Grants Awarded - 2017
| Black Hills Advocate Chair Lift Provide transportion services to people who are unable to use traditional transportation in the Black Hills area
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$75,000 |
| Black Hills Area Community Foundation Rapid City Collective Impact Food Security Program
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$35,000 |
| Black Hills Knowledge Network To complete a comprehensive housing study for the Rapid City area
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$75,600 |
| Black Hills State University Scholarships - BHSU Rapid City University Center
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$160,000 |
| CASA Program Seventh Circuit Court General operating support for staffing, training and building the CASA volunteer base
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$75,000 |
Catholic Social Services
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$2,185,838 |
| Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills Sensory disability and education programs for children in Western South Dakota
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$50,000 |
| Cheyenne River Youth Project Develop and launch the Waniyetu Wowapi Art Institute at the Cheyenne River Youth Project site in Eagle Butte
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$125,000 |
| Excellence in Computer Programming 2017 International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals held in Rapid City
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$10,000 |
| Feeding South Dakota Rapid City School Back Pack Program to supply food on the weekend for children in need
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$50,000 |
| Fourth Circuit DUI Court Assist participants and their families with miscellaneous expenses and educational services for the team and the participants |
$10,000 |
| Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting Assist in the creation of the Black Hills Bureau
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$10,000 |
| Helpline Center For promotion of the VITA and AARP free income tax preparation service for the 2017 tax year in the Black Hills, in partnership with AARP
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$7,420 |
| Helpline Center 211 operations in the Black Hills and the Volunteer Connections Program to help maintain a volunteer database in Rapid City for volunteer coordination
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$115,000 |
| Hill City Arts Council Implement a marketing strategy
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$10,000 |
| Jennifer Trucano Honorarium YMCA of Rapid City
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$16,500 |
| Larry Piersol Honorarium South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
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$10,000 |
| Lifeways Rapid City Area Schools Alcohol & Drug Prevention/Early Intervention Program
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$48,880 |
| Literacy Council of the Black Hills Operating support/program coordination due to the increase in community need for tutoring adults in basic reading and writing skills, as well as English language learning |
$10,000 |
| Main Street Square Operating support over five years to Main Street Square in Rapid City
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$400,000 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Summer Camp Program for children enrolled in MDA
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$2,000 |
| New Dawn Enterprises To remodel and upgrade their kitchen facilities at their residentail treatment facility in Vale
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$32,000 |
| Northern Hills Drug Court Assist participants/families with basic needs, training for the team, incentives for participants, as well as supplies for drug court graduation ceremonies
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$10,000 |
| Oglala Lakota College Scholarships - Nursing Program
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$120,000 |
| Pardeeville Bulldog Support Foundation Performing & Visual Arts Center in Pardeeville, WI
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$50,000 |
| Pennington County Health & Human Services Discretionary funds for miscellaneous expenses where no other resource is available
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$60,000 |
| Rapid City Arts Council Teen and Young Adult Arts Education Program |
$55,000 |
| Rural America Initiatives Capital Campaign for a new Prenatal to 5 Head Start/Community Center
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$1,000,000 |
| Sanford Underground Research Facility Neutrino Day in Lead, the region's premier science festival, July 7-8, 2017 |
$8,000 |
| South Dakota State University Scholarships - Rapid City Nursing Programs
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$320,000 |
| Spearfish Nutrition Site & Tree House Cafe For their Senior Nutrition Program, providing meals in their dining room as well as to homebound and disabled recipients in Lawrence County
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$10,000 |
| St. Francis Mission Operating support for their free and reduced fee Dental Clinic
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$50,000 |
| Starting Strong Initiative/Early Childhood Connections Scholarship program for preschool education for 3 and 4 year olds from low income families in Rapid City as part of our prosperity cradle to career initiative
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$533,250 |
| United Way of the Black Hills Operating support over three years to be the Backbone Organization to implement the Campaign for Grade Level Reading Initiative in Rapid City. The CFGLR is a collective impact approach to build awareness and target efforts to ensure that children enter school ready to learn and that they are reading at grade level by third grade
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$547,500 |
| University of South Dakota Scholarships - Rapid City Nursing Program
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$120,000 |
| Wellfully Premier Adolescent Care Center Capital Campaign
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$750,000 |
Western Dakota Vocational Technical Institute
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$520,000 |
| YMCA of Rapid City Shaping the Future Capital Campaign
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$1,000,000 |
| Youth and Family Services East Adams Campus Expansion Project Capital Campaign
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$1,000,000 |
| 2017 Grand Total | $9,666,988 |