CHAIN OF CHECKS AWARDS
$25,000 IN GRANTS

• Blue Ridge Habitat For Humanity to help seniors, veterans and people with disabilities make home repairs.
• St. Luke Community Clinic Dental Program will buy needed equipment and provide extra days that a dentist will be on duty.
• Winchester Rescue Mission will renovate their reception space to make it more welcoming and comforting to homeless families seeking shelter.
• Sinclair Health Clinic will create ‘A Place For Moms’, a pregnancy-centered care space at the current location.
• The Adult Care Center will convert their grant into building a better nutrition program for their participants.

Applications for the grants were submitted online through the Community Foundation NSV, and then reviewed by the Foundation’s community-conscious selection committee.

The $25,000 campaign dollars were accumulated from a variety of sources:

• Chain of Checks corporate sponsors, Bill and Lois Reynolds, and White House Foods (the Gum family)
• Earnings from the Chain of Checks endowment overseen by the Community Foundation NSV
• Half the proceeds from opening night of Frederick County Parks and Rec’s ‘Winter Wonderland’
• A golf tournament at Rock Harbor in October
• Clarke County Community Band’s Christmas concerts
• Canisters (change jars to change lives) at various businesses including 15 Handy Mart locations
• Beautiful on-line and mailed-in donations from individuals and businesses.

Barry Lee, founder of the Chain of Checks said: “These grants will impact so many lives in so many ways. We are blessed in this community to be surrounded by people with huge hearts.”

Applications for the 2023 Chain of Checks campaign will open through the Community Foundation of Northern Shenandoah Valley website in late spring at www.cfnsv.org

For more information contact Nancy Silva, Executive Director of the Community Foundation (email: director@CFNSV.org) and the Chain of Checks website, www.chainofchecks.com

CHAIN OF CHECKS PHOTO GALLERY

Corporate Sponsor, Bill and Lois Reynolds

Corporate Sponsor, White House Foods
(The Gum Family)

Ashley Ferguson of Frederick County Parks and Rec presents a BIG check representing half the proceeds from the opening night of ‘Walking In A Winter Wonderland’.

Kim Herbstritt and Kimberly Wilt of Blue Ridge Habitat For Humanity will apply their $5,000 grant to helping seniors, veterans and people with disabilities make home repairs.

The St. Luke Community Clinic Dental Program will use their $5,000 gift to purchase needed supplies and extend the number of days that a dentist will be on duty.  Accepting is Executive Director, Vicki Davies.

Brandan Thomas, the Executive Director of the Winchester Rescue Mission accepts a $5,000 check which will help create a warm and welcoming reception area for greeting homeless families seeking shelter.

Katrina McClure, Executive Director of the Sinclair Health Clinic, receives a $5,000 grant to help create a pregnancy-centered care space, ‘A Place For Moms’.

Katie Devolites, Executive Director of the Adult Care Center in Winchester receives $5,000 from the Chain of Checks campaign. The grant will be used to enhance the Center’s nutrition program, especially the procurement of fresh fruits and vegetables from local farm markets.

This donation link will take you to the Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley
website who will process your donation.

Your donation is tax deductible

Community Foundation of Northern Shenandoah Valley:
540-869-6776, Nancy Silva, Executive Director

Chain of Checks:
Barry Lee, 540-409-6929 (email-BreakfastWithBarryLee@gmail.com)