For the first time, San Benito County paired with the Community
Foundation of San Benito County to review applications for
nonprofit funding to local groups.
HOLLISTER
For the first time, San Benito County paired with the Community Foundation of San Benito County to review applications for nonprofit funding to local groups.
At the board of supervisors meeting today, supervisors approved the findings presented by the foundation and awarded $82,102 to six different area nonprofits on a list of 84 applicants. The total allocation was about the same as previous years, an administration official said.
While the foundation already had awarded around $360,000 from funds outside the county to 49 nonprofit projects, County Administrative Officer Susan Thompson said involving the organization for the county’s annual allocation is a way to “leverage” funds for nonprofits.
“They have been looking at not only the use of county dollars but the use of other foundation funds, funds from outside foundations as well as local dollars,” Thompson said. “The beauty of this has been, that allocations committee has done their work so that they were looking at all the funding streams they had available and trying to coordinate those funds, leverage those dollars in such a way that we were ensuring that high-priority projects did get funded in this community.”
The nonprofits that were awarded county funds include $5,000 for Advocacy, Inc.; $25,000 for the Area Agency on Aging; $3,126 for the Community Food Bank of San Benito County; $5,476 for Foster Grandparents; $40,000 for Jovenes de Antano; and $3,500 for Senior Citizens Legal Services.
For the full story, see The Weekend Pinnacle on Friday. Below, you can view the latest installment of Hello Hollister featuring Anne Morris, a Community Foundation volunteer.
