Grantees 2020
A COVID-19 Response Fund
$1,127,000
Arts South Dakota
$4,000
Behavior Management Systems
Family Pathways school-based counseling and support programs
$150,000
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
$20,000
Black Hills Special Services Cooperative (Career Learning Center)
$546,000
Black Hills State University Foundation
Scholarships to low income youth to participate in a virtual Camp Invention Summer Camp
$5,000
Boys & Girls Club of Rosebud
$90,000
Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills
Educational virtual music programming for youth in the Black Hills
$20,000
Cheyenne River Youth Project
$125,000
Feeding South Dakota
Hunger relief efforts to include the BackPack Program and mobile food distribution throughout the Black Hills
$50,000
Helpline Center
- $55,000 – Volunteer Connections Program to maintain a volunteer database for the Black Hills area to link volunteers and nonprofit agencies together and provide tools and supports to area nonprofit agencies
- $7,500 – Promotion and volunteer recruitment of the VITA and AARP free income tax preparation service for the 2021 tax year in the Black Hills
$62,500
Honorariums
- Black Hills Area Community Foundation – Black Hills by Choice Fund – $1,000
- Black Hills Area Community Foundation – Operating Endowment Fund – $3,677
- CommonBond – $9,333
- Feeding South Dakota – $4,667
- Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting – $2,500
- Lifescape Foundation – $1,000
- Rapid City Club for Boys – $1,000
- United Way of the Black Hills – $1,000
- University of South Dakota – Barbara Hughes Clement Program Endowment – $22,000
- YMCA of Rapid City – $14,000
- Youth and Family Services – $4,667
$64,844
Hope Center
Drop-in Day Center providing support to assist individuals working through the crisis of poverty and homelessness
$85,000
LifeScape Foundation
To increase capacity and services provided to children who have autism at their Rapid City Speciality Clinic
$282,000
New Dawn Enterprises
$25,000
One Spirit
Support for their End Hunger Program on the Pine Ridge Reservation
$50,000
Passages Women’s Transitional Living
$300,000
Pennington County Health & Human Services
Discretionary funds for basic needs and job-related expenses and tiered incentives for the Safe Solutions Program
$100,000
Pennington County Mental Health Court
$10,000
Pennington County Veteran’s Treatment Court
Assist participants and their families with miscellaneous expenses while in the program
$10,000
Rapid City Area School District
$250,000
Rapid City Arts Council
Youth and Young Adults Arts Education programming to provide youth and young adults access to the arts
$65,000
Rapid City Club for Boys
$130,000
St. Francis Mission
Free and reduced fee dental clinic serving the Lakota people on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation
$130,000
United Way of the Black Hills
$200,000
Volunteers of America
- $200,000 – Coordination of the Black Hills Regional Homeless Coalition
- $50,000 – Mommy’s Closet, providing emergency support services and case management for families of children ages 0-13, and coordination of the Western SD Diaper Bank
$250,000
YMCA of Rapid City
$199,000
Youth & Family Services
Girls Inc. out-of-school program
$100,000
2020 Grand Total
$4,450,344
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