CFV 2024 Annual Report

Impact in Action 2024 AWARDED GRANTS

$482,096.54

EDUCATION GRANTS Appalachian South Folklife Center’s Learning Day Camp F or supplies for the Learning Day Camp $4,000.00 Unrestricted Fund Bluefield Primary School For the purchase of four tables for classroom $1,646.35 Judge Jerome and Hilda R. Katz Memorial Fund; Warren Ashby and Elizabeth Featherstone Thornhill Memorial Fund; Helen Louise Payne and Henry Pleasant Cofer Fund for Bluefield, WV Bluefield University Department of Communication Arts For the annual cost of the RAMPAGE

Chamber of Commerce of the Two Virginias - Reading Bee To support Mercer and Tazewell County Reading Bees $4,500.00 Unrestricted Fund; Bluefield Daily Telegraph Literacy Fund To directly support CIS-AH school based programming in Tazewell County (this grant cannot be used for salaries, taxes, or employee benefits) $2,500.00 Charles A. and Marjorie M. Peters Fund Community Connections, Inc. To partner with first responders to provide educational programs at The Wade Center to change perception of law enforcement $3,083.00 Ghia M. Borg Memorial Fund Mercer County Read Aloud To purchase books and materials needed for the “Leap Into Science” program with various stations and snacks $3,400.00 Fund for Mercer County Communities In Schools of Appalachian Highlands

publication $3,000.00 Unrestricted Fund

Bluefield University’s New Opportunity School for Women To provide educational experiences and room and board for participants $1,275.00 Alfred and Shirley Wampler Caudill Endowment Fund

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