September 2008:
Small Grants Awarded:
Mediators Beyond Borders - $750 to defray travel costs for mediator
Clark Memorial United Methodist Church - $500 to assist in a shipment of books
Liberian Education Action Project - $2,000 for teacher training
Browne Academy Day Care and Elementary School - $1,500 for health care feeding program, feeding program and desks, teaching materials and books
Board Generated Grants Awarded:
Browne Academy Dare Care and Elementary School - $2,000 for faculty Development/tuition for in-service teachers at Don Bosco Polytechnic School
March 2009:
Small Grants Awarded:
YMCA - $2,000 for textbooks for teachers in several cities
YMCA - $1,300 toward completing a library in Ganta
United Methodist University – Ganta - $1,200 to provide computers and cabinets for faculty at the nursing school
Zoduah Clan Farmers Cooperative, Cape Mount - $2,000 for the purchase of a rice mill
Kakata Teacher Training Institute - $1,500 to establish a farm
Board Generated Grants Awarded:
East Nimba Wildlife Reserve Survey - $2,000
Workshop and In-Service Training for Nurses, Nursing Students and Staff at United Methodist Hospital, Ganta - $3500.
Education Service Project involving returned Peace Corps Volunteers May 2009 at the Ganta United Methodist and Ganta YMCA Schools, $1,000
Supplement Grant to YMCA Textbooks for Teachers - $1,324.19
London Enterprises – Bikes for the World - $2,500 for shipping of bicycles
September 2009:
Small Grants Awarded:
African Community Exchange: $1300.00
P.O. Box 444, Midlothian VA 231113 contact: Candace Eastman - cbeastman@yahoo.com or Sophie Williams - swswilliams@comcast.net
To facilitate the "Literate Liberia Movement" by providing transportation for organizers, community leaders and school personnel as well as materials and supplies to students in grades 7-12 who will teach literacy to some 3000 people in the Monrovia area, including neighborhoods and market places.
Margibi Country Women's Association: $1985.00
no address given contact: Hannah Slocum - Mawoda_kakata@yahoo.com
To train women to re-establish the production of country cloth, including weaving, tailoring, needle work, design, marketing and sales.
Liberian Potters(Pottery) Association: $1750.00
no address given contact: Wilmot Barclay - LPAceramics@vmail.com
To purchase a kiln and related materials to enable a group of potters to become self-reliant through training more potters, providing production access for more potters and developing marketing strategies.
Visions in Action: $1600.00
2nd Street behind the YWCA, Congotown, Monrovia, Liberia; also U.S. address of organization 2710 Ontario Road NW, Washington DC contact: Jo-Zette Dick - jdick@visionsinaction.org
To distribute scientific calculators to high schools and universities in certain counties and also to educate teachers in the incorporation of calculators into the curricula and the learning process
February 2010
Small Grants Awarded:
Living Stone Outreach $1000.00
To construct a new kitchen to serve the residents and workers of their Women's and Children Rehabilitation Center, an orphanage outside Monrovia. $2000.
Football to Develop Destitute (FODEDE). To train youth in football (soccer) and life skills, including leadership, team building and networking, hopefully enabling some to earn athletic scholarships to college.
Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute (KRTTI)$2000.00
To rebuild chicken house on the school's farm.
The Children's Reading Center $2000.00
To partially fund "Liberia Reads", a primary-age literacy project in four schools: Monrovia (2), Ganta and Kakata. .
FUEL Youth $1925.00
U.S.-based. To build a community well and school water system on Swaggart Island outside Monrovia. .
Community Welfare Association $1972.50
To restock Zoegeh District, Nimba County, with piglets, feed, medicines and materials (called the Lorkia Cattle Farmers Association Project). .
Samuel J. and Mary S. Mentee Foundation $1800.00
To purchase materials for an early childhood education teacher training workshop, using LEAP methodology, for its future community school in Kakata.