Gifts to the Gallia Community Foundation’s endowment fund are invested, with earnings from those dollars returned to our communities through grants to nonprofits, schools and public organizations serving our neighbors.
With the support of our donors and in partnership with FAO, our grants fund projects and programs that advance opportunities across five areas, known as our Pillars of Prosperity: arts and culture, community and economic development, education, environmental stewardship, and health and human services. Emphasis is on supporting individuals of all ages who are spearheading projects and programs that create opportunities, meet pressing needs and unleash the potential within Gallia County.
The 2024 grant application closed on Sept. 10.
A growing impact, year after year
More than $24,000 awarded in 2024!
In 2024, the Gallia Community Foundation, in partnership with the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, awarded 10 grants, totaling $24,191, to support projects and programs benefiting the county’s residents and communities.
Grant Recipients
- Samuel L. Bossard Memorial Library to purchase an early literacy station for children ages 2-8
- Court Street Ministries to purchase food for unsheltered, at-risk and financially disadvantaged community members
- E3THREE to support the development of a financial literacy program for Boy and Girl Scout troops in Gallia County
- Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to enroll additional Gallia County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
- Economic and Community Development Institute to support the Women’s Business Center of Central Appalachia’s eight-week entrepreneurship bootcamp in Gallia County
- Gallipolis First Church of the Nazarene Food Pantry to purchase food for its monthly distributions
- Gallia County Council on Aging to provide iPad/tablet training to senior citizens to increase their digital literacy and connectivity, supported by the AT&T Foundation
- God’s Hands At Work to purchase new freezers for its food pantry
- John Gee Black Historical Center to purchase audio and visual equipment for programming and presentations at the center
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio to help cover the cost of overnight stays for Gallia County families
- Appalachian Breastfeeding Network to fund Gallia County residents’ participation in a training program designed to increase lactation education in the community
- Court Street Ministries to fund children’s holiday stockings, community dinners and other items for unsheltered and at-risk individuals in Gallia County
- Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to enroll additional Gallia County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
- Ohio University Foundation to fund Gallia County youth’s participation in the Ohio University Diabetes Institute’s CAT Camp, a day camp for youth with Type 1 diabetes
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio to help cover the cost of overnight stays for Gallia County families
- Square One GJM to purchase groceries for the shelter
- University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College to support the Center for Entrepreneurship’s inaugural student pitch competition
- inspiHER Girls Leadership Foundation to support the inspiHER Girls Leadership Retreat for Gallia County fifth- through eighth-grade girls at the University of Rio Grande
- The iBELIEVE Foundation to fund the participation of Gallia County youth in the 2024 iBELIEVE Youth Leadership Workshops
- Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to help enroll additional Gallia County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
- Economic and Community Development Institute to support the Women’s Business Center of Central Appalachia’s Lunch-and-Learn series and its forthcoming Dinner-and-Development series
- Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland Council for its Girl Scout Leadership Experience
- God’s Hands At Work for its mobile food pantry
- John Gee Black Historical Center to initiate a bathroom remodel project
- Economic and Community Development Institute Inc. for the Women’s Business Center of Central Appalachia- Gallia Entrepreneurship
- Gallia County Agricultural Society Inc. for the Gallia County Fair relocation project
Explore other grant opportunities available through the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio.
