BLUEBONNET COOP AWARDS COMMUNITY GRANTS

  

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative’s Board of Directors unanimously voted to award $1.2 million in Bluebonnet Community Grants to 42 area nonprofit organizations.

Public safety organizations received nearly half of the grants awarded. These grants will be used to purchase equipment, including wildland firefighting vehicles, radios, self-contained oxygen tanks and breathing masks and thermal imaging cameras, and make improvements to or build new fire stations and training facilities.

The other Bluebonnet grants went to nonprofit groups that provide health care, shelter, food, transportation and other vital services to people in need in the 14 counties served by the co-op. Some grants will fund important cultural activities in the community.

Among the local recipients:

Organization: Camp for All Foundation, Burton
Project: Repair dam/drainage system for camp’s lake
Capital grant: $50,000

Organization: Faith Mission & Help Center, Brenham
Project: New thrift store/donation distribution center
Capital grant: $50,000

Organization: Washington Volunteer Fire Department
Project: New Volunteer Fire Department and Community Training Center
Capital grant: $50,000

Organization: Meyersville Volunteer Fire Department
Project: Expand facility with truck bays, office space and training room
Capital grant: $37,500

Organization: Boys and Girls Club of Washington County
Project: Purchase school bus
Capital grant: $28,148

Organization: Prairie Hill - Rocky Hill Volunteer Fire Department
Project: Firefighter equipment
Capital grant: $24,990

Organization: Unity Theatre Company
Project: A/C upgrade of theater
Capital grant: $20,071

Organization: Bleiblerville Volunteer Fire Department
Project: Firefighting vehicle/equipment
Capital grant: $19,500

For a complete list of nonprofit organizations that were awarded grants, visit the Bluebonnet Community Grants webpage at bluebonnet.coop/grants.