Funded Programs

Supporting local initiatives that create lasting impact and improve lives within our community.

Healthy Community

Children’s Home Society of West Virginia

Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne and Mason counties. Providing food, clothing and infant essentials through a resource center that serves 5,000 people.

 

$20,000

Community Mission outreach

Serving Lawrence and Gallia counties. Providing food, clothing and personal care items through a pantry that serves 10,000 people. Grant covers the cost of potatoes and onions, and home delivery for individuals that have no transportation.

 

$13,500

Court Street Ministries

Serving Gallia County. Providing food to 3,000 people from a pantry, which includes boxed meals and hot meals.

 

$20,000

Cridlin Food and Clothing pantry

Serving Cabell and Wayne counties. Providing personal care items and infant essentials through a pantry that serves 4,000 low-income individuals.

 

$20,000

Facing Hunger Foodbank

Providing food for their Lincoln County Backpack Program for eight schools in Lincoln County. Serves 1,500 people in Lincoln County

 

$15,000

Gabriel Project of WV

Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason and Gallia counties. Providing infant essentials to rural areas that have little to no community resources. Serving 1,200 individuals with car seats, diapers, specialty formulas, etc. Including a new site at Leon United Methodist Church in Mason County.

 

$14,200

God’s Hands at Work

Serving Mason and Gallia County. Providing infant essentials to 450 individuals including car seats, diapers, baby clothing, formula, etc.

 

$20,000

Harmony House

Serving Cabell, Wayne and Lawrence counties. Providing 4,000 hot meals, 500 prescriptions filled, 1,000 showers and laundry services, 20 nights of emergency shelter/hotel nights during inclement weather, and 15 utility payments to help prevent homelessness. Helping to serve 1,350 unique individuals.

 

$10,000

Hamlin-Lincoln County Public library

Serving Lincoln County. The Healthy Senior Living Program includes chair yoga at all three library locations, Hatha yoga for strength and flexibility, holistic healing workshops, nutrition education classes and walking clubs. Serving 300 individuals.

 

$7,500

Huntington City Mission

The Community Feeding Program helps serve hot meals to 3,000 individuals who are experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Wayne, and Lawrence Counties.

 

$20,000

RLB Ministries/Backpack Buddies

Serving Lawrence County. Providing food to 750 individuals who range from preschool students to high school students in 19 schools in Lawrence County.

 

$20,000

St. Peter’s Episcopal Community Outreach

Serving Cabell County. Providing 1,400 individuals with food and personal care items through their give box and seasonal boxes. 300 summer care bags and 300 winter care bags will be supplied.

 

$20,000

Harvest for the Hungry

Serving Lawrence County. This program helps offer seniors nutrition drinks that help supplement nutrients needed. Serving 6,638 people.

 

$20,000

Wayne County Community Services Org.

Serving Wayne County. Providing food and personal care items 210 people at their Fort Gay Food Pantry.

 

$4,000

The Salvation Army of Huntington

Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, and Wayne counties. Providing 200 individuals with food and 50 households with utility assistance.

 

$20,000

FaithHealth Appalachia 

Serving 1,000 people in Cabell County. This grant will fund the Cabell Care Tree Project through the Cabell County Family Resource Network program. Cabell Care Trees are wooden, tree-shaped shelving units placed in high-traffic community locations including 3 Cabell County Schools, the Cabell-Huntington Health Department, and the Ronald McDonald House. These units will be stocked with essential basic needs items including personal hygiene products, baby supplies, household cleaning supplies, and menstrual health items.

 

$5,000

Youth Opportunity

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri-State

Growing mentorship opportunities for Tri-State youth by providing children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better. Serving Cabell, Mason, Wayne, and Lawrence Counties.


$35,000

Field of Hope

Serving Mason, Gallia and Lawrence Counties. The Resilient Youth program offers an after-school program that provides work training and entry programs as well as alcohol and substance abuse counseling if needed.

 

$35,000

Hamlin-Lincoln County Public Library 

Serving Cabell, Lincoln, and Wayne counties with their Filling in the Education Gaps program. Supporting their story time hour and summer reading and helping to launch a new Homework Help and Family Literacy Program across all three library locations. The homework help program will offer after school academic support. The Family Literacy Program will offer caregiver engagement and resources including GED preparation.

 

$22,500

John w. Hereford Boys and Girls Club of Huntington

Serving Cabell County. Power Hour program serves ages 6-18 by offering a dedicated academic enrichment program that focuses on schoolwork tutoring and activities designed to blend learning and fun. Each child also receives a hot meal.

$35,000

Mason County Public Library 

Serving Mason and Gallia counties. Supporting KidsConnect, a program that aims to increase school readiness and maintain target grade level reading. This program will serve all three branches in Mason Country and support their Story Time program, Discovery Zone, Kids Connect Summer Edition and providing additional books for all three programs.

 

$10,000

Lily’s Place

Serving Cabell County and Lincoln County. Offering an on-site and mobile prevention and mentorship program for children 10-18 years that also includes outreach events to help create positive core memories and a sense of belonging in the community. Serving 125 individuals.

$35,000

Financial Security

Catholic Charities West Virginia

Emergency Assistance Program serving Cabell and Wayne counties. Providing utility assistance to 50 households primarily in Cabell and Wayne Counties (power bills, sewer, water, gas, etc.) for homes at primarily 150% or below the federal poverty level.

$10,000

Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA Area, Inc.

Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, and Wayne counties. Their Community Prosperity Services program offers financial literacy education, life skills training and digital literacy aimed to help community members gain employment and financial stability.

$35,000

Tri-State Literacy Council

Serving Cabell, Mason, Wayne and Lawrence counties. Providing free one-to-one tutoring, on and offline programming, and classroom instruction to adult learners with a professional or educational goal.

 

$25,000

Community Resiliency

Branches Domestic Violence Shelter

Providing utility assistance for emergency safe shelter for victims of domestic violence. Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Wayne, and Lawrence Counties.

$20,000