Featured Grant
Recipient:
The
Wade Center
The Wade Center is set to reopen next month with a Summer Camp
program for kids in 1st through 8th grades.
Read more about it
Scholarship Recipient Recommendations Ready for Board Action
The Foundation's
Scholarship Committee has completed its work sorting through and
evaluating more than 200 applications from nearly 100 applicants, and
has formulated its recommendations for Board action on May 8.
The list contains 41 individuals to receive 48 scholarships totaling
$47,200, and there are four additional scholarship funds whose Advisory
Committees will submit recommendations prior to the May 8 meeting.
Once again, many thanks to the Committee: Carole Dodson, Chair; Mary
Azzo; Gene Bailey; Carl Gillespie; Eugenia Hancock; Mary Raub; Jim
Steorts, Bettye VanDyke and Susan Whittaker.
Featured Grant
Recipient:
City
of Princeton Fire Department
A grant from the Community
Foundation of the Virginias, Inc. helped the Princeton Fire Department in purchasing
a piece of equipment to help protect firefighters and also find and rescue
people trapped in burning buildings.
Featured Grant
Recipient:
Gary
Bowling's House of Art
Gary Bowling's House of Art received a grant to support a
creative art activity for kids.
Read more about it
Scholarship Applications Are Now Being Reviewed
The 2012 Scholarship Cycle of the Community Foundation of the Virginias,
Inc. has entered the application review stage.
Each year the Foundation awards dozens of
scholarships to area students to assist them in continuing their
education. More than 90 individual applicants submitted approximately
200 applications in this year’s cycle, seeking financial assistance from
the Foundation’s 17 scholarship funds.
Scholarship recipients are chosen through a
competitive process which culminates with the approval of scholarship
recommendations by the Foundation’s Board of Directors at its May
meeting. Those recipients who are high school seniors will be presented
their award at their school's Awards Ceremony. Other recipients will be
notified by mail.
The Scholarship Committee is chaired by Carole
Dodson and includes members Mary Azzo, Gene Bailey, Carl Gillespie,
Eugenia Hancock, Mary Raub, Jim Steorts, Bettye VanDyke, and Susan
Whittaker.
Featured Grant
Recipient:
W.I.S.E. Women's Resource Center
The Foundation is pleased to
have been able to assist W.I.S.E. through a grant in 2011 in its
efforts to help women
remain or become self-sufficient.
Read more about it
New Board members join the Community Foundation
The Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc. held its Annual Meeting
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at its offices in Bluefield. The primary item
of business was the election of Officers and Board Members.
Officers for 2012 are:
President - Charles
Carter
Vice President -
Julie Johnson
Secretary - Betty
Bailey
Treasurer - Matt
Martin
Two new members were welcomed to the Board of Directors, Scott Keim,
filling an unexpired term ending in 2013, and Dewey Russell, joining the
Class of 2016.
Other Board members reappointed to the Class of 2016 are: Mary Azzo,
Betty Bailey, Matt Martin, Kermit Moore, Susan Cooper-Snyder, Bettye
VanDyke, and Jenny Ware.
Listings of other Board members and Committee members can be found by
following the "About the Foundation" link at right.
First Book in Mercer and Tazewell Counties
Get Assist from the Foundation
 United Way of the
Virginias Executive Director Michelle Carter (center) and Vicki
Mays, member of the Tazewell County First Book Advisory Board
and a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of the
United Way of the Virginias, Inc. (right), receive a grant award
from Charles Carter, President of the Community Foundation of
the Virginias, Inc. for the First Book of Tazewell County
program and the First Book of Mercer County program.
The First Book program in
each county received $1,000 from the Foundation to assist in providing
books for low-income children in each county. Funding was provided from
the Community Action Grant Fund, the Judge Jerome and Hilda R. Katz
Memorial Fund and the Bluefield Daily Telegraph Literacy Fund.
The Community Foundation
awarded grants totaling more than $50,000 to area organizations in 2011.
Foundation Grant Assists WE CAN Program
Eric Lester, Program
Director for the WE CAN program of the Children’s Home Society
in Princeton, is pictured at left receiving a grant award from
the Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc., presented by
Foundation Executive Director James Shott.
The Community Foundation
awarded grants totaling more than $50,000 to area organizations in 2011
in its 15th annual Grants Cycle.
The $2,000 grant will assist
in the development of a Support Group to assist in adoptive and foster
parenting, and will impact 15 such families in Mercer County.
