(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - A little over $11,000 was distributed among four Ketchikan non-profit organizations Friday May 6th by the Ketchikan Community Foundation – the first grant awards made by the Foundation, marking an historic milestone.

Foundation advisory board chair Christa Bruce, left, awards $2,500 to Ketchikan’s Special Olympics program.
Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Community Foundation

Since forming in 2013 the Foundation’s endowment fund has grown to about $260,000 and reached the point where it could afford to disperse funds, according to Tom Schulz, the Foundation’s grant committee chairman.

Members of the public look on as Ketchikan Community Foundation funds are awarded.
Photograph courtesy Ketchikan Community Foundation

Groups receiving the first funding include:

• Special Olympics Alaska, Ketchikan Community program -- $2,500, to fund travel and training for participants.
• Ketchikan Theatre Ballet -- $2,500, to support participation in the ballet program by economically challenged youth who otherwise wouldn’t be able to participate.
• Ketchikan Volunteer Hospice -- $5,000 to provide bereavement training for Hospice volunteers.
• Ketchikan Arts and Humanities Council -- $1,264 to help fund travel to the Basic Arts Institute in Juneau for 10 Ketchikan area teachers.

To help make it a public event, the awards presentation was done Friday evening at the Tongass Historical Museum as part of the Celebration of the Sea festivities.

Edited by Mary Kauffman, SitNews

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http://ketchikancf.org

 

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