Floyd County Legacy Foundation awards $500K in grants
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The Floyd County Legacy Foundation has awarded 10 grants to local nonprofits totaling in more than half a million dollars.
The grant program, in its fourth year, distributed $533,080 to organizations meeting the needs of residents in New Albany, Floyds Knobs, Greenville, Georgetown and Galena.
Their proposals help address needs identified in the Priorities for Progress — Assets and Aspirations in Southern Indiana 2021 Report developed by the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana and the IU Southeast Applied Research and Education Center.
Grant recipients include:
- Brandon’s House Counseling Center: $100,000 to purchase an expanded counseling center serving New Albany.
- Choices Life Resource Center: $94,000 for capital improvements and to support clients in the organization’s fatherhood program.
- Family Ark: $9,121 for toolkits, age-appropriate books and family support materials.
- Hope Southern Indiana: $10,000 to support veteran’s services.
- Jacob’s Well Project: $57,959 to help the organization double its outreach as a transitional living facility for single mothers and their children.
- Our Place Drug and Alcohol Education Services: $50,000 to a Floyd County 4-H project supporting a full-time licensed addiction counselor’s work in New Albany Floyd County Schools.
- Parenting with Purpose: $50,000 to partially cover expenses for the organization’s Teen Mom/Child Support Program.
- Personal Counseling Services: $100,000 to provide mental health services to victim from the Floyd County Prosecutor’s Office and to expand office space.
- St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities: $57,000 to support the organizations current shelter program and add a new shelter building.
- The Healing Place: $5,000 to provide no-cost services to Floyd County residents suffering from addiction, substance use disorder and homelessness.