(Johnsburg, NY December 18, 2005) The Trustees of the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation have announced the recipients of their year 2005-2006 grant funding year.
Fall of 2005
- Adirondack Arts and Healing Retreat at Great Camp Sagamore
- North Country Public Radio for continued funding of Natural Selections
- Watershed Stewardship program summer outreach projects
- Adirondack Community Trust for training seminars for not for profit organizations
- Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts for after school art programs
- Warren-Hamilton Counties Community Action Agency to assist in stocking the food pantry
- Essex County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program to help fund recruitment of additional volunteers
- Adirondack Museum for continued support of the Cabin Fever series
- Stevenson Society of America for a speakers honorarium and travel expenses for Jenni Calder of Edinborough, Scotland
- Mountain Lakes PBS to help underwrite Art Express
- Skene Manor to help support educational programs
- Wildlife Conservation Society to support a community exchange day
- Literacy Volunteers of Essex County to support their Roo the Reader program
- High Peaks Hospice Inc. to produce and distribute an educational DVD
- Bluseed Studio to help fund 15 open mic nights
The Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation is a private foundation created in December of 2000 to improve the Quality of Life for year round residents of the Adirondack Park.
Applications for 2006-2007 funding will be accepted between July 1, 2006 and August 30, 2006. The foundation can be contacted by writing PO Box 105, Johnsburg, NY 12843 or via their website http://www.PearsallFoundation.org.