Recent Grants Your giving has helped make a difference in your community! Hospice of Homer Hospice received a $5,000 Quick Response Grant to help with the production of educational videos that will help tell the story of Hospice to our local community for the purpose of increasing awareness and engagement. Hospice has partnered with Affinity Films, a professional non-profit media … Read More
March 2023 Newsletter, End of Life Giving Part II
Recent Grants You helped make a difference in your community! See how your support has impacted the world around you: Civil Air Patrol Program- Homer CAP was awarded a $1,577 Quick Response Grant supporting the program’s aviation/aerospace education objective involving multi-month builds of remote-controlled planes. The activities teach many engineering and technology principles, reinforce teamwork, and encourage the reaching of … Read More
March 2023 Newsletter: End of Life Giving
Recent Grants You helped make a difference in your community! See how your support has impacted the world around you… Civil Air Patrol – Homer CAP was awarded a $1,577 Quick Response Grant supporting the program’s aviation/aerospace education objective involving multi-month builds of remote-controlled planes. The activities teach many engineering and technology principles, reinforce teamwork, and encourage the reaching of … Read More
February Newsletter: Planned Giving
Recent Grants You helped make a difference in your community! See how your support has impacted the world around you: South Peninsula Hospital Foundation In an effort to build a broad coalition to tackle the local housing shortage, a group of organizers are working together to create a public forum intended to listen to residents and empower them to participate … Read More
January Newsletter: Resolutions
Recent Grants You helped make a difference in your community! See how your support has impacted the world around you: Homer Flex School Given the small nature of this alternative program and limited staff expertise, they are restricted in the number of opportunities to offer students that promote personal artistic expression. For this reason, and because they recognize the importance … Read More
December Newsletter: End of Year Giving
Recent Grants You helped make a difference in your community! See how your support has impacted the world around you: Paul Banks Elementary The Non-Fiction books within the Paul Banks Library were quite aged. To be precise, the average age was 1986. Though the students were highly interested in learning about the world around them, the information was outdated. The … Read More
Annual Meeting
Join us: This Wednesday November 16th, 2022 5:30 pm Islands & Ocean Visitor Center Please join us this week for our Annual Meeting! The meeting features the presentation of our latest annual report, including investment performance review, highlights from our grant programs, and stories of how you, the donors, are strengthening our community. In addition, you have a chance to … Read More
YAC is Back!
Hey there! Did you see the exciting news from the Homer Foundation: the Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) Grant program is now live and accepting applications through November 30th, 2022? This program is accepting applications from organizations that provide programs or services to youth of the southern Kenai Peninsula. This year, the committee is looking to support projects or programs that … Read More
November Newsletter: Many days to remember
Update from the Executive Director Happy November! We have much to celebrate and be thankful for. I could talk about being thankful for family and friends. Good health. For living in such an amazing place and for having a job that helps so many. All true and good reasons be be grateful, but right now, I’m thinking about you. You, … Read More
October 2022 Newsletter: Visiting Seldovia
Update from the Executive Director I was privileged to be able to visit the Seldovia community this month. I met with city administration leaders and Seldovia Village Tribe leadership, and we discussed community needs and local plans and efforts to improve the lives of their neighbors. Thank you all for making me feel welcome! Seldovia faces issues similar to each … Read More