Grants Awarded - 2019

Abbott House, Inc. Build two foster homes for children in foster care and apartments for youth aging out of the foster care system	$350,000
Anonymous Honorarium One Heart	$1,500
Black Hills Area Community Foundation Matching funds to assist nonprofits to grow their endowments	$100,000
Black Hills State University Scholarships to low income youth to attend Camp Invention Summer Camp	$5,000
Black Hills State University Foundation Scholarships - BH State University Rapid City	$160,000
Camp Thunderbird South Dakota For students from low income families to attend a college access camp	$4,400
Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills Discovery of Strings Program and other free educational music programming for youth in the Black Hills	$15,000
CommonBond To expand the availability of affordable housing and provide supportive services in Rapid City over a multi-year period	$3,231,000
Dale Clement Honorarium University of South Dakota (Barbara Hughes Clement Program Endowment Fund)	$15,000
Feeding South Dakota $50,000 - Support of Rapid City Child Hunger Programs $75,000 - New truck to be used in Rapid City and surrounding communities to help with food security efforts	$125,000
Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting Early Learning Initiative to support statewide early education efforts in South Dakota	$50,000
Helpline Center $67,000 - Black Hills 211 Helpline Center to provide callers with information and referrals to social service organizations for every day needs and in times of crisis $60,240 - Volunteer Connections Program and Evaluation; 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 $7,420 - Promotion and volunteer recruitment of the VITA and AARP free income tax preparation service for the 2020 tax year in the Black Hills, in partnership with AARP	$134,660
Hope Center Drop-in Day Center providing support to assist individuals working through the crisis of poverty and homelessness	$72,000
Jennifer Trucano Honorarium YMCA of Rapid City	$12,667
Larry Piersol Honorarium South Dakota News Watch	$5,000
Literacy Council of the Black Hills Program tutoring adults in basic reading and writing skills, as well as English language learning	$25,000
Love, Inc. Campaign for remodeling a new facility to consolidate programming to one location	$500,000
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) For children in Western South Dakota to attend the MDA Summer Camp at Camp Courage in Maple Lake, MN	$2,000
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) To implement the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations 8 Dimensions of Wellness Initiative through a model called “Moving from Illness to Wellness” for individuals and families impacted by mental illness	$120,000
New Start Housing Collaborative Provide housing vouchers for individuals and families unable to access public housing; clients receive extensive case management and support services	$550,000
Northern Black Hills Society for the Preservation of the Performing Arts For the Northern Hills Community Band	$5,000
Northern Hills Alliance for Children Education services for young children and families in the Northern Black Hills.	$120,000
Northern Hills Drug & 4th Circuit DUI Courts Assist participants and their families with ancillary services to encourage and reinforce positive behavior while in the program	$20,000
Oglala Lakota College Scholarships - Nursing Program	$120,000
Pennington County DUI & Drug Courts Assist participants and their families with miscellaneous expenses while participating in the program	$32,000
Pennington County Health & Human Services Discreationary funds for basic needs and job-related expenses and tiered incentives for the Safe Solutions Program	$80,000
Rapid City Club for Boys Capital Campaign to improve programming and safety at the Club	$400,000
Rapid City Club for Boys Out-of-school and outreach programming to middle school and high school boys	$130,000
Ray Hillenbrand Memoriam Construction and maintenance of the Ray of Hope Garden on the OneHeart Campus	$95,000
Rushmore Consumer Credit Counseling Financial/housing counseling and education on renting or buying a home	$100,069
South Dakota State University Foundation Scholarships - Rapid City Nursing Program	$320,000
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	$1,691,889
United Way of the Black Hills For strategic planning and implementation	$240,000
University of South Dakota Foundation Scholarships - Rapid City Nursing Program	$120,000
Volunteers of America $100,000 - Coordination of the Black Hills Regional Homeless Coalition $50,000 - Mommy’s Closet, providing basic life necessities to families with children up to age five including housing, food, diapers, and clothing	$150,000
Western Dakota Technical Institute $682,472 - Student Success Center to provide services and supports to assist high risk students to be successful and graduate $320,000 - Scholarships - LPN/ADN Nursing Programs $200,000 - Scholarships - Other WDT Programs	$1,202,472
Western SD Senior Services, Inc. Purchase of a temperature-controlled delivery truck along with operating expenses to provide meals to seniors (Meals on Wheels)	$300,000
Working Against Violence, Inc. (WAVI) $220,500 - Support for Project Safe, children's programs and community outreach and education efforts related to domestic violence $50,000 - Youth Violence in Prevention (YVIP) collaborative programming for local youth in middle school and high school to participate in educational leadership building sessions and create youth projects on sexual violence prevention	$270,500
Youth and Family Services Girls Inc. out-of-school program	$100,000

2019 Grand Total	$10,975,157