During its 2019-20 fiscal year, the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation is awarding
$163,090, the third year of multi-year funding to the following nine agencies:
- Center for Child and Family Services for Peaceful Families
- Child Development Resources, Inc. for Parents as Teachers
- Commonwealth Catholic Charities for Refugee Mental Health Support Services
- Housing Development Corporation of Hampton Roads to assist with purchasing a house
- Menchville House Ministries, Inc. for Core Operating Support and to provide a summer camp
- Natasha House for Core Operating Support
- Postpartum Support Virginia to expand its services to Newport News and Hampton
- Transitions Family Violence Services for Safe Horizon
- Virginia Beach Justice Initiative for the Restoring Hope Stabilization Home Program.
$400,000 in grants
- $100,000 in the category of Entrepreneurial Thinking which is open to all nonprofits in Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson, York County and Gloucester County.
- $105,000 to hire Catchafire to provide professional assistance to all nonprofits in Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson, York County and Gloucester County.
- $120,000 in Unrestricted Grants, $10,000 each awarded to
Center for Sexual Assault Survivors
Gloucester Housing Partnership
Housing Development Corporation of Hampton Roads
- $75,000 to collaborate with the United Way in the areas of transportation and housing, two of the ten community aspirations to achieve its goals for “Pathways Out of Poverty
- $30,000 in Ongoing Education Funds
- $20,000 as Set-Aside Funds
- $25,500 to Mary Immaculate Hospital
- $140,250 to the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis (Bernardine Franciscan Sisters)