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The El Dorado Community Foundation awarded $66,000 in grant funds to 36 local youth programs during the 2009 grant awards ceremony at the Inn by the Lake.
Earlier this year, the foundation sought grant proposals from any group whose program enhances the education enrichment programs for children in local schools. A total of 69 requests were received, with the final grant recipients selected by cabinet members Mark Acri, Wendy David, Bob Novasel, Terry Finney, Karen Houser and Doug Rosner.
The youth grant awards were made possible by the Joan Rochelle Memorial Fund and the South Lake Tahoe area fund at the foundation.
At the end of the ceremony, Bill Roby, executive director of the foundation, said, “As I was driving over the hill into the Tahoe valley, I could see the meadows full of fall color and was thinking of the transformation that was pending with the winter storm coming in tomorrow.
“Now, tonight, here with all of you, I see another transformation — the transformation of young lives — thanks to one woman with a big heart, Joan Rochelle,” he added.
Before Rochelle died in 2006, she bequeathed some of her estate to the foundation in the form of the Joan Rochelle Memorial Fund.
The organizations receiving grants were the H.E.R.O. Scholarship Fund, Circle of Hope, Sports Connections, CASA El Dorado, Tahoe Arts Project, Boys & Girls Club of South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County Library, South Lake Tahoe branch, Tahoe Youth & Family Services, Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra, Bringing Arts to Schools, Kiwanis of Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Shining Stars, Bijou Community School (three grants), South Tahoe High School (two grants), South Lake Tahoe Children's Choral Society, Tahoe Valley Elementary School (three grants), Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation, Sierra Tahoe Children's Theatre, Sierra House, Lake Tahoe Unified School District (two grants) and South Tahoe Middle School (eight grants).
The El Dorado Community Foundation is a nonprofit charity for El Dorado County. They pool gifts from donors, invest the funds, and return the profits back to the community in the form of grants to nonprofits, schools and service organizations serving El Dorado County. The principal keeps growing, thereby creating a permanent funding stream.
For more information about the foundation, visit www.eldoradocf.org.
Earlier this year, the foundation sought grant proposals from any group whose program enhances the education enrichment programs for children in local schools. A total of 69 requests were received, with the final grant recipients selected by cabinet members Mark Acri, Wendy David, Bob Novasel, Terry Finney, Karen Houser and Doug Rosner.
The youth grant awards were made possible by the Joan Rochelle Memorial Fund and the South Lake Tahoe area fund at the foundation.
At the end of the ceremony, Bill Roby, executive director of the foundation, said, “As I was driving over the hill into the Tahoe valley, I could see the meadows full of fall color and was thinking of the transformation that was pending with the winter storm coming in tomorrow.
“Now, tonight, here with all of you, I see another transformation — the transformation of young lives — thanks to one woman with a big heart, Joan Rochelle,” he added.
Before Rochelle died in 2006, she bequeathed some of her estate to the foundation in the form of the Joan Rochelle Memorial Fund.
The organizations receiving grants were the H.E.R.O. Scholarship Fund, Circle of Hope, Sports Connections, CASA El Dorado, Tahoe Arts Project, Boys & Girls Club of South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County Library, South Lake Tahoe branch, Tahoe Youth & Family Services, Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra, Bringing Arts to Schools, Kiwanis of Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Shining Stars, Bijou Community School (three grants), South Tahoe High School (two grants), South Lake Tahoe Children's Choral Society, Tahoe Valley Elementary School (three grants), Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation, Sierra Tahoe Children's Theatre, Sierra House, Lake Tahoe Unified School District (two grants) and South Tahoe Middle School (eight grants).
The El Dorado Community Foundation is a nonprofit charity for El Dorado County. They pool gifts from donors, invest the funds, and return the profits back to the community in the form of grants to nonprofits, schools and service organizations serving El Dorado County. The principal keeps growing, thereby creating a permanent funding stream.
For more information about the foundation, visit www.eldoradocf.org.
