Bloomington Officials Announce Grant Recipients For Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission Service Projects

Last updated on Thursday, January 5, 2017

(BLOOMINGON) - Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced that the City of Bloomington’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission has awarded grants totaling $31,000 to local organizations for “A Day On! Not A Day Off” volunteer service projects.

Mayor Hamilton urges local residents to honor Dr. King by participating in one of the day's many community-centered activities.

"The City is proud to award the grants for Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration projects and initiatives as they honor the memory and spirit of Dr. King," Hamilton said.

Service for Peace ($15,000), Serve Indiana ($10,000), and The Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County ($6,000) provided grants to the City of Bloomington. All funds are being awarded to local groups to help them acquire any materials and supplies volunteers will use during the 2017 Day of Service and subsequent "40 Days of Peace."

The groups receiving funds and the amounts are included in the table below. Additional volunteer service projects that did not request project funding also will be taking place.

For more information and a list of service projects for media with contact information, please visit http://www.bloomingtonvolunteernetwork.org/mlk or contact Special Projects Coordinator Michael Shermis at (812) 349-3471.

Those receiving grants are:

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 18 Connecting Children to Veterans: Collecting For the Good of Others$4,000
Bloomington Community Orchard Planting an Educational Fruit Grove at Ivy Tech$500
Bloomington PRIDE LGBTQ+ Resource Library$500
Boxcar Bookstore & Community Center, Inc. Free Social Justice Literature for Youth & Families$500
Bring Hanah Home Feed our Furry Friends Food Event with Area 10 on Aging$500
Center for Sustainable Living The Fierce Urgency of Now: Time to Choose$1,470
Community Kitchen of Monroe County, Inc.A Kid's Passport to Nutrition$2,020
Congregation Beth Shalom Noah's Ark #4$575
Creek/Love Classroom Rogers Elementary Living Civil Rights Through Music$2,000
CUBAmistad El Arte y el Camino a la Equidad (Art and the Path to Equity)$500
Groups Scholars Program IrespectU: Community Engagement Campaign$250
Harmony School Harmony School Social Action Day$1,000
Hoosier Hills Food Bank MLK Day Food Packing Event!$1,000
Interfaith Community of Environmentalist Youth (ICEY) It's Our World, Let's Take Action$500
Lotus Education & Arts Foundation One Million Stars to End Violence: Lotus International Star-Weaving Project $1,500
Middle Way House, Inc.Peaceful Plans Abound at Middle Way House$985
Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project MLK Pack-a-thon $1,000
Monroe County Humane Association MCHA North Location Education and Outreach Support $425
Monroe County Public Library - Children's Services A Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration$500
Monroe County United Ministries, Inc.Cleaning & Hygiene Closet Conversion$500
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard Community Garden and Food Pantry Service Project$500
My Sister's Closet of Monroe County Addressing the Needs of Family Economic Stability Season to Season
$1,000 New Leaf-New Life Community Flat Tire Workshop$500
New Leaf-New Life Resource building collaborative initiative$2,430
St. Paul Catholic Center Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service: An Interfaith and Intergenerational Volunteer Experience $2,500
The Project School The Project School Care Packages Project for Shalom Community Center$1,000
The Salvation Army Free Day of Vision$500
Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS Indiana) Shake It Up Shaker Bottles$500
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County, Inc.Brighten VIM, Brighten Lives$470
WFHB Community Radio MLK Amplified: Student Reflections of Martin Luther King, Jr. $1,000
Wheeler Mission Ministries Making It a Home - Painting Project$375

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