Foundation Announces 2026 First Quarter Discretionary Grants
Education
Education Alliance\
EmpowerEd Fund: Supporting Educators with Flexible
Funding to Transform Teaching and Learning: $52,000
FPC Hope Center, Inc.
Pathways to Independence: Education & Support for Youth
Transitioning from Foster and Kinship Care: $30,000
Exceptional Possibilities of WV, Inc.
Talking Time AAC Summer Camp 2026: $20,350
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation
Jobs for West Virginia’s Graduates: $40,000
CED
Appalachia Service Project
Home Repair and Replacement: $35,000
Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation
Rural Investment Collaborative: Community Investment
Training Graduate Project Support: $25,000
City of Smithers, WV
AmeriCorps for Smithers Continued Tourism Development – $17,700
West Virginia Military Authority
Rooted in Service: Strengthening Small Business and Urban
Agriculture in the Kanawha Valley: $40,000
Health
Fayette County Family Resource Network
Camp SOAR: $40,000
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc.
WV Food is Medicine Coalition: $30,000
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc.
Faith Community Nursing Program 2026: $41,000
Arts & Culture
Appalachian Children’s Chorus, Inc.
Appalachian Festival of Young Voices: $5,000
FestivALL, Charleston, West Virginia, Inc.
FestivALL 2026: $25,000
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Symphony Sunday 2026: America 250, Building Community
Bonds & History Through Orchestral Music: $10,000
Mid-Atlantic Dance Initiative (MADI)
MADI Scholarship Access for Greater Kanawha Valley
Dancers: $9,125
Basic Needs
Community Bridge, Inc.
Food Pantry Freezer Expansion & Supplemental Food
Funding: $25,000
The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation is grateful to our community of generous donors who make these and other grants possible. The programs and work approved for the first quarter of 2026 are supported by the following funds: Anonymous- Emergency Aid; Senator William E. Chilton, Sr.; Christ Life Fellowship Benevolence; William O. Clarkson; Elizabeth R. and Caroline H. Clark; Helen R. Coffindaffer Revocable Inter Vivos Trust; Columbia Gas; Lenore Cox Compton Memorial; Cox Morton; J. Hornor Davis, II; Jane M. and Rugeley P. DeVan, Jr.; Mary Lewis Dickinson; James F. Duncan Charitable; Brent B. Galyean Memorial; Mr. and Mrs. William L. Goldsmith Memorial; Woody and Helen Hunsinger; Bernard H. Jacobson Cultural; Alice Ann Koontz; Lowenstein #1; Lillian M. Mairs; Alfred and Lucy W. McClung; Nancy Gay Randolph; and George and Josephine Rogers.