Foundation’s emergency fund supports COVID-19 response
This spring, as nonprofit organizations serving Piqua residents faced the COVID-19 virus outbreak, The Piqua Community Foundation released the Piqua Emergency Response Fund to support agencies serving the immediate health care, financial and human services needs created by this outbreak.
The Foundation’s Board of Directors committed $50,000 from its unrestricted monies toward the fund and received $14,800 in contributions from individuals and businesses to expand the breadth and depth of the fund’s reach.
To date, The Foundation has dispersed $53,314 to the following 14 nonprofit organizations serving Piqua residents with unique virus outbreak needs:
- Bethany Center — Food bank distributions
- Brukner Nature Center — Equipment for additional trail maintenance due to increased usage
- Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley — Food, utility and supply stipends
- Child Care Choices — Sanitizing products for child care programs
- Council on Rural Service Programs, Inc. — Textbooks to facilitate remote learning
- Friends of MainStreet Piqua — Signage and protective gear for Piqua Community Farmers Market
- Greene Street Daycare and Preschool — Portable hand-washing stations for classroom and playground
- Health Partners Free Clinic — Telehealth delivery hardware and software upgrades
- Miami County Dental Clinic — Personal protective equipment for staff
- Piqua Area Chamber Foundation — Signage for businesses deemed safe to enter
- Piqua City Schools — Gifts for graduates from Piqua High School and Lehman Catholic High School
- Piqua Compassion Network — Food, utility and job-hunting support and family activity and hygiene bags
- Piqua Parents as Teachers — Family craft activity bags
- Salvation Army — Rent, utility, fuel and prescription assistance
Additional funding for emergency funds may be distributed by the fund’s committee on a case-by-case basis as the impacts of the pandemic continue.
For more information about the Emergency Response Fund, visit piquacommunityfoundation.org or email incoming executive director Michelle Perry at michelle@piquacommunityfoundation.org.
Pictured above: Patti Adams, advanced practice nursing student, Health Partners Free Clinic, works with new Telehealth software purchased with a Foundation Emergency Response Fund grant.