Twin Lakes Community Foundation, an affiliate of Arkansas Community Foundation, recently announced $26,200 in Giving Tree Grants had been awarded to nonprofits in Marion, Fulton, Izard and Baxter counties. These grant awards were presented on April 23 at Big Creek Golf and Country Club in Mountain Home.
“Since 2003, our Giving Tree has awarded more than $300,000 in grants to a large variety of nonprofit organizations across the Twin Lakes area,” says Kimberly Jones, the executive director of the Twin Lakes Community Foundation.
Heather Larkin, president and CEO of the Community Foundation, says that the Giving Tree program helps Arkansans support a variety of needs in their hometowns.
“Funding for our Giving Tree grants comes from local individuals and families who want to improve their community,” Larkin says. “We invest their donations in endowments that provide a permanent source of funding for local charitable causes.”
The most recent grant recipients include:
– Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, to set up a meeting room up as a game/study room for students and their children;
– Child Care Aware of Northcentral Arkansas, to purchase equipment and supplies to offer courses in CPR and first aid;
– Cotter School District, to provide headphones and sanitary headphone covers for an underserved portion of its students;
– First United Methodist Church of Mountain Home-Backpack Food 4 Kids, to help pay for a new air and heating system;
– Pineville Fire Department, to purchase structure fire gloves, reflective vests and glove keepers;
– White River Area Agency on Aging, to purchase an ice machine for the Mammoth Spring Senior Life Center, located in Fulton County;
– Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund-Baxter County, to provide scholarships to single parents in Baxter County who are seeking secondary education or a trade school licensure or certificate;
– Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund-Izard County, to provide scholarships to single parents in Izard County who are seeking secondary education or a trade school licensure or certificate;
– Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund-Fulton County, to provide scholarships to single parents in Fulton County who are seeking secondary education or a trade school licensure or certificate;
– Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund-Marion County, to provide scholarships to single parents in Marion County who are seeking secondary education or a trade school licensure or certificate;
– Amanda Gist Elementary School To purchase hygiene care and school items to have available for students to “Take what you need” in a grab-and-go type atmosphere;
– Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry, to pay for the shelf stable snack sticks for the weekend backpack program.
– Baxter County Library Foundation, to pay for 160 additional Baxter County children ages 0 to 5 years old to receive books from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library for 1 year;
– Junior Auxiliary of Mountain Home, to build upon its Reading is Fun project;
– Ozark Center of Hope, to help clients who have fallen behind in their rent;
– Ozark Mission Project, to build wheelchair ramps, porches, steps and paint houses for low-income families, including elderly individuals in the Twin Lakes Area;
– Salvation Army (Mountain Home), to purchase additional meat to distribute with Food Boxes to families and individuals seeking assistance in our service area;
– Twin Lakes Literacy Council, to purchase two laptops to help increase the capacity to tutor students;
– Yellville-Summit School’s Food for Thought Backpack Program, to help students from kindergarten through 12th grade that are served by the backpack program.
Twin Lakes Community Foundation makes grants through the Giving Tree program twice a year. The next grant cycle will begin July 10. More information about Community Foundation grants is available at arcf.org.
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