Grantees 2022
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
- $475,000 – Early Learner Innovation Fund
- $300,000 – Matching funds to assist nonprofits to grow their endowments
- $68,000 – Assist with the Friends of Food Security work
$843,000
Boys & Girls Club of Rosebud
Support for three youth centers and a teen center located in Mission, Rosebud, and Parmelee on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation
$150,000
Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills
Educational music programming for youth in the Black Hills
$15,000
Chanku Wast Ranch
Medicine Root Construction Project to a pilot a mentoring program engaging local laborers to build skills to complete home repairs on the Pine Ridge Reservation
$25,000
Cheyenne River Youth
Construction of Waniyetu Wowapi (Winter Count) Institute and Art Park
$100,000
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
Native American College Fair and Summit to provide college access experiences for area students
$10,000
Early Childhood Connections
Assist with stabilization of high quality Starting Strong childcare programs
$375,000
Elevate Rapid City
Support for their Workforce Development Pillar
$250,000
Fork Real Community Café
Capacity building and operating funds for their pay-what-you-can community cafe that offers fresh farm-to-table meals in Rapid City
$25,000
Helpline Center
Marketing efforts in Western South Dakota for the 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
$15,000
Honorarium/Memoriam
- $100,000 – Dale Clement Family Fund – In Memoriam to Benefit Black Hills Symphony Orchestra Society & Chamber Music Festival
- $20,000 – Black Hills Area Community Foundation/Rapid City Strategic Housing Fund
- $1,777 – Black Hills Area Community Foundation/Operating Endowment
- $752 – Black Hills Area Community Foundation/RAI Endowment
- $5,400 – Black Hills Special Services/Career Learning Center (Workforce Connections Program)
- $2,000 – Feeding South Dakota
- $5,000 – Lutheran Social Services
- $4,000 – OneHeart
- $10,000 – Rapid City YMCA
- $2,000 – Youth and Family Services
- $1,025 – Early Childhood Connections/Starting Strong Program
- $1,025 – Rural America Initiatives
$152,979
Hope Center
Drop-in Day Center providing support for the homeless and those living in poverty in Rapid City
$95,000
Journey On
Purchase a vehicle for their Street Outreach Program
$25,000
Literacy Council of the Black Hills
Program tutoring adults in basic reading and writing, as well as English language learning
$25,000
Lost & Found
Mental health programming to address increasing mental health needs and suicide risk for students on campus at Western Dakota Tech, SD School of Mines, and Black Hills State University
$30,000
Main Street Square
Main Street Square Operations
$200,000
Main Street Square
Equipment upgrades at Main Street Square
$100,000
Northern Hills Aliance for Children
Quality early learning to young children and families in the Northern Black Hills
$50,000
Northern Hills Drug & 4th Circuit DUI Courts
Assist participants and their families with ancillary services to encourage and reinforce positive behavior while in the program
$20,000
Oaya Luta Okolakiciye (OLO)
Provide talking circles in all Rapid City Area School (RCAS) Middle Schools
$25,000
Pennington County DUI Court
Assist participants and their families with miscellaneous expenses while in the program
$20,000
Pennington County Health & Human Services
To assist individuals with miscellaneous expenses such as rental deposits, rental assistance, utility assistance and transportation costs
$100,000
Pennington County Mental Health Court
Assist participants and their families with miscellaneous expenses while in the program
$10,000
Rapid City Club for Boys
Out-of-school and outreach programming to middle school and high school boys
$283,000
Rural America Initiatives
Capital Campaign to add additional Early Head Start and Head Start classrooms to the facility in Rapid City
$1,000,000
Sanford Underground Research Facility Foundation
Education and outreach program, providing STEM professional development for K-12 educators in South Dakota
$25,000
Simply Smiles
Support for their therapeutic foster homes on the Cheyenne River Reservation in La Plant, SD
$50,000
United Way of the Black Hill
Support of their Mental Health Initiative
$100,000
Volunteers of America
Coordination of the Black Hills Regional Homeless Coalition
$250,000
Working Against Violence, Inc. (WAVI)
- $160,000 – Support for Project Safe, children’s programs and community outreach and education efforts related to domestic violence
- $100,000 – Capital improvements at current shelter to increase capacity
$260,000
YMCA of Rapid City
Jump Start Childcare Program to assist teen parents and parents taking steps to achieve educational goals and self-sufficiency
$310,000
2022 Grand Total
$4,938,979
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