Grants Awarded - 2014
| Action for the Betterment of Our Community (ABC) To implement a multi-leveled diversion program for adjudicated youth in Sturgis |
$50,000 |
| Arts Rapid City Matching funds for the Bush Foundation Community Innovation grant to build and incubate a shared services module for the local creative sector, which includes consultation, research calendar, scheduling, ticketing software and services, based on priorities identified by the Future of the Arts Collaborative
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$55,000 |
| Bethany Christian Services To recruit, qualify, and formally train host families for the Safe Families for Children Program in Rapid City |
$120,000 |
| Black Hills State University Scholarships |
$225,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud General operations and programming |
$60,000 |
| Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills Chamber Music Festivals and youth programming in the Black Hills area and Pine Ridge Reservation, and a part-time Artistic Director/Education Coordinator |
$40,000 |
| Clarke Community Elementary School To implement Steven Covey's "The Leader in Me" Program in the Clarke School District |
$10,000 |
| Cornerstone Rescue Mission Help purchase and renovate a new facility for the Women's and Children's Home |
$500,000 |
| Crisis Intervention Shelter Service Strategic Planning for the Domestic Violence Shelter in Sturgis, SD |
$40,000 |
| Dakota State University Center for Theoretical Underground Physics (CETUP), a summer program where theorists and experimentalists work collaboratively to pursue the scientific goals of DUSEL (Deep Underground Science Experiment Lab) in Lead |
$15,000 |
| Douglas County Memorial Hospital Capital Campaign for Douglas County Memorial Hospital as a match grant with Farmers State Bank in Stickney, SD |
$10,000 |
| Feeding South Dakota Rapid City food distribution programs including Food Pantry, Backpack Program and Food Bank |
$115,000 |
| Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting Science outreach events at Neutrino Day, a project of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, in Lead, SD and for educational projects at the Lakota Nation Invitational to be held in Rapid City mid December. |
$10,975 |
| Gathering of People, Wind and Water Native Art Market and Cultural Celebration at Main Street Square in Rapid City |
$5,000 |
| Hagen-Harvey Memorial Scholarship Program South Dakota Native American Scholarship Fund |
$42,000 |
| Helpline Center Volunteer Connection Project, a collaboration to implement a database in Rapid City for volunteer coordination, Black Hills 211, and promotion of the VITA and AARP free income tax preparation service for the 2014 tax year |
$247,575 |
| Hope Center Drop-in Day Center in Rapid City for those living in poverty and the homeless, providing advocacy services and Lifelong learning classes, a telephone/message center, mailing center, and a space for individual storage |
$93,600 |
| Lifeways "Picture this…" Photography Contest for youth, adults and professionals in the Rapid City community, to inspire wellness and health related to substance abuse prevention/intervention services |
$5,550 |
| Mayo Clinic Health System Match grant with United Bank for expansion of the clinic/hospital in Osseo, Wisconsin |
$25,000 |
| Multi-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls Native Youth Club, a Native American cultural program to increase awareness of cultural traditions, history, symbolism and language, and provide homework assistance for students K-5 attending school in Sioux Falls |
$10,000 |
| National Relief Charities To help fund and equip a mobile food processing unit targeting nine Indian tribes located in South Dakota |
$60,000 |
| Native American Advocacy Program Isnati Awica Lowanpi (Young Women's Ceremony Camp) and planning for Zuya Camp (Young Men's Camp) |
$10,000 |
| Native Youth Leadership Alliance South Dakota Fellow Leadership Development and Community Initiatives |
$35,000 |
| NeighborWorks Dakota Home Resources Help rebuild Willow Park in North Rapid City, including play structure equipment |
$15,000 |
| Northern Hills Alliance for Children For their First Start Child Care and Pre-school Center in Deadwood |
$41,721 |
| Northern Hills Drug Court Assist participants/families with basic needs, medical or dental needs, psychiatric assessments or consults, educational services for the NHDC Team and ancillary services to participant families. |
$10,000 |
| Oglala Lakota College Scholarships |
$90,000 |
| Partnership Rapid City TeenUp (A community youth engagement program) |
$17,500 |
| Passages Women's Transitional Living Residential re-entry support program in Rapid City providing services to women coming out of incarceration |
$55,500 |
| Pennington County Health & Human Services Discretionary funds for individual's miscellaneous expenses where no other resource is available |
$50,000 |
| Prairie Hills Transit Match grant required to receive Federal State of Good Repair funding to purchase mechanical tools and equipment to assist in providing affordable transportation in the rural areas of the Black Hills |
$15,000 |
| Rapid City Arts Council Teen and young adults' arts programming and marketing |
$35,000 |
| Rapid City Club for Boys Afterschool programming for boys ages 6 to 17 |
$99,247 |
| Retired Senior Volunteer Program Train volunteers for volunteer services, evaluation and software updates in Spearfish, SD |
$12,200 |
| Rural America Initiatives Ateyapi Program providing mentoring, support for school success, physical and general wellness activities to Native American children in the Rapid City School District |
$200,000 |
| Rural Meade Ambulance Service To purchase equipment |
$12,827 |
| Rushmore Music Camp Scholarships for students attending Rushmore Music Camp |
$2,000 |
| South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Scholarships |
$285,000 |
| South Dakota State University Scholarships |
$405,000 |
| South Dakota State University Extension Partnering with Oyate Center at Lakota Homes and Rural America Initiatives Ateyapi youth mentoring program to provide gardening education programs in Rapid City |
$5,500 |
| Spare Key Matching grant for housing support payments for South Dakota families living through a child's medical crisis. |
$20,000 |
| St. Francis Mission Anti-bullying program in collaboration with Rosebud Tribal Council, reservation schools and local organizations |
$40,000 |
| Starting Strong Program/Early Childhood Connections Scholarship program for preschool education for 3 and 4 year olds from low income families in Rapid City |
$567,500 |
| United Way of the Black Hills To adopt the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Initiative in Rapid City in partnership with the Rapid City Area School District |
$375,870 |
| University of South Dakota Scholarships |
$435,000 |
| Victims of Violence Intervention Center Operations for Artemis House & Boutique in Spearfish |
$77,615 |
| Volunteers of America For Mommy's Closet providing basic life necessities to families with children up to age five including housing, food, diapers, and clothing |
$50,000 |
| Western Dakota Vocational Technical Institute Scholarships |
$240,000 |
| White Buffalo Calf Woman Society General operating support for their violence shelter serving the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations |
$69,483 |
| Working Against Violence, Inc. (WAVI) Domestic Violence Shelter General Operations |
$70,000 |
| Young Life Expansion of Wyldlife, a mentoring program geared toward middle school adolescents in the Rapid City area |
$180,000 |
| Youth and Family Services Girls, Inc. Program for afterschool programming for girls ages 6 to 17 in Rapid City |
$100,000 |
| 2014 Grand Total | $5,361,663 |