The Seattle Foundation has awarded nearly $250,000 in grants to Clallam County nonprofit agencies through the Benjamin N. Phillips Fund.
The fund, founded in 2006 through the estate of Joy Phillips in memory of her late husband, has awarded 25 grants ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 for a total of $249,500.
This is the third year of grants made by the Benjamin N. Phillips Fund, bringing the total amount of money given to Clallam County organizations to about $750,000.
Grants made this year are to:
• Port Angeles Fine Arts Center: $10,000 to provide general support.
• Clallam-Jefferson Pro Bono Lawyers: $5,000 to support the operations of the pro bono community office.
• Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County: $25,000 to support the infrastructure development of the Maloney Heights project in Port Angeles.
• Serenity House of Clallam County: $8,000.
• Voices for Veterans: $3,000 to provide support for Stand Down events, at which veterans are offered information about a variety of services.
• Clallam County YMCA: $5,500 to provide general support.
• Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic: $7,500 to support the Diabetes Education for Disease Prevention program.
• Family Planning of Clallam County: $15,000 to provide medical and educational reproductive health services in Forks.
• First Step Family Support Center: $10,000 to support the Maternity Support Services and Infant Case Management programs.
• Healthy Families of Clallam County: $25,000 to provide general program support and improve collaboration and coordination with other care providers.
• Parenting Matters Foundation: $25,000 to provide general operating support to serve families with young children.
• Peninsula Friends of Animals: $5,000 to provide general program support.
• St. Andrew’s Place Assisted Living Community: $5,000 to provide general support.
• Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics: $7,500 to provide general operating support.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula: $10,000 to provide support for the dedicated teen center and its staff to provide evening programs.
• Crescent Booster and Parent Teacher Organization: $5,000 to support the Volleyball: Courting Victory for Youth program.
• First Book of Clallam County: $1,000 to improve local literacy programs for low-income children by purchasing new books for them to keep.
• Girls Scouts of Western Washington: $5,000 to provide financial assistance for low-income girls from Clallam County.
• Olympic Park Institute: $10,000 to support the NOW Science Program.
• Port Angeles Education Foundation: $5,000 to support the Special Needs Committee.
• Dungeness River Audubon Center: $7,000 to provide general operating support.
• Feiro Marine Life Center: $15,000 to support the organization’s capacity-building efforts.
• North Olympic Land Trust: $15,000 to support capacity-building efforts, the final installment of a two-year grant.
• Olympic Community Action Programs: $5,000 to support the Encore! program for those suffering from memory loss and dementia.
• United Way of Clallam County: $15,000 to support the transition to a Community Solutions United Way model.
