The Legacy Foundation is pleased to announce awards totaling $150,000 to the 2024 Summer Cycle Bright Ideas Community Enrichment Fund grant recipients. Recent grant money awarded will help nonprofits improve community development and vitality, arts and culture, health care, and education. At the Legacy Foundation, we are excited to watch our nonprofits continue to grow and help improve many aspects of the community.
The following 9 organizations received the most recent grant awards:
- Agency Volunteer Fireman Inc for new self-contained breathing apparatus
- American Gothic House Center for educational classroom addition
- Friends of the Blakesburg Public Library for exterior finishes on the West End Library Renovation Project
- Indian Hills Community College Development Corporation strategic planning support
- Rippling Waters Inc for improving accessibility and housing revitalization in the West End Corridor
- River Hills Community Health Center to purchase new Behavioral Health equipment
- Seton Catholic School for updating math textbooks and library resources
- UNI Foundation to create a 360º Virtual Tour of Ottumwa
- Warriors With Wings to support the production and promotion of the theatrical play, “The American Soldier”.
At the Ottumwa Legacy Foundation, we recognize and embrace the critical role that we can play in the community as a catalyst for positive change. We are doing this by initiating and advancing promising ideas, making grants, convening conversations, promoting collaboration, providing sound information, and celebrating success.
We are always looking to support new and innovative ideas and efforts that can have measurable impacts on the residents and communities in Wapello County. We highly encourage all local nonprofits to submit applications to Bright Ideas Community Enrichment Fund. The next online Bright Ideas application cycle opens on September 15th, 2024. To learn more about all grant programs available visit our website www.ottumwalegacy.org.
