Grants Awarded – 2020

Castle Rock Police Department: $5,500 to purchase three Automatic External Defibrillators to equip emergency vehicles.

Children’s Community Resource: $25,000 to obtain healthcare access, engagement and coordination and supply weekend food boxes to ensure nutritional care of homeless students in Longview and Kelso.

CORE Health: $30,000 to assist CORE procure a Washington State medication license, develop a medication/ medical records area and install hand sanitizers throughout their new homeless shelter for medically fragile clients.

Cowlitz Free Clinic: $60,000 to support operations of the Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic providing urgent medical care and short-term management of chronic care to uninsured adults in the Cowlitz County area.

Cowlitz Free Clinic: $30,000 to support operations of the Cowlitz Denture Dental Program providing dentures for uninsured adults in the Cowlitz County area.

Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments: $18,000 to fund quarterly forums designed to provide health and wellness training to Cowlitz County first responders, their families, administrators and agencies within our community.

FISH of Cowlitz County: $45,000 to assist needy community members to pay for emergency prescriptions, dental care and some medical services.

Hello Life Eating Disorder Recovery Services: $16,250 to provide capacity building for the agency allowing them to serve more members of our community.

Lifeworks: $7,301 to provide antimicrobial flooring for the sensory integration room.

Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation of Cowlitz County: $15,000 to provide vision and hearing care for low-income and homeless people in our community.

Lower Columbia School Gardens: $20,000 to support garden staff for planning and implementation of after-school programming, gardening supplies, cooking equipment and improvements to the garden lab.

Youth and Family Link: $25,000 to support staff for direct services at five local afterschool programs.