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Collaborations Senior Initiative FUNDING
COLLABORATION AWARDS $341,729 IN GRANTS The Foundation for Community Health (initially funded with the net assets of the conversion of Sharon Hospital) has joined The Community Foundation of Dutchess County, The Dyson Foundation, and United Way of Dutchess County, in a collaborative grant program to provide quality of life services, with a focus on transportation, to the isolated elderly in Dutchess County. A $59,459 grant from The Foundation for Community Health is part of a three-year commitment for a van that will operate out of the North East Community Center in Millerton, NY and provide transportation for Amenia seniors to medical appointments and other quality of life destinations in northeast Dutchess County. With this grant, the FCH joins this collaborative that recently awarded a second round of grants. In addition to the first grants made by the collaborative, The Community Foundation of Dutchess County, United Way of Dutchess County, and The Dyson Foundation contributed $105,000 more to the effort ($35,000 from each agency), and combined with the grant from The Foundation for Community Health, awarded a total of four new grants to further assist senior citizens throughout Dutchess County:
The initial funding collaboration between The Community Foundation of Dutchess County, United Way of Dutchess County, and The Dyson Foundation occurred in 2003 and awarded five grants to local agencies that provide quality of life services to isolated senior citizens in Dutchess County as follows:
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