The Searstone/Lutheran Services Carolinas Community Benefit Committee recently announced $422,150 in grants to 15 organizations in Wake County.
Since 2014, the committee has directed five percent of revenues from the operation of Searstone, an independent living community in Cary, to Wake County nonprofit organizations serving seniors, indigent seniors, or other vulnerable populations.
The following organizations received awards for the last grant cycle: Bridge the Gap Mission; Caring Community Foundation; FIGS of Wake County, Inc.; Inter-Faith Food Shuttle; Jewish Federation of Raleigh-Cary; Kraft Family YMCA; North Raleigh Ministries; Note in the Pocket; PLM Families Together; Resources for Seniors; Rotary Memory Café of Cary; SAFEchild; Sleep in Heavenly Peace; The Carying Place, Inc.; and The Center for Volunteer Caregiving.
Photo caption: From left to right: Mae Freeman, program director of information services for Resources for Seniors, Inc.; Kristina Isaac, community relations coordinator for Note in the Pocket; Katherine Vance, associate executive director of youth development at Kraft Family YMCA; Ann Thomas, executive director of FIGS of Wake County, Inc.; Kylee McCombs, director of community health and nutrition at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle; Kimberly Burrows, vice president of development at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle; Danielle Pennington, grants and development manager at PLM Families Together; Paige Watts, grant administrator at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle; Zella Bracy, chapter co-president, Sleep in Heavenly Peace Fuquay-Varina; Derrick Moore, Searstone executive director; Angie Field, Branch Executive Director of the Kraft Family YMCA; Bradford Brady, executive director of Caring Community Foundation; Madison Lozano, food pantry programs manager at North Raleigh Ministries; Gordon Carson of Memory Café of Cary; Caroline Sagaon, donor relations and communications coordinator at North Raleigh Ministries; Jim Lovejoy of Memory Café of Cary; Elaine Whitford, executive director of The Center for Volunteer Caregiving; Bob Umstead, board member of Bridge the Gap Mission; Leslie Covington, executive director of The Carying Place, Inc.; and Searstone Grant Committee Members Dave Wolf and Joan DeBruin.