$158K In Grants Awarded To Bucks County Nonprofits

DOYLESTOWN, PA — Eighteen nonprofit organizations serving Bucks County have been awarded $158,400 in grants, including 10 Bucks Innovation and Improvement Grants (BIIG) and eight Capital Improvement Grants, by the Board of Directors of the Foundations Community Partnership (FCP).

BIIGs recognize innovative programs and ideas to improve the lives of children, young adults, and families, while Capital Improvement Grants support structural improvements to facilities, durable equipment, and technology upgrades.

“We appreciate the opportunity to support the important work these nonprofits do in our community,” said Abigail Halloran, who chairs FCP’s Board of Directors. “Collectively, these organizations will help 7,724 Bucks County residents by expanding services and infrastructure.”

BIIGs totaling $103,400 were awarded to the following non-profit organizations:

• Bethany Christian Services of the Greater Delaware Valley. Funding will help resettle Ukrainian refugees in Bucks County.

• Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22. Funding will provide STEAM scholarships to public high school students for field trips to Fab Lab.

• Hands Holding Hearts. Funding will offer grief counseling to children, youth, and families.

• Heritage Conservancy. Funding will help create outdoor learning space for social emotional learning.

• National Giving Alliance. Funding will provide age, gender, and size appropriate clothing.

• Operation Pathways. Funding will build upon a successful multi-generational, housing-based makerspace program that focuses on STEM learning and self-efficacy for the whole family.

• Snipes Farm & Education Center. Funding will serve K-5 students in the Morrisville School District through the “Healthy Food, Healthy Us” program.

• Special Equestrians. Funding will expand the Hippotherapy program.

• Travis Manion Foundation. Funding will support interested Bucks County schools as they formalize student-led clubs.

• Valley Youth House Committee. Funding will support behavioral health and wellness needs for transition-age youth.

In addition, Capital Improvement Grants totaling $55,000 were awarded to the following non-profit organizations:

• Ann Silverman Community Health Clinic. Funding will add two behavioral health counseling rooms.

• Central Bucks School District. Funding will purchase a walk-in refrigerator to store food provided to needy families.

• Churchville Nature Center. Funding will expand the Butterfly House to include a botanical garden.

• Family Service Association of Bucks County. Funding will provide security upgrades for homeless shelter.

• Grand View Health Foundation. Funding will support four new patient-at-risk rooms.

• Keystone Opportunity Center. Funding will complete needed renovations in affordable housing units.

• The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania. Funding will purchase and install a generator for the Women's Recovery Community Center.

• YMCA of Bucks and Hunterdon counties. Funding will support a wheelchair basketball program for disabled individuals.