Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation
FYE 2001 Grant List
 
Board Initiative
Sts. Peter & Paul Early Learning Center
Winter Park, Florida
Replace asbestos contaminated playground equipment
  $38,111.00
 
Total Board Initiative $38,111.00 (1 item)
 
 
Civic and Community
Community Communications, Inc. - WMFE-TV/FM
Orlando, Florida
Launch of "From Here to There" capital campaign positioning Central Florida PBS/NPR radio and television station
  $199,650.00
 
Community Foundation of Central Florida, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Lead gift establishing Mel Martinez Fund, honoring the legacy of leadership of Mel Martinez, former Chairman of Orange County, Florida
  $20,000.00
 
Healthy Community Initiative of Greater Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Community Capacity Building Project to ensure a continuing community dialogue involving Legacy 2000 report; research and publishing of a second Legacy report in 2002.
  $114,000.00
 
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Lansing, Michigan
Operational support for Rails-to-Trails conservancy and its mission to enrich America's communities and countryside by creating a nationwide network of public trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors
  $6,800.00
 
South Lake County Community Foundation
Clermont, Florida
Challenge grant for capital campaign and equipment.
  $119,860.00
 
Total Civic and Community - $362,060.00 (5 items)
 
 
Cultural
The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
Winter Park, Florida
Youth Education Program Administrator extending the 66 year tradition of the Bach Festival into elementary and secondary schools across Central Florida
  $24,000.00
 
The Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra, Inc.
Winter Park, Florida
Support for the first permanent office and rehearsal hall for the 44 year old Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra
  $55,000.00
 
Mennello Museum of American Folk Art Friends, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Start-up funding for a Friends Group to support Florida's only American Folk Art museum, to increase audience, membership and support
  $50,000.00
 
Total Cultural - $129,000.00 (3 items)
 
 
Education
Adult Literacy League, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Computer & Software Enhancement to assist tutors with training and client reporting via the internet
  $37,000.00
 
Total Education - $37,000.00 (1 item)
 
 
Health Care
Hospice Foundation of Lake & Sumter, Inc.
Tavares, Florida
Provide the capstone grant for the completion of Hospice House II
  $100,000.00
 
Sun System Development Corp. dba Florida Hospital Foundation
Orlando, Florida
Florida Hospital East Orlando Emergency Department Capital Campaign
  $300,000.00
 
Total Health Care - $400,000.00 (2 items)
 
 
Human Services
Bethany Christian Services
Maitland, Florida
To establish a pregnancy services referral network in the Orlando area.
  $85,000.00
 
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Create a planned giving program and hire consultant for Osceola Branch capital improvement
  $325,000.00
 
Canine Companions for Independence, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
A structural fundraising challenge grant across seven states to support the work of the recently constructed Southeast Regional Training Center
  $125,000.00
 
Central Florida YMCA
Orlando, Florida
Lead gift to kick off the New Horizon Campaign to renovate and expand the Osceola County YMCA Family Center
  $200,000.00
 
Children's Home Society of Florida
Orlando, Florida
To Relocate corporate headquarter offices to Orlando, Florida
  $150,000.00
 
Christian HELP Foundation, Inc.
Casselberry, Florida
Completion of the capital campaign to build Barnabas Food Distribution Center
  $110,000.00
 
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
To engage outside evaluation of the fundraising capacity of Central Florida's largest homeless shelter
  $44,945.00
 
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Central Florida and the Florida Suncoast, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
To purchase a Management Information System to provide for new appointment scheduling system and new client trust fund disbursement system.
  $115,000.00
 
Detroit Institute for Children
Detroit, MI
Computer technology infrastructure
  $67,500.00
 
Frontline Outreach, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Implement a comprehensive fundraising department and strategy.
  $119,700.00
 
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Orlando Area, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Create a regional warehouse to reduce costs and to increase housing production
  $158,209.00
 
Living Hope International Ministry, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Fund Development Coordinator
  $58,289.00
 
Seniors First, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
To purchase five ambulatory passenger vehicles equipped with wheelchair lifts to better serve Central FloridaÕs growing senior population
  $250,000.00
 
Weekends of Greater Orlando, Inc.
Orlando, Florida
Implement technology necessary to improve communications with students and for positive after school activities.
  $41,945.00
 
Young Life - Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
  $167,500.00
5 Year program expansion throughout the Orlando Metropolitan Statistical Area of Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Lake Counties
 
Total Human Services - $2,018,088.00 (15 items)
 
 
Other
The Zoological Society of San Diego
San Diego, California
  $29,500.00
Purchase of equipment for the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species to assist in the discovery and characterization of viruses causing a pattern of disease and of defined components of the immune system in targeted endangered species
 
Total Other - $29,500.00 (1 item)
 
 
GRAND TOTAL - $2,165,895.00 (20 items)
 
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