Record amount of grant money awarded, gifts received
During 2009, The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties, Inc. awarded 313 grants totaling more than $5.8 million to 139 not-for-profit organizations that serve the residents of Herkimer and Oneida counties; included in this is more than $93,000 in scholarships. Grants were made from a variety of funds such as unrestricted, family, corporate, donor-advised, field of interest and agency funds.
The largest grants made were three $100,000 awards. Utica College received one to purchase cutting-edge equipment for its biology laboratory. Masonic Medical Research Laboratory was awarded one as a challenge grant, also for the purpose of purchasing new research equipment. Valley Health Services received the third to create an Adult Day Health Care program at Little Falls Hospital.
Smaller projects such as flooring renovations at the Salvation Army buildings in Rome and Herkimer, the hiring of a research intern for the Little Falls Historical Society and replacing an inefficient boiler with a new money- and energy-saving model at the Sherrill-Kenwood Free Library were also supported by Community Foundation monies. A complete list of grants is online at foundationhoc.org/grantmaking/2009Grants.
The Foundation also received 1,633 gifts totaling $8,634,244, which surpasses records set in 2008, and 14 new funds were created. Three of these funds
