The Arkansas Community Foundation has announced the awarding of 618 mini grants of $1,000 each to nonprofits in the state from the entity’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, including 16 local groups.”These grants offer rapid response grants to give a necessary and quick injection of funds to nonprofits serving on the front lines of pandemic relief,” a spokesperson for the organization says.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared the foundation’s COVID-19 Relief Fund as the best choice for pandemic relief donations in the state. That announcement led leadership of both the Democratic and Republican parties of Arkansas coming together and encouraging their members and the general public to donate to the fund.
Twin Lakes Area nonprofits receiving grants include Food Bank of North Central Arkansas; Mountain Home Food Basket; Yellville Food Closet; Bull Shoals and Flippin Food Pantry; Holy Cross Lutheran Church Food Pantry; and the Evangelical Lutheran and Good Samaritan Society.
The list of local grant recipients also includes Arkansas State University-Mountain Home Food Pantry; Ozark Center for Hope; Serenity; Hope for ALL; Care Center Ministries; Innovation Center; First United Methodist Church Feeding Program; Real Life Church dba The Reach Center; Yellville School District; and Salem First Assembly Food Pantry.
“One nonprofit shared, ‘While we are still awaiting other promises of monetary aid, the check from Arkansas Community Foundation came immediately and was promptly put to use providing aid to elderly and hungry residents,'” says the Community Foundation.
For a complete list of COVID-19 mini grants recipients click here.
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