ribbon cutting at Sun River Health
The Northeast Dutchess Fund’s 2024 responsive grantmaking awarded $254,350 to 28 local nonprofits with a focus on community engagement, food security, youth enrichment, housing, immigrant services, and transportation. This flexible, responsive grantmaking channels funds directly to areas of greatest need, based on feedback from residents and the organizations that support them.
In addition to the responsive grants, the Northeast Dutchess Fund directed $30,000 to BTCF’s Neighbor-to-Neighbor Fund for emergency financial assistance and a combined $19,000 to Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue and the Wassaic Project for organizational capacity building.
The NEDCorps Immigrant Support grant program is an essential component of NEDCorps, a 17-year initiative of the Northeast Dutchess Fund which serves low-income individuals, families, immigrants, and youth in northeast Dutchess county. NEDCorps provides funding and opportunities for clients to connect with community resources to ensure their basic needs are met, and to help them achieve greater resiliency in difficult times. In 2024, NEDCorps completed its fourth year of Immigrant Support Grants and awarded a total of $62,000, with the Northeast Dutchess Fund contributing $22,000 of the funding. Moreover, NEDCorps allocated an additional $60,000 to help clients secure stable housing. By working closely with landlords, case managers advocate for tenants' rights, helping them secure annual leases and more sustainable living conditions. Additional 2024 grant funding will be announced early in the new year.
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Together, we can make life in northeast Dutchess County even better.
Neighbor-to-Neighbor for Northeast Dutchess County $30,000.00 general operating support Center For Nonprofit Excellence- PTA grants $19,000.00 PTA Grants Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse $10,000.00 Personal Safety Program Center of Compassion $10,000.00 Operations Support Grant Clinton Community Library $6,000.00 Optimistic Aging 2024 Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County $10,000.00 Literacy In Action 1 Dover Union Free School District $1,500.00 Dover Guitar Program; Eric Anderson Food of Life/Comida de Vida Pantry $10,000.00 Food Insecurity Missions at St. Thomas Amenia Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County of Wappingers Falls $35,000.00 Mobile Home Repair and Replacement Program Hudson Valley Hospice $10,000.00 Charity Care for Under or Uninsured Patients Innisfree Foundation $6,000.00 2024 Innisfree Community Days Legal Services of the Hudson Valley $10,000.00 Free Civil Legal Services for Residents of Northeast Dutchess County, 2024 Long Table Harvest $5,000.00 The Gleaning Program, Long Table Harvest Millbrook Early Childhood Education Center $10,000.00 Scholarship Assistance Program at Millbrook Early Childhood Education Center (MECEC) Millbrook Library $10,000.00 Millbrook Library Connectivity Kits & Public Computer Update New Pine Plains Herald $10,000.00 New Pine Plains Herald North East Community Center, Inc. $10,000.00 General Operating Support, Transportation Program Assistant North East Community Center, Inc. $10,000.00 Adopt A Family Program NorthEast-Millerton Library $1,600.00 Music in the Annex 2024 Concert Series Nuvance Health Foundation $10,000.00 Workforce Development Program: Career Readiness Initiative at Sharon Hospital Rebuilding Together Hudson Valley $6,000.00 2024 Rebuilding Day Program Support Rock Steady Farm and Flowers $10,000.00 Rock Steady Farm General Support Sisters Hill Farm $9,250.00 Ten full CSA shares @ 925 per share for low income Northeast Dutchess County residents. Sky High Farm $5,000.00 Sky High Farm Food Access Program Stonewood Community Project $10,000.00 The Market Garden at Stonewood The Susie Reizod Foundation $3,500.00 New Shoes Donation Program for Economically Insecure Children in Northeast Dutchess Town of Dover $500.00 For Those Who Work in Acres, Not Hours: Cultivating Fertile Minds at the Farm Village of Millerton $5,000.00 Century Boulevard Redevelopment Planning & Design Project Wassaic Project $10,000.00 General Operating 2024 Willow Roots $10,000.00 Willow Roots Food Pantry & Giving Box Center For Nonprofit Excellence- board leadership scholarships $500.00 area fund sponsored scholarships for the 2024 Institute of Trustees
Advisory Committee
Sarah S. Stack, Clinton Corners, Chair
Annemarie C. Abrams, Dover Plains
Diana Bontecou, Millbrook
Gloria G. Callen, Millbrook
Wendy Curtis, Millerton
Deban Flexner, Millbrook
Nancy N. Hathaway, Millbrook
Ken Holzberg, Millbrook
David Offensend, Wassaic
Daphne Richards, Stanfordville
Nancy Stahl, Millbrook
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Aileen Meehan, BTCF Community Engagement Officer
