Grants
Over the last five years, the Jewish Community Foundation’s grant process has awarded over $1.36 million to fund various organizations and initiatives within the Quad-Cities area. Major areas of interest included: basic services, education, and the arts. Recipients included:
Basic Services Awarded over $300,000: This category included the Boys & Girls Club of Central Arizona ($37,000), the Coalition for Compassion and Justice ($36.400), Yavapai County Education Services Association ($32,700), the Hungry Kids Programs in Chino Valley and Dewey ($23,000), Prescott Area Shelter Services ($20,600) and the Paulden Food Bank ($10,000).
Education Awarded over $1,010,000: This category included the What You Do Matters Law Enforcement Program ($495,000), the Community Healthcare Scholars’ Program at Yavapai College ($100,000), the Prescott Unified School District ($187,000), the Humboldt Unified School District ($100,000), the Chino Valley Unified School District ($29,000) and the Yavapai County Free Library ($25,000).
The Arts Awarded over $42,000: This category included funding for the Main Street Theater for the Prescott Valley Performing Arts ($37,500), Prescott POPS Symphony ($4,500) and the Prescott Chorale ($2,100).
The Jewish Community Foundation has also provided grants to Temple B’rith Shalom and the Chabad of Prescott.
Past Grant Recipients
Listed below are many of the organizations that have received grants from the Foundation:
Adult Care Services
ALS-Teen’s Closet
American Red Cross
Arizona Crisis Team (ACT) (Formerly: Trauma Intervention Program)
Arizona Philharmonic
Armed to Know
Boys and Girls Clubs
Boys to Men Mentoring
CASA for Kids
Catholic Charities (North Star Youth Partnership)
Child Haven
Chino Valley Education Foundation
Chino Valley Food Bank
Coalition for Compassion & Justice (CCJ)
Community Pregnancy Center
Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary
Highlands Center for Natural History
Humboldt Education Foundation
Humboldt Unified Food & Nutrition Program
Hungry Kids
Imagination Library of the Prescott Area
Kind Defined
Margret T. Morris Center
MATFORCE
New Horizons
Northland Cares
Paulden Food Bank
People Who Care
Polara Health (Formerly: West Yavapai Guidance Clinic)
Prescott Area Shelter Services (PASS)
Prescott Center for the Arts
Prescott Chorale
Prescott Community Cupboard
Prescott Meals on Wheels
Prescott POPS Symphony
Prescott Public Library
Prescott Valley Active Adult Center
Prescott Valley Early Bird Lions Foundation
Prescott Valley Performing Arts
Project Aware
PUSD Foundation
Song of the Pines
Special Olympics
St.Vincent DePaul
Stepping Stones
Turning Point
United Animal Friends
Yavapai County Education Foundation
Yavapai County Free Library
Yavapai County Sheriff’s Response Team
Yavapai County Sheriff’s Search Dog Unit
Yavapai Family Advocacy Center
Yavapai Food Bank
Past Grant Recipients – Schools
Listed below are many of the community schools that have received grants from the Foundation:
ASCEND Autism School
Bradshaw Mountain High School
Chino Valley High School
Coconino Community College
Del Rio Elementary
Discovery Gardens Preschool
Granite Mountain Upper Elementary School
Heritage Middle School
Lake Valley Elementary School
Liberty Traditional School
Mile High Middle School
Mountain View Elementary School
Prescott High School
Pronghorn Ridge Middle School
Yavapai College