Featuring the 11th Annual Grant Recipient Breakfast

On July 11th, at the Nantucket Hotel, we held our annual Nantucket Fund™ Grant Recipient Breakfast. The event was sponsored by BNY Mellon Wealth Management. This year, we had the pleasure of awarding $160,475 to 22 nonprofit recipients.
Annually CFN convenes members of the Nantucket community to identify and discuss the most pressing current needs, a practice that allows our Grants Committee to be strategic in grant making around priorities set by our community. Here is where our grant dollars were directed this year.

The Grant Breakfast is our favorite day of the year because the recipients all tell their story of how they will be using the grant dollars throughout the  year. We heard from Wynter who told us how much Nantucket STAR means to him and from Courtney Bridges, Executive Director of Small Friends Nantucket, who shared how a family was reunited this summer because of an opening at Small Friends.

Nantucket Fund™ grants were directed to the following projects and programs this year:

HOUSING

• Capacity Building & HVAC Systems for new homes, Habitat for Humanity
• Public Education & Media Outreach Programs, Housing Nantucket
• The Community Investment Tax Credit Program, Housing Nantucket
• Short-Term Rental Assistance for the Nantucket Rental Assistance Program , Nantucket Food, Fuel, & Rental Assistance

MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE

• Victims of Crime Act grant support for a full-time Trauma Therapist, A Safe Place, Inc.
• Janina Kean, Family Awareness Program, Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention
• Fairwinds Professional Development Institute, Fairwinds – Nantucket’s Counseling Center
• Healing through the Creative Process, Artists Association of Nantucket
• Guiding Good Choices – Drug Prevention Training for Families, Gosnold Inc.

DIVERSITY INITIATIVES

• Ready Set Read Program & Parental Empowerment Series, Nantucket Community School
• Brazilian and Bulgarian Dance Programs, Nantucket Music Center
• Translation Services for Nature Trails, Linda Loring Nature Foundation

YOUTH AND RECREATION

• Children’s Theatre Program, Nantucket Dreamland Foundation
• Sensory Art & Cross Fit Programs, Nantucket STAR
• Boys & Girls Club Sailing & Water-Sport Classes, Nantucket Community Sailing

EDUCATION & CHILDCARE

• PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools, Nantucket Book Foundation
• Sea of Opportunities with Nantucket Public Schools, Egan Maritime Institute
• Mike Smith Live – Motivational Speaker Series, Friends of Nantucket Public Schools
• Humane Education Program, Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals
• Extended Hours in Infant Room, Small Friends on Nantucket

HEALTH/ MEDICINE

• Immigrant & community engagement initiatives, Increased health, nutrition, and family services, and bilingual reproductive health counselor, Health Imperatives, Inc
• Be Well Children’s Health, Nantucket Cottage Hospital

FOOD / NUTRITION

• Fresh Food Produce Program at Nantucket Food Panty, Nantucket Food, Fuel, & Rental Assistance

CFN Executive Director Margaretta Andrews said, “It is our honor to support the incredible work being done every day by these organizations.  The Community Foundation is Nantucket’s social impact partner that is in touch with the community’s greatest needs, and helps people and organizations work together to fill the gaps so everyone feels good about improving lives.”

Special thanks to our Nantucket Fund™ business sponsors: Toscana Corporation, Cape Air, Rogers & Gray Insurance, Arbella Insurance, our many multi-year individual donors, and our breakfast sponsor, BNY Mellon Wealth Management. In addition, many thanks to The Nantucket Hotel for making their space available.

Interested to learn more how the Community Foundation and the Nantucket Fund™ help ALL of Nantucket? From mental health assistance to affordable housing solutions and after-school care, visit The Nantucket Fund™ page here or MAKE A GIFT today!