The funds came from the
Fannie Kate and Betty Gardner Bailey Fund, the Fund for Mercer County,
and the Charles A. and Marjorie M. Peters Fund.
Children's Home Society Receives Foundation Grant
 Joanne
Boileau, Regional Director of the Princeton office of the
Children's Home Society of West Virginia, is pictured receiving
a grant award from the Community Foundation of the Virginias,
Inc., presented by Foundation President Charles Carter.
The grant of $1,800 will
assist the Society in providing children referred to the WE CAN program
with opportunities to attend performing arts events.
This initiative enables 80
children and 75 mentees to attend four performing arts events from
October 2011 through March 2012, complete with pre-performance dinners
at local restaurants.
The Community Foundation
awarded grants totaling more than $50,000 to area organizations in 2011.
Foundation Awards
Grants for 2011
The Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc. is pleased to
announce the award of 33 grants for 2011. The Grants Committee
is chaired by Robert Perkinson and comprised of ten members this
year, including: Mary Azzo, Rich Bezjak, Phyllis Beaver-Horwitz,
Kathleen Blaydes, Carole Dodson, Darryl Hudson, Doris Sue
Kantor, Susan Cooper-Snyder, Bettye VanDyke and Pat Whittaker.
These awards totaling $50,094.86 represent the Foundation’s
15th annual grant cycle supporting local nonprofit groups. A
total of $71,098.84 was requested from the Foundation.
With the inclusion of the 2011 awards, the Foundation has
returned approximately $774,114 to the area since 1997 in grants
and scholarships.
The Board of the Foundation is gratified to share this report
with the community and those who have made it possible with
their support and encouragement.
Organizations may request and submit grant application
packets for the Year 2012 during the months of April, May and
June. Evaluations will be conducted in July and August; the
Board will finalize approval of grants in September. Grant
payments will be made upon request thereafter.
“Magician’s Magician”
Michael Ammar returns to Bluefield
 It
has been five years since West Virginia native and Bluefield
High School graduate Michael Ammar dazzled the local audience
with his "close-up" slight-of-hand magic performance, and he
returns for an appearance to benefit of the Community Foundation
of the Virginias, Inc. on August 10, 2011.
Michael, who is the
son of the late A.S. "Buddy" Ammar and Betty Ammar, became
interested in magic as a child, and developed his interest to a
level achieved by only a few in his field.
Called "the
magician's magician" by David Copperfield, Michael earned the
designation as one of the 100 most influential magicians of the
20th Century by The Magic Magazine, and many regard him
as the greatest sleight-of-hand magician in the world.
His performance
blends a unique combination of skill, humor, and motivation for
an extremely entertaining evening. He has appeared on "The
Tonight Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman," "The Merv
Griffin Show." Michael lectures, performs and teaches all over
the world, and has a long list of awards and honors, including
these recent honors: the Distinguished Alumni Award from West
Virginia University in 2003; Magician of the Year, Tannens, NY
in 2000; and Best Close-Up Magic, World Magic Awards, in 1999.
The event takes
place at Fincastle Country Club on Wednesday, August 10
beginning at 6:00 p.m. with a social period and cash bar, dinner
at 6:45 p.m., and the show follows dinner.
This event is one
of the Foundation’s two major fundraisers this year, the second
being the Annual Dinner later in the year.
Seating is
limited and tickets are $60 each, and are available from the
Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc., 304-324-0222.
Featured Grant
Recipient:
Pikeview High School
A grant from the Community
Foundation of the Virginias, Inc., helped Pikeview High School's track athletes
with the purchase of a High Jump Mat.
Read more about it
The Ridge Runner Train is Back
on Track
 Saturday,
May 14 was the day that the Ridge Runner train in Bluefield,
WV's Lotito City Park was rededicated and put back into service,
and a large crowd of interested members of the local community
turned out for the occasion.
Music was
provided by the Bluefield High School Band and the Bluefield
State College Community Singers, and representatives of both
Bluefield, WV and Bluefield, VA municipal governments were on
hand for the festivities.
The Foundation
congratulates Lecia Smith, RR Committee Chair, Bea Paine,
Co-Chair, and all members of the Committee for a job well done.
The train will
operate on weekends through the summer.
Community Foundation Approves
2011 Scholarship Awards
The
Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc. is pleased to
announce the awarding of 56 scholarships for 2011 totaling
$52,675 from 17 individual scholarship funds. Scholarship
recipients were chosen through a competitive process, and those
recipients who are high school seniors will be presented their
award at their school's Awards Ceremony. Other recipients will
be notified by mail.
