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Schoolcraft Community Foundation awards grants

MANISTIQUE — The Schoolcraft County Community Foundation Board of Directors approved five mini grants totaling $5,808.37 in its spring grant round on May 6.

Based on Youth Advisory Council recommendations, the board awarded two from the Kellogg Fund: $1,550 to the Schoolcraft County Fair Association for a Summer Day Camp and After School Program introducing activities such as yoga, music and movement, tumbling and gymnastics to its program; and $1,000 to Zion Lutheran Church for the Backpack Buddies Program which provides food for children involved in the program.

SCCF also awarded $1,440 to the Eva Burrell Animal Shelter to help fund a Community Spay and Neuter Program with funding to come from the Humane Society Fund; $818.37 to the Upper Peninsula Film Union to purchase ‘feather flag’ signs to announce free drive-in movie showings with funding from the Unrestricted Fund; and $1,000 to the Manistique Lions Club to help purchase a new food trailer with $350 from the Lions Club Fund and $650 from the Unrestricted Fund.

Three scholarships were also awarded and were presented at Manistique Area Schools’ Honors Night, May 22, by President Laurie Jasmin and Vice President Rick Wodzinski.

The $500 Hughes Scholarship was awarded to Jessica DiPiazza of Gulliver, who plans to attend Grand Valley State. Two Prine Scholarships of $2,000 each were awarded to Brett Boyd, who will attend Bay de Noc Community College to study geographic information systems, and to Heather Ullom, who will attend Northern Michigan University to study radiology. The $500 Villemure Scholarship was awarded to Haley Bingham, who will attend NMU’s cosmetology program.

In addition to 12 designated, or “donor advised,” funds, the community foundation may provide mini-grants from an unrestricted fund. The community foundation awards grants twice a year, in May and November. Deadlines for applications are March 31 and September 30 of each year. Applicants are asked to use the SCCF application form, which can be downloaded from our Facebook page or picked up at the Pioneer Tribune office.

Over the past decade, the foundation has given more than $160,800 to local organizations and individuals in grants and scholarships.

For more information on contributing to the Schoolcraft County Community Foundation or applying for a mini-grant, write to the foundation at P.O. Box 452, Manistique, MI 49854 or e-mail at sccommunityfoundation@gmail.com.

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