Community foundation awards grants
The Community Foundation of Fayette County recently awarded thousands of dollars in spring grants and grants from the Chevron Community Fund.
The foundation, in partnership with Chevron, awards grants to nonprofits in Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties. Funding is limited to programs that support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, workforce development and basic human needs.
The Fayette County Career and Technical Institute received a $10,000 grant for its summer camp, which gives middle school students from the county new ways to explore careers.
The Imagination Library in Uniontown, which provides one book a month to children from birth through age 5 through a partnership with the Dolly Parton Foundation, received a $10,000 grant.
Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette received a $10,000 grant for its “New Adventures: Passport to the Future Summer Camp” series, which helps students in grades five to seven in Fayette and Westmoreland counties learn about local industry and to explore careers.
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg received a $9,000 grant that will provide professional development focusing on STEM to current and preservice educators from Fayette and Westmoreland counties and will implement a “Traveling Truck Program” intended to improve STEM education in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Westmoreland-Fayette Council Boy Scouts of America received a $5,150 grant for “Skilled Trades Week” for youth ages 11-18 to explore educational and career opportunities for in-demand professions by learning about and completing a project in home repairs, electricity, welding, woodworking, plumbing, automotive care and painting with the guidance of industry professionals.
The foundation’s spring grants included $4,932 for the Brownsville Area School District’s advanced placement physics lab; $1,300 for Fayette County Historical Society’s upgraded security system; $1,000 for City Mission-Living Stones’ Promise House; $1,000 for Fayette County Community Action Agency’s Fairweather Lodge; $1,000 for Uniontown Public Library’s summer reading program; $600 for German-Masontown Public Library’s Education Station; $500 for Albert Gallatin Area School District’s Colonial Closet; $500 for Greater Uniontown Heritage Consortium’s State Theatre Center for the Arts’ production of “Hairspray;” $450 for the Wesley Health Center; $250 for Christian Layman Corps’ fuel costs and truck maintenance for deliveries to the county food bank and $100 for the Brownsville Area School District’s “Reading the Latest and Greatest Books” program.