Wicomico County Executive Richard M. Pollitt, Jr., budgeted $50,000 in Fiscal Year 2008 as grant money to be distributed to deserving non-profit organizations in Wicomico County. Following a process of inviting and screening applicants, Mr. Pollitt will distribute his first Community Enrichment Grants to 14 worthy groups at a presentation ceremony at 5:30 P.M. next Tuesday, April 15th, in the DaNang Room at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center.
The organizations receiving funding are: Art Institute & Gallery/ Big Brothers, Big Sisters/Deaf Independent Living Association/Dove Pointe Daycare Field Trips/Easter Seals/Girl Scouts/Kappa Alpha Psi/Lower Shore American Red Cross/MAC, Inc./Salisbury Advisory Youth Council/Salisbury Jaycees/Salvation Army Awards Banquet/SHORE UP!/Urban Salisbury.
Mr. Pollitt will announce the amount of the grants at the ceremony.
This sucks. He puts these non - profits before Tax Payer entitlements. Explain this. They are supposed to raise their own money are they not?
ReplyDeleteRidiculous. And just last week he told us at the Civic Center meeting that things were tough and everything that was "pork" would be cut. This is much worse than those $23 pens -- where's Joe Holloway when we really need him?
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