The Avila Beach Community Foundation is pleased to announce our grantees for 2013:

Avila Beach Civic Association
Project: Management Support
Amount Funded: $15,750

• The purpose of this grant is to provide the ABCA resources to operate the Avila Beach Community Center.  These funds will partially fund the Executive Director, whose duties are to provide leadership, manage and administer all functions of the organization to ensure that programs and services will be provided. 

Avila Beach Civic Association
Project: Achievement House Clean-Up Crew
Amount Funded: $5,670

• This grant provides funds for the Achievement House crew to conduct clean-up work on and around the town of Avila Beach during high visitor season in 2013.  These clean-up efforts are focused on areas of the town not handled by County Public Works.

Avila Beach Junior Lifeguard Program
Project: Summer Program Support
Amount Funded: $7,000

• This grant will help fund the highly popular summer program that involves 200 youngsters annually by subsidizing costs associated with scholarships, equipment, transportation, and storage.

People’s Self-Help Housing
Project: Case Supportive Housing Case Management Services
Amount Funded: $6,500

• This grant covers most of the cost for 8 hours a week of case-management support for residents of the Lachen Tara Apartments, a subsidized housing complex in Avila Beach.  Case management helps residents access community services and transition into permanent affordable housing.

Port San Luis
Project: Mutt Mitts
Amount Funded: $4,200

• This grant will fund the purchase of roughly 100,000 bio-degradable doggy waste bags to be placed in dispensers along high dog traffic beaches, pier and parking areas, thus making it easier for dog walkers to help keep our beach area clean.

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF)
Project: Avila Beach Film Festival Venue Support
Amount Funded: $3,500

• This grant will fund the purchase of quality projection equipment and rental of the Avila Beach Community Center as part of the “Festival’s” 2013 program line-up.  The new equipment will be housed at and managed by the Community Center for year-round use by renters and for special fundraising events.

Save Our Schoolhouse
Project: Website Redesign
Amount Funded: $1,100

• This grant will fund a website project to help educate residents and visitors on the status of the historic schoolhouse, and to promote fundraising and raise awareness of the site.

Cancer Well-Fit Program
Project:  Recovery Program for Recovering Cancer Survivors
Amount Funded:  Up to $4,000 as a Matching Grant

• This grant will fund the expansion of the number of individuals able to enroll in an 8-week series of classes (held at the Avila Bay Club at no cost) that address the physical, emotional and social needs of recovering cancer patients.

Free Avila Beach Trolley
Project:  Subsidize Free Trolley Rides
Amount:  $5,000

• This is a continuation of the Foundation’s commitment to enable South County Area Transit to operate a trolley (during high season and Friday Fish and Farmers’ Market weekends) that is free to riders who want to come to Avila Beach in a loop that extends from Port San Luis to the Pismo Beach Outlets.