Gore region community fund announces 2024 grant awards
Nearly $40,000 distributed to 24 community organizations
Monday, Sept. 16, 2024
Two dozen organizations serving towns across the Gore Mountain region have been awarded grants in support of community programs and projects.
The grants were awarded by the Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Region (CFGMR), a component fund of Adirondack Foundation that supports nonprofits, schools and municipalities in the towns of Chester, Horicon, Johnsburg, Minerva and Schroon. This year, 28 grants totaling $39,600 were awarded to 24 organizations that address beautification, historic preservation, culture and the arts, education, recreation and programs for youth, seniors and veterans.
CFGMR has awarded nearly $319,000 since being established in 2005.
“Like most rural areas across the country, our communities face many challenges, from supporting vital programs for youth to addressing isolation for our older population,” said Mindy Preuninger of the CFGMR selection committee. “The Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Region aims to address these challenges with targeted grants, while also enhancing arts and culture and the other activities that support quality of life here. We’re honored to support the organizations that received grants this year.”
CFGMR grants were awarded to the following organizations this year:
- Adirondack Community Outreach Center, for the Food Pantry Goes to Market and 2024 Kids Summer Meals programs
- Family YMCA of the Glens Falls Area, for the reading program at the Brant Lake Adirondack Center
- Friends of the Town of Chester Public Library, for the Story Book Trail expansion
- Johnsburg's Jr. Outdoor Club, for programmatic support
- Johnsburg Historical Society, for historic window and door preservation at the Robert & Electa Waddell House Museum
- Johnsburg Youth Committee, to support activities for youth
- Minerva Central School District, to support the Crazy for Math program
- Minerva Historical Society, to help build new historical connections with the community
- Minerva Service Organization, to support healthy and delicious food for students through the Backpack Program
- Minerva Sleeping Giants/Minerva Service Organization, for the 50-plus program
- New York Ski Educational Foundation, for scholarship support for underserved snowsport athletes enrolled in the New York Ski Educational Foundation's Gore Mountain program
- North Country Ministry, to provide brain power through nutrition in partnership with the YMCA Adirondack Center no learning gap summer program
- North Creek Railway Depot Preservation Association, to support the Theodore Roosevelt history kiosk replacement
- Schroon-North Hudson Historical Society, to support “A Native American Summer Journey for School Age Children”
- Schroon Lake Central School District, to support “One Town, One School, One Family, One Book” and “Enhancing Connections to the Community”
- Schroon Lake Public Library, to support Yoto at the Library and development of a new website
- Seagle Festival, to support “Dragon’s Breath: A New Children’s Opera”
- Small Tales Early Learning Center and Day Care, to help educate young children in Chestertown
- Tannery Pond Center, for the Summer Concert Series presentation of Cassie & Maggie on Sept. 12
- The Adirondack Mission, for the Taste N See program, which provides healthy, hearty, homemade soups to food pantries
- Town of Horicon, for Horicon Cemetery headstone revitalization and repair and Heintzelman Library restoration
- Town of Horicon Historical Society, to support document and photo preservation as well as storage and display
- Town of Minerva, for the Make Memories, One Skate at a Time! program
- Town of Schroon, for Schroon Lake Park Playground equipment
“The Gore community fund’s support of Seagle Festival has been an integral part of our success from the beginning of our fall season,” said Darren K. Woods, Seagle’s artistic director. “Each year, that support, which is part of our larger education program, ensures that all the students of the Gore Mountain region get to experience a quality and enriching operatic experience directly in their schools.”
North Country Ministry’s grant complements existing programming at the YMCA Adirondack Center. With CFGMR support, North Country Ministry is able to provide 30 children with breakfast, snacks and lunch at the Y’s No More Learning Gap Program. Additionally, the Ministry provides a bag of food to kids to take home for their families on weekends.
“We feel that the food that we provide gives the children brain power throughout the day to be able to focus on their reading and sight words, and not worry about their next meal,” said Kayla Carlozzi, executive director of North Country Ministry. “We love supporting this program. We are also incredibly thankful for the support that the Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Region provides so that we can provide food for these children.”
“The generous funding award from Adirondack Foundation and the Gore community fund allows us to give the final resting places of our families, friends, and fellow citizens the dignity they deserve,” said Horicon Supervisor Michael N. Geraci. “The ability to repair headstones helps to make our cemeteries places of pride in our community.”
To learn more about the Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Region, contact Leslee Mounger at leslee.mounger@adkfoundation.