Central WA Disability Resource
$ 5,250 to support one of its programs, Alley Cat Artists, which cultivates creativity and vocational skills for persons with disabilities through such classes as printmaking, drawing, bookbinding, arts business management and mixed media. This grant will support an Arts Supply Fund.
Children’s Activity Museum
$ 5,000 to support a new theatre area, designed to increase exposure to the arts, mostly for an audience of 2 – 10 year olds. The “theatre” will be used by artists, musicians, guest speakers, etc.
Clymer Museum of Art
$ 4,000 to hire a part-time archivist to develop an organized, usable system that can create copies of archival materials without compromising the originals.
Gallery One
$ 2,000 to purchase security cameras and mirrors to deter theft and/or vandalism at the gallery to assure artists that their work is safe.
Building Changes
$ 45,000 to help homeless families transition into permanent housing, including the provision of services for training and educational opportunities that lead to stability.
Catholic Charities Housing Services
$ 25,000 to support the city of Mabton in building a community park. Funds will help with what Mabton residents prioritized as the #1 need: a volleyball court and an open play area for children.
Comprehensive
$ 5,000 to support the Families and Children Experiencing Success program which is a treatment foster care program which provides intensive, individually-tailored mental health services for youth between the ages of 3 and 17 who reside in a licensed therapeutic foster home during treatment.
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy
$ 20,000 to help launch a new program entitled “Project Butterfly” at Snow Mountain Ranch, aimed at bringing families into contact with common and rare species of butterflies. The project provides research, education and conservation as well as a new “green business” opportunity to help propagate and sell native plants the butterflies require.
Entrust Community Services
$ 20,000 to support a vehicle that can accommodate up to four wheelchairs at the same time. This will help with transporting wheelchair users’ to-and-from Adult Day Health programs and for high school students to-and-from their employment sites.
EPIC
$ 25,000 to help provide fun play equipment, educational tools, and a sensory pathway that support healthy physical activity at EPIC’s Sunnyside Learning Center which has a large, mostly empty fenced-in play area in dire need of updating.
Friends of Buena Library
$ 19,700 - Over the past seven years, volunteers have led a myriad of efforts in order to construct a new library for the community of Buena. This effort is now a reality and YVCF funds will supply folding tables and chairs, mobile shelving and other furnishings and equipment for the new center.
Larson Gallery Guild
$ 12,000 - Print Arts is experiencing a resurgence in popularity and the hope is to re-introduce the Print Arts as a course in the YVCC Visual Arts Department. Funds will help with the purchase of an Etching Press, Press Accessories and start-up supplies.
Mending Wings
$ 15,000 to help support two Act Six site directors who provide leadership development to Native American students which serves 7 – 10 of the Valley’s most promising, emerging leaders each year as part of a cadre that will attend Heritage University.
Northwest Communities Education Center
$ 40,000 to support the purchase of an air-conditioning unit at the transmitter station. KDNA’s programming is frequently interrupted because the transmitter overheats, depriving the audience of important programs.
Nuestra Casa
$ 15,000 to support the education of immigrant women by providing essential Adult Basic Education classes in Reading and Math and Advanced English as a Second Language classes that will prepare them to study for and receive their GED in English and to take college level classes.
People for People
$ 19,000 - The Senior Nutrition Program formerly sponsored by Yakima County, is now a new program of PFP. Grant funds will help to launch the start-up of the program, including the hiring of a part-time Volunteer Coordinator for one year to coordinate the delivery of meals.
Tieton Arts and Humanities
$ 2,800 - Upper Yakima Valley communities have had very little exposure to cultural and artistic programs and resources and in order to strengthen the awareness of its programs and events, funds will used to support these artistic efforts.
Union Gospel Mission
$ 50,000 to support the purchase of state-of-the-art dental equipment needed for the expansion of UGM dental services at the Yakima site; which will serve the volunteer dentists, hygienists and patients with quality care for years to come.
