The Bowling Green Community Foundation has announced its grant recipients for 2021 for implementation in 2022.
The Bowling Green Community Foundation, dedicated to improving the quality of life in Bowling Green, with the sole support of private donations, creates grants for Bowling Green area nonprofits to benefit from.
Over $50,000 will be awarded to Bowling Green nonprofits. The grants focus on educational or sports activities, health or safety initiatives, environmental sustainability, and the visual performing arts.
The Bowling Green Community Foundation 2021 recipients, implemented in 2022 include:
- Black Swamp Players: $2,500 will support a project titled, “Theater for Social Justice: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” which marks the 30th anniversary of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, specifically supporting the staging of community events around the topic of structural and systemic racism.
- Bowling Green Curling Club Inc.: This $1,500 grant funding will support the expansion of the Next Level: Junior Curling with the purchase of youth curling equipment, coaching curriculum and training aids that will enable more kids to get on the ice and reduce the cost of the programs.
- Bowling Green Parks & Recreation Foundation: $2,500 will support shade structures over the player bench and spectator seating at Eli Joyce Field in City Park to protect players and spectators from the sun and harmful UV rays during baseball games.
- Bowling Green Police Division: The awarding of this $5,000 grant funds the purchase of cameras to improve upon the existing surveillance camera network in downtown Bowling Green.
- Bowling Green State University (Center for Violence Prevention and Education): $3,000 in funding will support the Green Dot Initiative by offering more Green Dot bystander training workshops to BGSU and the Bowling Green area. The programs will encourage proactive, prosocial and actionable behaviors that will reduce and prevent instances of power-based personal violence.
- Bowling Green Youth Baseball at Carter Park: $2,500 in funds will go to adding an AED machine to the north facility. Funds will also add eight bleacher canopy coverings with supportive cables over independent sets of bleachers, constructed of high density knitted polyethylene for longevity.
- Brown Bag Food Project: The $3,543 in funding will allow for the purchase of a commercial freezer to provide frozen meat and dairy to clients.
- Falcon Food and Resource Community/Falcon Food Pantry: $1,000 in funding will allow for ad-hoc food security programs to be housed in one permanent place where students, faculty and staff in need can receive food. Falcon Food Pantry will also be engaging in programming on campus and the community on issues related to food insecurity.
- Friend of the Wood County Parks: $2,508 in funding will be used to add three AEDs for two park properties, the Carter Historic Farm and Wood County District Headquarters, to keep visitors safe.
- Girl Scouts of Western Ohio: $825 in funding will provide financial assistance and programming supplies to approximately 60 Girl Scout members in the area. The Girl Scouts mission provides girls with courage, confidence, and character, helping them make the world a better place.
- NAMI Wood County: $5,000 in funding will focus on providing training for facilitators in the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) course, increasing peer programming for Wood County.
- Sleek Academy PTO: $5,000 in funding would help continue to create a space for creativity and exploration for students.
- St. Mark’s Lutheran Church: $1,650 in funding will help support an art appreciation program for the upcoming childcare/preschool program. Children will develop a foundational knowledge of artists, cultures, media and basics of art theory.
- The Cocoon: $3,082 in funding would help support The Cocoon’s use of safe communication for survivors using untraceable TracFones and airtime cards. TracFones can be a situation of life and death for survivors to reach out in moments of personal crisis. Cocoon supplies approximately 35 TracFones and 100 airtime cards each year.
- The Parklet Project: $3,750 in funding allows for the development of “Dog Leg Alley,” located next to Finders Records adjacent to City Lot 1 and wraps around to Amish Deli. The Parklet Project plans to revitalize this space by adding a wood pergola, improving the lighting, and adding public art, seating and signage that commemorates the history of the space.
- Wood County Prevention Coalition: $3,000 in funds would help satisfy the Safe Celebrations program, which is multifaceted strategy which allows Bowling Green High School students and their parents to be safer during landmark moments. This program betters those odds.
- Wood Lane Industries: $442.68 in funding will provide Wood Lane Industries with money to purchase seating and for other entertainment needs for the Bowling Green Farmers Market. With the increase in attendance at the weekly markets, there is a need for more seating.
- Wood Lane Residential Services: Wood Lane Residential Services serve approximately 230 individuals with developmental/intellectual disabilities. The $3,000 grant will create a technology-based learning and inclusive interaction space in Wood Lane Residential Service’s new building for the Positive Community Connections program, including the purchase of a Smart Board, tablets and accessories.
- Janis L. Pallister Fund/Wood County Public Library: $558.59 in funds given directly to the Wood County District Public Library to purchase video tapes, with an emphasis on foreign films.
Established in 1994, the Bowling Green Community Foundation exists to improve the quality of life in the Bowling Green area by providing funding and support for diverse and innovative programs. For more information on the Bowling Green Community Foundation or ways to donate, go to www.bgohcf.org.
