Grants Awarded
As indicated, users may search by Program Area, State, or Year of Authorization. In addition, by entering a term in the criteria field, the search will return grants with that term in either the organization name or city fields.
Grant seekers are reminded that the emphasis of the Foundation’s grants program evolves over time and that prior grants may not be indicative of the Foundation’s future program emphasis.
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West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For expansion of the student intellectual property and patent services project at the WVU College of Law serving student innovators
Date Awarded: 06/09/2015
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $96,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For the 2015 Community Leadership Academy – pre-conference training program
Date Awarded: 06/15/2015
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $3,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support demolition and redevelopment of abandoned and dilapidated structures along gateways to communities which are participating in the statewide program to address blight
Date Awarded: 12/08/2015
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To assist communities in writing successful applications for funding to remove vacant and dilapidated structures
Date Awarded: 03/08/2016
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For mapping and connecting major research strengths of West Virginia, Southwestern Pennsylvania & eastern Ohio universities and private facilities to attract new sponsors and drive regional economic development in natural gas utilization and manufacturing
Date Awarded: 04/08/2016
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To host a West Virginia legislators forum on education
Date Awarded: 06/14/2016
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support downtown redevelopment activities in ten Mon Forest Towns in collaboration with multiple partner organizations (over three years)
Date Awarded: 12/08/2020
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $300,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For the Appalachian Vision Outreach Program partnership to provide needed vision screenings to optimize vision health
Date Awarded: 03/09/2021
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For a cohort-based project that enables kindergarten and first grade teachers to acquire Literacy Education Master’s degrees and Reading Specialist certifications
Date Awarded: 03/09/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $121,500.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support the costs of identification, preparation, and submission of high-quality funding proposals for priority projects and to measure performance indicators for the Mon Forest Towns Initiative (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/09/2021
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $210,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support a set of demonstration projects designed to improve reading levels of high-risk young children
Date Awarded: 06/08/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $400,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support advancing community led projects in collaboration with university faculty and student teams through experiential learning activities
Date Awarded: 09/14/2021
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $151,150.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For a student-centered rural business incubator
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $155,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For continuation of a multi-phase project that will identify, support, and fund early literacy project proposals designed to improve reading levels of young children across West Virginia
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $400,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To feature West Virginia’s entrepreneur development efforts in a week-long series of conferences and events
Date Awarded: 01/21/2022
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $14,500.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For the Appalachian Vision Outreach Program (AVOP) to address vision care to patients that are financially or geographically isolated
Date Awarded: 03/08/2022
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $120,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For the West Virginia Statewide Afterschool Network to complete a mapping project of out-of-school time programs in West Virginia to determine gaps in service and program quality needs (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/08/2022
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To provide a collaborative course for health care professionals on the application of evidence-based pharmacological and counseling interventions for effective tobacco abstinence
Date Awarded: 03/08/2022
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $53,950.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For Focus Forward’s fourth symposium “West Virginia’s New Narrative” a gathering of business, government and education leaders to explore forward-thinking ideas aimed to strengthen West Virginia’s workforce and economy
Date Awarded: 04/29/2022
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $15,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support, in high-need areas, a second set of demonstration projects designed to improve reading levels for West Virginia children from birth to age eight
Date Awarded: 09/13/2022
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $400,000.00