Budget
$13,450.00
Description
Organizations supported by the Sewanee Community Chest include Growing Roots, Blue Monarch, Marion Animal Resource Connection and Animal Harbor.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Adults
Animals
Long-term Success
Growing Roots is a community of people who actively support whole health wellness and food accessibility on the South Cumberland Plateau.Growing Roots maintains that our strength is found in the input, collaboration, and diversity of the voices that make up the team, volunteers, participants, and partners. These individuals come from across Grundy, Marion, and Franklin counties (including Sewanee) and represent a wide breadth of economic, cultural, and social backgrounds.
Blue Monarch's mission is to provide a long-term, residential and therapeutic Christian community for women and their children to break adverse cycles and rebuild their families.
MARC provides education for children and adults about humane care and treatment of animals. MARC connects people with affordable spay/neuter procedures to begin decreasing the number of unwanted and costly litters.
Animal Harbor is a limited-admission no kill animal shelter facility serving Franklin County.
Program Areas Served
Beyond Sewanee

Budget
$37,340.00
Description
A majority of funding goes to children's programs. Little Bellas is a mentoring on mountain bikes program that is open to girls of all abilities. Reach Out and Read is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. Sewanee Elementary Parent Organization uses funding for place-based learning and enrichment activities for the K-5 grade students. Sewanee Children's Center is a cooperative preschool that offers a comprehensive developmental preschool program responsive to the needs of local children and families.
Category
Community Improvement, Capacity Building  -  
Beneficiaries
Infants and Toddlers
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Program Areas Served
Children

Budget
$28,000.00
Description
Support goes to the Community Action Committee, dedicated to combating poverty and hunger in rural Appalachia. CAC focuses efforts in and around the Sewanee community and works to alleviate the effects associated with poverty through the facilitation of a number of different programs including a food bank, tutoring program, and monthly community meals; Folks at Home assisting its members in continuing a dignified and comfortable lifestyle in the community through coordination of services they need during their elder years; Housing Sewanee, a group of dedicated volunteers who work with community partners to build homes together; the Sewanee Senior Center which provides more than 8,000 meals annually; and the South Cumberland Farmer's Market, which creates a vibrant local food economy that provides prosperity to farmers and rural communities and increases access to fresh, healthy, local food for everyone.
Beneficiaries
Families
Adults
Elderly and/or Disabled
Program Areas Served
Community Aid