Organization |
Amount |
Project Name |
Description |
Airborne and Special Operations Museum |
$ 100,000 |
Honoring America's Heroes Campaign |
Implementation of digital technology and an upgrade to existing exhibits. |
All About Fitness, Inc. |
$ 1,000 |
Fighting Obesity and Investing in the Future of Cumberland County |
All About Fitness hosts free community workouts and health/wellness instruction free of charge for Cumberland County residents. These funds will purchase needed equipment to host the boot camps. |
Armed Services YMCA of Fort Bragg |
$ 7,760 |
Operation Hero |
Expansion of an afterschool program that helps military children overcome challenges and connect with peers. |
Better Health of Cumberland County, Inc. |
$ 8,458 |
Diabetes Self-Management and Prevention Education |
The Diabetes Self-Management program includes 2 free diabetes "clinics" per week, which involve a weight, blood pressure and blood sugar check by a Registered Nurse. The classes cover a variety of topics related to diabetes, including cooking demonstrations. |
Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville, Inc. |
$ 4,160 |
Drama Day Camp |
Provide scholarship opportunities to financially disadvantaged students, allowing them to attend 6-day camp classes as well as a week-long spring break class. |
Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville, Inc. |
$ 17,872 |
Stage Rigging Update |
Update the existing rigging system with more modern functions and capabilities. |
Cape Fear Studios, Inc. |
$ 15,000 |
Senior Arts Program |
Senior arts program held at the Blue Street Senior Center to provide seniors with social and recreational activities. |
Cumberland County CommuniCare, Inc. |
$ 25,000 |
Community Opioid Response Empowerment Project |
Builds community strategy with CFORT collaborative task force to reduce overdose deaths in Cumberland County by providing naloxone kits to EMS and family program on how to manage addiction. |
Cumberland County Coordinating Council on Older Adults |
$ 52,213 |
Meals on Wheels |
Purchase of a new truck and modification to provide more meals to isolated seniors. |
Cumberland County Schools- Reid Ross Classical Middle/High School |
$ 3,638 |
Empowering the Internet Generation |
A laptop cart that will charge the Chromebooks that are used regularly in the classroom. They have been broken down for quite some time. |
Cumberland County Schools- South View High School |
$ 4,990 |
Tigers Can Fly |
STEM program to purchase drones for a female student club designed to encourage girls to become interested in science. |
Fayetteville Area Operation Inasmuch |
$ 15,100 |
Dining Room Floor |
A new dining room floor for the breakfast hall. |
Fayetteville Police Foundation |
$ 6,231 |
Hope and Hugs |
Refurbish rooms used for traumatic interviews by the Fayetteville Police Department to provide a more comforting environment for the victims. |
Fayetteville State University/Department of Education |
$ 27,460 |
Reading Clinic |
The FSU Reading Clinic will provide evidence-based tutoring via HELPS program to train students and parents to strategically tutor literacy. |
Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, Inc. |
$ 10,000 |
Musical Memories |
Performances for residents at local nursing home facilities to engage their memory and provide an in-person concert for those who cannot get out into the community. |
Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, Inc. |
$ 26,500 |
Music Connections |
Programs for young children including working with preschool and kindergarten ages and working with the Cumberland County Schools to address their needs especially with a shortage of string instrument instruction which negatively impacts middle and high school. |
Fayetteville-Cumberland Parks and Recreation |
$ 65,000 |
Cross Creek Cemetery #1 Renovation |
Cemetery renovations and repairs to preserve the historical value and visitor experience. |
Fayetteville-Cumberland Parks and Recreation- Clark Park Nature Center |
$ 3,090 |
Clark Park Nature Center Tiny Beasts of NC Display |
Purchase of a diorama of North Carolina biogeographic region. |
Friends of the Cumberland County Public Library, Inc. |
$ 3,129 |
Census Outreach for Hard-to-Count Populations |
Five laptops and cases for nonprofits to assist hard-to-count populations in completing the 2020 Census. |
Heritage Square Historical Society of NC, Inc. |
$ 44,250 |
Baker-Haigh-Nimocks House Renovation |
Restoration of the historic 1804 building. |
Methodist University |
$ 8,335 |
Methodist Kids Association Expansion at Margaret Willis Elementary School |
MU Community Engagement students tutor kids at Margaret Willis Elementary and expand on an existing tutoring program. |
Methodist University |
$ 1,080 |
Hugh Shelton Leadership Challenge |
The Hugh Shelton Challenge is designed to help students expand their knowledge and skills of what it takes to be an effective leader. |
NC Counts Coalition |
$ 26,760 |
Census Outreach Coordinator for Cumberland County |
Part-time Census fellow who will support the county's Complete Counts Commission. |
Partnership for Children |
$ 250,000 |
Family Connects |
Family Connects is an evidence-based voluntary home visiting program that provides support to every newborn in a community by a registered nurse. This grant will be paid out $50,000 over 5 years. |
Rape Crisis Volunteers of Cumberland County |
$ 18,094 |
Intimate Partner Violence Initiative |
Two IPV advocates will be hired to support e-filing of domestic violence victims with the DA and courthouse. |
Service Source, Inc. |
$ 10,000 |
Bloom Art Therapy |
Art therapy for Service Source clients that include selling their artwork at the Friendship House Farmers Market. |
The School of Hope |
$ 6,007 |
Musical Therapy Equipment |
Therapeutic technology for autistic students. |