Tuesday PM
The Ketchikan Community Foundation (KCF), an Affiliate of the Alaska Community Foundation (ACF), is pleased to announce that $24,320 in grant funding was awarded to five Ketchikan nonprofit organizations Thursday, March 25th. This is the sixth year KCF has awarded nonprofit grant funding in Ketchikan. Including this year’s recipients, KCF has now awarded approximately $130,000 to 40 organizations.
The awards ceremony was held virtually via Zoom and was made possible through the collaboration and innovative thinking of KCF’s Events Committee, led by Vone Edwards. The committee wanted to provide ample acknowledgment of the grant recipients and their projects and decided to do that in video form. Committee member Felix Wong filmed and produced the videos which featured a representative from each organization giving an overview of their mission and project. The videos were presented during the ceremony followed by brief commentary from the grantees and KCF staff. The event was open to anyone who wished to attend, and there were representatives from each of the non-profits, KCF and the Alaska Community Foundation.
KCF has three grant cycle themes that rotate on an annual basis. The theme for this year was “Community Enrichment”, and all of the organizations proposed projects that will truly enrich the community in which we live.
The 2021 Community Enrichment Grant recipients are:
Boy Scouts of America - $700 for day camp supplies.
Ketchikan Wellness Coalition - $5,000 for a community garden project. Southeast Alaska Independent Living (SAIL) - $5,000 for their ORCA program. Women in Safe Home (WISH) - $4,000 for a youth/peer intervention program. KRBD - $9,620 to upgrade their broadcasting technology.
On behalf of the KCF board, I would like to thank the many donors who have contributed to the KCF endowment fund and are making these kinds of grants available to local nonprofit organizations every year.
Sincerely,
Katie Vincent
KCF Program Manager
Ketchikan, Alaska
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Received April 08, 2021
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