The following funds awarded
scholarships this year:
The
Alex Mahood Fund
The
Alfred and Shirley Wampler Caudill Scholarship Fund
The
C. B. and Ora Hunter Hancock Memorial Scholarship
The
Doctor Jack Walter Witten Scholarship Fund
The
E.R. Gillespie Scholarship Fund
The
Maurice and Grace Hanna Weinberg Scholarship Fund
The
Graham High School Scholarship Fund
The
Harman Masonic Lodge #222 fund
The James and
Rebecca Steorts Fund
The Joshua Lee Shutt
Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Kendrick
Scholarship Fund
The Lindsay Rebekah Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Max and Virginia Kammer Family Scholarship
The
Ralph H. and Shirley D. Kiser Family Scholarship Fund
The
Rose Sinicrope Fund;
The
Roy R. Raub M.D. Scholarship Fund
The
William G. Skewes Scholarship Fund
The
Scholarship Committee is chaired by Carole Dodson and includes
members Mary Azzo, Gene Bailey, Carl Gillespie, Eugenia Hancock,
Mary Raub, Jim Steorts, Susan Cooper-Snyder, Bettye VanDyke, and Susan
Whittaker.
Congratulations to all recipients,
and good luck in college!
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Featured Grant
Recipient:
Mercer County
Opportunity Industries
A Sandra Gayle
Monk Fund award of more than $1,900 for the purchase of a Printer-Ink Jet System
that will allow the MCOI to provide an additional training area as well as an
added income producer with improved environmental conditions.
Read more about it
Featured Grant Recipient:
Dollar Energy Fund
A $2,000 grant from the Community Foundation of
the Virginia's Fund for Mercer County assisted the West Virginia Utility
Assistance Program in assisting 158 Mercer County households, totaling 452
people.
Read more about it
Featured Grant Recipient:
Princeton Senior High School Band Boosters
The Princeton Senior High School Band Boosters utilized a $2,000 grant from the
Community Foundation to help fund the second annual "Southern Thunder" marching
band contest.
Read more about it
Officers,
Directors Elected at Foundation Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the
Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc., was held on Tuesday,
February 8, 2011, at the Foundation offices on North Street in Bluefield
during which the Board of Directors elected Officers for 2011 and a
class of Directors to serve until 2015.
The Foundation wishes to
express its appreciation for the service of four Board members whose
terms have ended: Marty Gearheart, Earl Goodwin, Shelley Keene-Hicks,
and Pat McCormick.
Officers elected for 2011
are: President, Charles Carter; Vice President, Julie Johnson;
Secretary, Betty Gardner Bailey; Treasurer, Matt Martin.
Directors re-appointed to
four-year terms are: Charlie Carter, Phyllis Beaver-Horwitz, Julie
Johnson, and Doris Sue Kantor. The Foundation is pleased to welcome
three new members to the Board: Lecia Smith, Rich Bezjak, and Susan
Whittaker.
The organization’s
success depends largely upon the efforts of its volunteer Officers,
Directors and Committee members, and truly appreciates the selfless
giving of their time and energy to the Foundation.
A complete listing of
Officers, members of the Board of Directors, and members of Committees,
as well as other information about the Foundation can be found on its
Web site: http://cfvinc.org.
The Community Foundation
was established to support the needs and interests of the people of
Mercer County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. The
organization annually returns approximately $100,000 through its
Scholarships and Grants programs.
Featured
Grant Recipient:
Bluefield, Virginia
Chargers Football Team
A $1,000 grant from the
Community Foundation helped the Bluefield, Virginia Chargers
football team purchase new equipment for this season.
Read more about it
Featured
Grant Recipient:
Read Aloud of Mercer
County
A $1,000 grant from the
Community Foundation helped make the Read Aloud program in Mercer County
possible. The project involves activities designed to make reading fun
and important in the lives of elementary school children.
Read more about it
Featured
Grant Recipient:
Child Protect of
Mercer County Body Safety Program
The Community Foundation
awarded Child Protect of Mercer County $2,000 for workbooks used in it's
"Body Safety" child abuse prevention education program.
Read more about it
Featured
Grant Recipient:
Mountain
Kids, Inc.
Tazewell County's
Mountain Kids, Inc. received a $1,000 grant from the Community
Foundation in support of its Kids Club art project.
Read more about it
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P.O. Box 4127 ● Bluefield, WV 24701
Phone: 304-324-0222
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