Grantees 2021
A COVID-19 Response Fund
$27,525
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Black Hills
$50,000
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
- $1,000,000 Affordable Housing Fund intended to spur development of supportive and affordable housing in Rapid City
- $5,000,000 Affordable Housing Fund to be used to match private and public contributions into the Rapid City Strategic Housing Trust Fund
- $300,000 Matching funds to assist nonprofits to grow their endowments
$6,300,000
Black Hills Community Theatre
$15,000
Black Hills Playhouse
$25,000
Black Hills State University Foundation
- $250,000 – Scholarships – BH State University Rapid City
- $5,000 – Scholarships to low income youth to attend Camp Invention Summer Camp
$255,000
Boys & Girls Club of Rosebud
$75,000
CASA Program Seventh Circuit Court
Staffing, training, and volunteer support to advocate for children
$150,000
Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills
$15,000
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
Native American College Fair and Summit to provide college access experiences for area students
$8,000
Feeding South Dakota
$100,000
Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting
Early Learning Initiative to collaborate with stakeholders and provide educational content, resources and professional development about the importance of early learning
$30,000
Front Porch Coalition
- Facilitation of a teen suicide prevention group called Defying Defeat – $25,000
- Capacity building/strategic planning – $19,000
$44,000
Helpline Center
Volunteer Connections Program to link volunteers and nonprofit agencies together in the Black Hills
$120,000
Historic Homestake Opera House Society
$375,000
Honorariums
- $20,630 – Black Hills Area Community Foundation
- $2,250 – Black Hills Special Services/Career Learning Center (Workforce Connections Program)
- $3,500 – CommonBond
- $3,250 – Feeding South Dakota
- $3,000 – One Heart
- $3,250 – Youth & Family Services
- $2,500 – Rapid City Arts Council (Dahl Arts Center)
- $14,600 – University of South Dakota – Barbara Hughes Clement Program Endowment
- $11,000 – Rapid City YMCA
$63,980
Hope Center
$95,000
Literacy Council of the Black Hills
Program tutoring adults in basic reading and writing skills, as well as English language learning
$25,000
Lost & Found
$25,000
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Programming for mental health education and supports in the Black Hills
$50,000
New Start Housing Collaborative
$550,000
Northern Hills Alliance for Children
Education services to young children and families in the Northern Black Hills
$60,000
Northern Hills Drug & 4th Circuit DUI Courts
$20,000
Oglala Lakota College
Scholarships – Nursing Program
$120,000
Pennington County Board of Commissioners
$300,000
Pennington County Drug Court
Assist participants and their families with miscellaneous expenses while in the program
$20,000
Pine Ridge Girls School
$20,000
Rapid City Area School District
Support to bring the Delta Dental Bus to Rapid City Area Schools to provide qualifying students with free dental care
$20,000
Rapid City Public Library Foundation
$50,000
Sanford Underground Research Facility Foundation
Stipends and materials for the education and outreach program, providing STEM professional development for K-12 educators in South Dakota
$25,000
Simply Smiles
$127,000
South Dakota State University Foundation
- $528,000 – Support of the Native American Nursing Education Center (NANEC) for mentoring, cultural programming, and student support
- $380,000 – Scholarships – Rapid City Nursing Program
$908,000
United Way of the Black Hills
Black Hills Reads, a Campaign for Grade Level Reading Initiative, building awareness and targeting efforts to ensure children enter school ready to learn and they are proficient readers for 3rd grade
$450,000
University of South Dakota Foundation
Scholarships – Rapid City Nursing Program
$80,000
Volunteers of America
Mommy’s Closet, providing emergency support services and case management for families of children ages 0-13, and coordination of the Western South Dakota Diaper Bank
$100,000
Wellfully
Pilot a Youth Crisis Care Center located at Wellfully to support youth in crisis in a trauma-informed manner
$630,000
Western Dakota Vocational Technical Foundation
- $320,000 – Scholarships – LPN/ADN Nursing Programs
- $320,000 – Scholarships – Other WDT Programs
$640,000
Youth & Family Services
Girls Inc. out-of-school programming
$630,000
2021 Grand Total
$12,168,505
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