POUGHKEEPSIE – Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has announced the second round of 2022 funding awards, totaling $263,745, as part of the County’s Learn, Play, Create: Supporting Our Kids grant program, which will fund 16 projects for local non-profit organizations that directly benefit children and families.
Another 15 LPC awards will be announced in the coming weeks.
This year, $1 million in Learn, Play, Create grants was available, split over two application rounds, the first of which was announced earlier this year.
Grants of up to $20,000 were made available to non-profit organizations that directly serve youth in the areas of expanded learning, arts enrichment and sports engagement that were deprived of fundraising or participation due to the COVID-19 pandemic; last year, the LPC grant program provided $3 million in one-time grants to 147 similar local non-profit organizations.
The latest round of grant awardees includes:
- Arlington Lacrosse Developmental Club, Inc., $20,000
- Astor Services for Children & Families, $20,000
- BSA Troop 3042, $20,000
- Cardinal Hayes Home, $9,845
- Charlia Frank, $10,000
- City of Poughkeepsie Youth Football League, $18,900
- Cub Scout Pack 3040, $20,000
- FDR Cheerleading Booster Club, $12,500
- Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson Troop 10221, $20,000
- It Takes a Village Dutchess Inc., $10,000
- Love Holds Life, Inc., $10,000
- Overlook School Cub Pack 100, $20,000
- Poughkeepsie Rising, $20,000
- Roy Community Foundation, $20,000
- Southern Dutchess Patriots, $20,000
- The Growing STEMZ Foundation, $12,500