Whitman College
$ 11,000 - The State of the State for Washington Latinos is a project in which students conduct research in collaboration with community partners. This grant will help to fund a portion of the 2012 project to research educational issues regarding English language learners throughout the Yakima Valley.
Yakima Greenway Foundation
$ 6,250 to support the Courtesy Cart program, which benefits Greenway patrons by providing a heightened sense of security on and around the premises, aiding in the reduction of vandalism and crime, while creating a friendly environment for pathway visitors.
Yakima Valley Hearing & Speech Center
$ 11,000 to help fund the replacement of an audiometer, which is 15 years old, to ensure the accuracy of hearing evaluations.
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation
$ 40,000 to support a Jesuit Volunteer and provide training for 50 volunteers for the new community-based palliative care model (Transitions) that offers comfort-focused, in-home services for people with a life-limiting, progressive or terminal diagnosis of two years or less.
YWCA of Yakima
$ 16,000 to support the purchase of equipment and technical components for its new on-site Community Resource Center, which primarily serves homeless survivors of domestic violence.
2011 Grants from the Helen N. Jewett Endowment
Central WA Ag Museum
$ 10,000 - The Ag Museum has created an educational program for school groups and this new program will dramatically increase the number of young people served. Funds will help support ‘interactive’ opportunities for visitors with the purchase of audio visual equipment and supplemental display supplies of raw products to provide ‘hands-on’ demonstrations.
Comprehensive
$ 10,000 to support Two Rivers Landing which is a 16-bed Youth Residential Treatment Facility for youth ages 11 to17 that are in crisis. Typically, youth are experiencing serious depression, have attempted suicide or at high risk of doing so, or have experienced their first psychotic moment. Funds will provide therapy items for use in the “sensory room” which has activities that use and stimulate the five senses – a unique feature of the facility.
Friends in Tieton
$ 2,000 to support the planning of soccer camps and clinics and to purchase balls and nets now that there is a new soccer field in the middle of town which is safely away from busy streets.
Junior Achievement
$ 23,000 to support JA Biz Town and JA Finance Park. JA works with schools and businesses to build strong, viable partnerships that focus on three areas: financial literacy, entrepreneurship and work readiness. This program is now underway in Yakima County, and is open to all students.
Yakima Area Arboretum
$5,000 – 'River Critters' natural history program is the first phase to build an interpretive exhibit that introduces people to the native animal and plant life in the Yakima River's riparian zone. This outreach program will take River Critters to classrooms and educational events. Funds will support the infrastructure to travel and display the animals which will also include interpretive materials for students and teachers.
2011 Grants from Donor Directed Funds
| Allied Arts of Yakima Valley |
$ 1,200.00 |
| ALS Association, Evergreen Chapter |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Carroll Children's Center |
$ 1,621.47 |
| East Valley Dollars for Scholars |
$ 1,000.00 |
| Heritage University |
$ 2,500.00 |
| KYVE TV |
$ 1,000.00 |
| Rotary New Zealand World Community Service |
$ 1,000.00 |
| Salvation Army |
$ 2,000.00 |
| So. Central WA Resource Conservation |
$ 1,500.00 |
| So. Central WA Resource Conservation |
$ 8,162.00 |
| The Seasons Performance Hall |
$ 5,000.00 |
| Washington Bus Education Fund |
$ 500.00 |
| Yakima Neighborhood Health Services |
$ 1,000.00 |
| Yakima Symphony Orchestra |
$ 5,500.00 |
| Yakima Symphony Orchestra |
$ 5,500.00 |
| Yakima Town Hall |
$ 5,000.00 |
| Yakima Valley Community Band |
$ 2,000.00 |
| YV Memorial Hospital Charitable Fdn. |
$ 1,000.00 |
| YV Memorial Hospital Charitable Fdn. |
$ 25,000.00 |
| Yakima Valley Museum |
$ 1,000.00 |