News
2011 JSCF Healthy Community Grant Awarded
Oct. 10, 2011 - Thanks to our generous donors, we are pleased to announce our 3rd annual Healthy Communities grant recipients. Again this year, we were able to award a total of $5000 to local non-profits who are accomplishing remarkable work in the northern Susitna Valley.
2011 award winners include:
- Sunshine Transit Coalition
- Trapper Creek Pre-School
- Upper Susitna Youth Conservation Corp
- Talkeetna Build A Plane Project
- Sunshine Station Childcare Center
- Talkeetna Elementary PTA
Some of these organizations are receiving funding from us for a second year, partly because we are pleased with the work they were doing. All the organizations and projects that received grants shared our goal of working toward creating healthier communities by offering increased opportunities for residents in the northern Susitna communities.
Talkeetna Bachelor Society Fund Launched
Feb. 9, 2010 -- The Jessica Stevens Community Foundation opened an endowment fund for the benefit of women and children in crisis in the Upper Susitna Valley. The fund, called the Talkeetna Bachelor Society Fund for Women and Children in Crisis was initially funded by its namesake, the Talkeetna Bachelor Society, which holds a fund-raiser each year that includes the Wilderness Women's Contest and the Talkeetna Bachelor Auction.
The endowment will grow year after year as the Talkeetna Bachelor Society continues to support causes to help women and children in the Upper Susitna Valley. For more information, contact robert@jessicasfoundation.org.
Foundation Announces 2010 BP Mat-Su Challenge Grant Recipients
July 15 -- The Jessica Stevens Community Foundation made awards to the 20 nonprofit organizations as part of a cooperative program with BP Exploration Alaska. BP has teamed with JSCF to promote philanthropy throughout the Mat-Su Borough by encouraging citizens to contribute to the many worthy nonprofits in the area. Through the BP Mat-Su Valley Challenge Grant, JSCF matched nearly $100,000 in funds raised by these organizations through Oct. 31.
To assist grantees in their fundraising efforts, JSCF partnered in 2009 with the Foraker Group to provide technical support and free training sessions on donor solicitation and stewardship. For more information, contact robert@jessicasfoundation.org.
Grantees:
- Palmer Arts Council
- Family Promise Mat-Su (Mat-Su Valley Interfaith Hospitality Network)
- Friends of Mat-Su
- Denali Arts Council
- Valley Arts Alliance
- Matanuska Community Health Care (The Children’s Place)
- Alaskans for Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge
- North America Outdoor Institute
- Radio Free Palmer
- Classroom With A View, Inc.
- Talkeetna Community Radio, Inc.
- Community Sports Inc (Sponsored by Mat-Su RC&D)
- Valley Center for Recycling Solutions
- Willow Health Organization
- Valley Performing Arts
- Alaska Farmlands Trust Corporation
- Palmer Museum of History and Art
- Alaska Wildbird Rehab Center Mat-Su Ski Club
- Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry