Cape Area Community Foundation grants $3,100 to local nonprofits

John Ryan, CACF board treasurer; Soni Lloyd, Laci Poole, Wendy Ice and Michelle Ramsey, Community Counseling Center staff; Glenn (Skip) Smallwood, CACF board president; and Stan Irwin, CACF board member.

The Cape Area Community Foundation awarded a total of $3,100 to two nonprofits through its 2021 community grantmaking round.

Following an application process, these agencies were selected by a volunteer committee of citizens in the foundation’s service area. Nonprofit agencies with 501(c)3 or similar tax-exempt status like schools, faith-based organizations or governmental entities were eligible to apply for grants.

The CACF’s community grants were awarded to:

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri: $1,550 to provide temporary financial assistance for families in the Southeast Missouri service area.

John Ryan, CACF board treasurer; Mishea Culbreath and Bethany Beggs, Big Brothers Big Sisters staff; Glenn (Skip) Smallwood, CACF board president; and Stan Irwin, CACF board member.

• Community Counseling Center Foundation: $1,550 to cover the cost of Care Kits for Community Counseling Center CoNEXTions Street Outreach Program. SOP specifically serves the youth of “Southside” Cape Girardeau and is partially funded by the Administration of Children and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau’s Runaway and Homeless Youth Program.

For more information on these grants or to learn more about the CACF’s next grant round, please contact Judy Cantoni, east region manager with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, at jcantoni@cfozarks.org or (573) 803-1248.

If you wish to support the CACF’s work in the area, gifts to the CACF’s community grantmaking endowment will help increase the amount of future grant rounds. Go to cfozarks.org/capearea to make a secure online donation.

The Cape Area Community Foundation, founded in 2015, is a regional affiliate foundation of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. Established in 1973, the CFO is the region’s largest public charitable foundation that provides asset and resource development, grantmaking and public leadership across central and southern Missouri.