Contact:
Kathryn Yarzebinski, President & CEO
(434) 845-6500
(Lynchburg, VA – June 12, 2024) - The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation (“GLCF” or “Foundation”) announced today the recipients of its Spring 2024 competitive grants.
This spring the GLCF received 79 applications for grant funding. The GLCF Distribution Committee carefully reviewed each application, resulting in over $519,000 awarded in competitive grants, plus over $55,000 in recommendations from our donor advised funds.
Competitive grants ranged from $700 to $30,000. The GLCF provides grants for a wide range of needs, including food/hunger, housing, education, individuals with disabilities, animal welfare, historic preservation, our environment, and the arts. Nonprofit organizations serving the city of Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, and Campbell are eligible to apply.
"We received many strong applications for grant support this year from local nonprofits,” said John Walker, GLCF’s Distribution Committee chair. “It was exciting to read about all of the good work these organizations are doing in our community. We are glad to be able to distribute grants that will support everything from the arts to food insecurity, and will help make our area a better place to live."
The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation was founded in 1972 and works to solve our community’s greatest challenges by providing grants and scholarships, and by helping individuals, families, and organizations create their charitable legacy.
In order to receive a grant, nonprofit organizations must submit an application describing a current project in need of funding, as well as a project budget and current financial statements. A Distribution Committee composed of members of the GLCF Board of Directors determines which projects receive funding after carefully reviewing the applications.
“These grant applications show the incredible work our nonprofits are doing in our community,” said Kathryn C. Yarzebinski, President & CEO of the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation. “GLCF donors make these grants possible. We now have 325 endowed funds created and supported by donors, and these funds generate millions in annual charitable support for our community.”
Examples of some of this year’s funded projects include: providing healthy meals to homebound individuals, educational summer programming for kids in Campbell County, purchasing tools and equipment to assist in maintaining the Appalachian Trail in Bedford County, supporting elderly patients in hospice care, and the historic preservation of the Dr. Robert Walter “Whirlwind” Johnson home in Lynchburg.
Since 1972, the GLCF has granted over $33 million to a wide variety of local nonprofit organizations including human services, animal welfare, arts, education, and historical preservation organizations.
The GLCF offers two grant cycles annually: fall and spring. The next grant deadline is September 15, 2024. In 2023, the GLCF awarded $over $2.2 million to 211 charitable organizations.
Spring 2024 grant recipients from the competitive cycle and donor advised funds include the following organizations:
- Academy Center of the Arts
- Agape Center Corporation - Lynchburg Center
- Avoca Museum and Historical Society
- Awareness Garden
- Bedford Community Orchestra
- Bedford Humane Society
- Bedford Urban Garden, Inc.
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, Inc.
- Blue Ridge Montessori School
- Blue Ridge Mountains Council, Boy Scouts of America
- Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center
- Bower Center for the Arts
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg
- Building Bridges Productions, Inc.
- Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Nature Center
- Cantate Children's and Youth Choir
- Centra Foundation
- Central Virginia Academy for Nonprofit Excellence
- Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, Inc.
- Central Virginia Community College Educational Foundation, Inc.
- Charlottesville Ballet
- Children's Assistive Technology Service
- Children's Trust
- Cross Road Community Wellness Ministry
- Cycling Without Age Lynchburg
- DAWN
- Eleven Pictures LTD DBA Virginia Children's Book Festival
- enCircle (Lutheran Family Services of Virginia)
- FARRR Foundation Inc
- Free Clinic of Central Virginia
- FREE Foundation for Rehabilitation Equipment & Endowment
- Freedom 4/24
- Friends of Bedford Hospice House
- Future Focus Foundation
- Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline
- HumanKind
- Interfaith Outreach
- James River Association
- James River Day School
- Johnson Health Center
- Jubilee Family Development Center
- Kids' Haven: A Center for Grieving Children
- Literacy Volunteers of Campbell County Public Library
- Live Move Be Center
- Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation
- Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship
- Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra
- Madison Heights Youth Baseball Association
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Virginia
- Miriam's House
- National D-Day Memorial Foundation
- Natural Bridge Appalachian Trail Club
- New Vistas School
- One Community One Voice Lynchburg
- Opera on the James
- Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation
- Pierce Street Gateway
- Pink Witnesses, Inc.
- Purple Heart Homes, Inc.
- Radcliff Cemetery, Inc.
- Rivermont Area Emergency Food Pantry
- Rush Homes
- Second Stage | Amherst
- Seven Hills Chamber Music
- SML Good Neighbors, Inc.
- St. John's Day School
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church
- Stoneridge Foundation dba The National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm
- Sweet Briar College
- Take My Hand Ministries, Inc.
- The Arc of Central Virginia
- The Bedford Area Educational Foundation
- The Bridge Ministry, Inc.
- The Main Act Theatre Troupe
- Topper Touchdown Club
- United Way of Central Virginia
- University of Lynchburg
- University of Virginia, Virginia College Advising Corps
- Virginia Amateur Sports Inc.
- Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities
- Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc.
- Whirlwind Johnson Foundation (WJF)
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Virginia
For more information on how to apply for a grant, to start your own charitable fund, or to make a gift to one of the 325 existing funds at the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, please visitwww.lynchburgfoundation.org.
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The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation’s vision is to make lasting and impactful change possible by funding the work of nonprofit organizations that are focused on improving the lives of those in Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell counties.