Contact:
Kathryn Yarzebinski, President & CEO
(434) 845-6500
(Lynchburg, VA – December 11, 2024) - The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation (“GLCF” or “Foundation”) announced today the recipients of its Fall 2024 competitive grants.
The GLCF Distribution Committee carefully reviewed each application received, resulting in $552,643 awarded in competitive grants, plus $194,737 in recommendations from our donor advised funds.
Competitive grants ranged from $500 to $39,000. 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.
"This is the largest amount we’ve ever awarded in a single grant cycle,” said John Walker, chair of the GLCF Distribution Committee. “The Distribution Committee worked diligently to ensure that our grant dollars were awarded fairly and impactfully across our community.”
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.
“This is the most we’ve given out in grants in a single grant cycle,” said Kathryn C. Yarzebinski, President & CEO of the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation. “It’s thrilling to see the growing impact our endowed funds are having on our community. We now have 328 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 food distribution to needy households, transportation, summer camps for youth, health and wellness for veterans, and arts programs and performances.
Since 1972, the GLCF has granted over $35 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 March 15, 2025. In 2024, the GLCF awarded over $2.3 million to 251 charitable organizations.
Fall 2024 grant recipients from the competitive cycle and donor advised funds include the following organizations:
- Academy Center of the Arts
- Alpha Action Educational & Charitable Foundation
- Altavista Area YMCA
- Altavista Area/Campbell Fuller Center for Housing, Inc.
- Amazement Square
- American Red Cross of Blue Ridge Virginia
- Amherst County Habitat for Humanity
- Amherst County Public School Education Foundation, Inc.
- Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc.
- Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project
- ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation
- Awareness Garden
- Bedford Area Family YMCA
- Bedford Cares
- Bedford Community Christmas Station
- Bedford Humane Society, Inc
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Virginia
- Blue Ledge Meals on Wheels
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg
- Brook Hill Retirement Center for Horses (Brook Hill Farm)
- Camp Holiday Trails
- Camp Kum-Ba-Yah
- Campbell County Educational Foundation
- Campbell County Historical Society, Inc.
- Cantate
- CASA of Central Virginia
- Claire Parker Foundation
- Coalition for HIV Awareness & Prevention Central VA, Inc.
- Concord Volunteer Fire Department
- craveABLEs
- Diamond Hill Health and Wellness Community Service
- Downtown Lynchburg Association
- Elizabeth's Early Learning Center
- Feeding Southwest Virginia
- Five18 Family Services
- Food for Kids
- Forte Chamber Music, Inc.
- Free Clinic of Central Virginia
- Friends of Endstation Theatre Company
- Friends of the Lynchburg Public Library
- Girls on the Run Central Virginia and Blue Ridge
- Gleaning For the World, Inc.
- Great Aspirations Scholarship Program, Inc. (GRASP)
- Historic Sandusky Foundation
- Holy Cross Catholic Church
- Hospital Hospitality House of Richmond (The Doorways)
- HumanKind
- Interfaith Outreach Association
- IRON Lives
- Isaiah 117 House
- James River Association
- James River Day School
- Jefferson Choral Society
- Johnson Health Center
- Jones Memorial Library
- Jubilee Family Development Center
- Junior League of Lynchburg
- Kids and Pros, Inc.
- Kuumba Dance Ensemble
- Lake Christian Ministries
- Lynchburg Art Club
- Lynchburg Beacon of Hope
- Lynchburg Daily Bread
- Lynchburg Grows
- Lynchburg Humane Society
- Lynchburg Museum Foundation
- Lynchburg Pops
- Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra
- MDM Networking
- Meals on Wheels
- Miller Home of Lynchburg
- Miriam's House
- Monacan Indian Nation
- Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc. - Food Bank
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors
- New Vistas School
- No Walls Ministry
- Old City Cemetery
- Park View Community Mission
- Pierce Street Gateway
- Presbyterian Cemetery
- Randolph College
- Red Truck Ministries
- Renaissance Theatre Company
- Riverviews Artspace
- Rush Homes
- Second Stage Amherst
- Southern Environmental Law
- Sweet Briar College
- The Arc of Central Virginia
- The Avenel Foundation
- The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest
- The James Chamber Players
- The John Oakes Foundation
- The Link Project, Incorporated
- The Salvation Army of Lynchburg
- The Sedalia Center Inc.
- The Society of St. Andrew, Inc
- United Methodist Family Services
- United Way of Central Virginia, Inc.
- Vector Space
- VIA Centers for Neurodevelopment
- Virginia Hunters Who Care, Inc.
- Virginia Tech Foundation - Bedford 4-H
- Wharton Memorial Foundation
- Wolfbane Productions
- Woman's Club of Lynchburg
- Yoga for Recovery - Sattva Yoga and Wellness Center
- YWCA 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 328 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.