(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - The Ketchikan Community Foundation (KCF), an Affiliate of The Alaska Community Foundation (ACF), will be accepting online applications for its 2020 grant awards program from January 1 through February 6, 2020. KCF has chosen three community funding categories that rotate each year, and organizations serving Youth in the community is the category for 2020.

This will be the fifth year that KCF has awarded grants to local nonprofits. The Foundation has now distributed about $90,000 in nonprofit funding in the community.

Past grant examples range from funding for batting helmet and safety gear for the youth softball league, to avalanche search and rescue training for the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad. Other grant funding provided new freezers to aid food storage for First City Homeless Services, a hydroponics garden at the Ketchikan Pioneers Home, bereavement training for Ketchikan Volunteer Hospice, the children’s community garden at the library, tournament travel and uniforms for Special Olympics, and many more.

KCF’s annual grants are funded using a percentage of the earned income from its permanent endowment fund, which currently stands at about $577,000.

“The impacts of Ketchikan nonprofit organizations are immense and reach many diverse needs,” said Marggie Sweetman, KCF grant committee chair. “KCF is honored to support these organizations through the legacy that donors and the community of Ketchikan are building now and into the future.”

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For more information or to apply for KCF’s grant program, go to www.ketchikancf.org/grants

Edited By Mary Kauffman, SitNews

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