{"id":1973,"date":"2021-06-10T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:02:28","slug":"permian-basin-area-foundation-announces-1-8-million-in-grant-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/permian-basin-area-foundation-announces-1-8-million-in-grant-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Permian Basin Area Foundation Announces $1.8 million in Grant Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>Midland, Texas (June 10, 2021) &#8211; Permian Basin Area Foundation has awarded $1,843,500 to nonprofit organizations serving West Texans during its spring grant cycle. The Foundation resumed its regular competitive grant cycles this year, after delaying last year&#8217;s spring cycle and focused on emergency funding due to the immediate needs presented by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so proud of our nonprofit organizations who continue to step up and serve our community. We are hopeful and look forward to the day when we can gather together and celebrate these organizations and the wonderful work they are doing in our communities,&#8221; stated Grants Administrator Meagan Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The competitive grants were awarded in early June. Grants were made to the following organizations:<\/p>\n3:11 Ministries<br \/>\nAlzheimer&#8217;s Association West Texas Chapter-Midland<br \/>\nBig Bend Conservation Alliance<br \/>\nBynum School<br \/>\nCanine Companions for Independence<br \/>\nCassatt in the Basin!<br \/>\nChihuahuan Desert Research Institute<br \/>\nCulberson County Food Pantry<br \/>\nEctor County ISD Education Foundation<br \/>\nGreater Ideal Family Life Center<br \/>\nJeff Davis County Ambulance Service (The Mountain Medics)<br \/>\nMake-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas (West Texas Region)<br \/>\nMarathon Primary Care Service, Inc.<br \/>\nMarfa Studio of Arts<br \/>\nMcDonald Observatory<br \/>\nMidland Education Foundation<br \/>\nMidland Historical Society<br \/>\nMidland Shared Spaces Inc.<br \/>\nMission Center Adult Day Service<br \/>\nNorth Side Movement<br \/>\nNortheast Midland County Volunteer Fire Department<br \/>\nOdessa College Foundation<br \/>\nReflection Ministries of Texas<br \/>\nS.H.A.R.E<br \/>\nSchool of Constructive Arts<br \/>\nScurry County United Way<br \/>\nSnyder Community Resource Center<br \/>\nTeen FLOW Youth Ministry<br \/>\nThe Field&#8217;s Edge<br \/>\nThe Prosthetic Foundation<br \/>\nWest Texas Gifts of Hope<br \/>\nYoung Audiences, Inc. of Houston<br \/>\nYucca Blossom Montessori School\n<p>As a part of those competitive grant awards, the Foundation awarded $320,000 to 10 organizations from the Dollie Ruth Neal Education Fund. The purpose of this fund is to provide education opportunities for women across West Texas, with an emphasis on empowering single mothers to become self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation will be debuting a new online grant application system for the fall. Continue to check <a href=\"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/grants\">www.pbaf.org\/grants<\/a> to view updates and new application procedures. The deadline will continue to be October 1.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Canine-Companions-for-Independence-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Canine Companions for Independence\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1707\" title=\"Canine Companions for Independence\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tCanine Companions for Independence\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/West-Texas-Gifts-of-Hope-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"West Texas Gifts of Hope\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" title=\"West Texas Gifts of Hope\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tWest Texas Gifts of Hope\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Bynum-School.jpg\" alt=\"Bynum School\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Bynum School\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tBynum School\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midland, Texas (June 10, 2021) &#8211; Permian Basin Area Foundation has awarded $1,843,500 to nonprofit organizations serving West Texans during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}