Congratulations!

to our Spring 2025 Grant Recipients

Spring 2025

  • Morgan County Public Library

    MCPL is a local, rural library in a rural, low-income area of West Virginia. This grant supported their purchase of a three-year subscription to a genealogical database, as many patrons have great interest in researching their genealogy and heritage.

    MCPL is also home to the Morgan County Historical Society.

    https://www.mocolibrary.com

  • New York Catholic Worker (St. Joseph House)

    The New York Catholic Worker is the original Catholic Worker community, and has been operating for nearly 100 years. This grant supported much-needed renovations to their facility, including to the restrooms. NYCW offers hospitality (long-term and for meals, laundry, and showers during the day) to neighbors in the lower east side of Manhattan who are facing homelessness.

  • Life or Drugs, Tri-State Support

    LODTSS offers support to families with loved ones struggling with addiction, and provides resources and a safe environment for individuals impacted by substance use disorders. They host weekly support meetings and offer educational and preventative services to empower individuals and families affected by addiction. This grant is for office and administrative expenses.

    https://www.lifeordrugs.org/

  • Tear Cap Workshops

    Tear Cap Workshops is based in Oxford County, ME, and is dedicated to unleashing creativity through hands-on learning and crafts education. This is our second grant to the organization, to help them restart programs which slowed during a major facilities renovation. Programs include papermaking, bookbinding, and linen flax production. Many local families homeschool and come to Tear Cap to learn skills they can apply at home and teach to their children.

    https://tearcapworkshops.org/

  • Graceann Beckett

    The Teazey Foundation likes to highlight and honor those who stand up for their communities. This is our second grant to Graceann, to support her as she pursues her graduate degree, which will further develop her skills in communicating the needs of small rural communities, like the one she was born into, with an academic community which typically has little experience in this world.

Past Recipients

  • F21 - Individual - Majorie Hudson (PA)

    to support a legal defense against a hog CAFO developing in an ecologically sensitive area

  • F21 - Organization - Tear Caps Workshops (ME)

    to support crafts, arts, and practical education in their local community

  • F21 - Organization - Silver Spring/Takoma Park Mutual Aid Group (MD)

    to procure food for low income families

  • S22 - Organization - Central App (WV)

    to support technology career development for individuals in low income situations

  • S22 - Organization - Feed The Family Pantry (DC)

    to provide fresh produce and cleaning supplies for over 120 families

  • F22 - Organization - Rocky Mountain Folk School (CO)

    to upgrade facilities and offerings to help inspire the next generation of rural and mountain artists

  • F22 - Organization - Morgan County Homeless Coalition (WV)

    to serve those who are facing shelter insecurity in the Morgan County region

  • S23 - Organization - The REED Center

    to support the REED Center’s commitment to habitat research, sustainability, education, and the construction of a deer fence

  • S23 - Organization - Rocky Mountain Folk School

    to upgrade facilities and offerings to help inspire the next generation of rural and mountain artists

  • F23 - Individual - Education Research Funding

    to help provide an education pathway for those whom do not wish to seek military-backed grants

  • F23 - Organization - Zenith Community Arts Foundation (DC)

    to inspire the next generation of carpenters in the Washington, DC, area with a ‘Mobile Woodshop’ program

  • F23 - Organization - Our Lady of the Road (IN)

    to fund homeless shelters and humane services for those experiencing hardship in the South Bend region

  • W23 - Family - The Peck Family (WV)

    to purchase materials for the construction of a new roof

  • S24 - Individual - Sponsoring Fellow Outreach Worker (IN)

    to fund 6 month’s of student loan payments for a long-time volunteer for South Bend’s Catholic Worker community

  • S24 - Organization - Prairie Winds Nature Farm (IN)

    to provide opportunities to low income and urban children to experience nature in structured and unstructured ways

  • S24 - Family - Home Renovations (NY)

    to help a rural, low-income, elderly woman and her family remove a tree leaning dangerously close to their home

  • S24 - Organization - The Age of Transitions Podcast

    to support those brave enough to take a non-partisan yet critical stance on technology, warfare, and postmodern philosophy

  • F24 - Organization - Sunflower Seeds Ukraine

    to support converting and distributing solar charging equipment for use by civilians affected by the war in Ukraine

  • F24 - Individual - Graceann Beckett (MA)

    to help with Graceann’s transition to graduate school in support of her community service, including rural advocacy and nonviolence activism

  • F24 - Organization - 88.3 KFFR Radio (CO)

    to support the expansion of a local nonprofit radio service providing alternative and constructive voices in a rural region

  • F24 - Organization - Bloomington Catholic Worker (IN)

    to support necessary renovations to their homeless resources center

  • F24 - Individual - Samuel Sseggirinya (MI)

    to support his nursing education and his efforts providing for his communities in both Michigan and the Kampala region

What Recipients Are Saying

  • Judith Ingram, Feed the Family Pantry (MD)

    “Your grant [will] allow us to offer as rich a selection of fresh fruits and vegetables to the 100 families we serve weekly during the farmers market season, and for that we are tremendously grateful.”

  • Sarah Banks, Tear Caps Workshops (ME)

    “This grant made such a big difference: we were able to move ahead on our new workshop project…renovating a building to turn it into our new luthier shop. Having underwriting support also made our ongoing programming so much easier. From the bottom of our hearts thank you for this tremendous opportunity.”

  • Barbara Ferris, On behalf of "Feed The Family Food Pantry"

    “Not only are we meeting a need to our neighbors in Ward 3, but the Capitol Area Food Bank has asked us to be a distribution center for the ward because we now have the highest rate of food insecruity in the city.

    Please know that your grant is greatly appreciated”

  • Morgan County Observation Foundation

    “This repair will enable us to continue our mission to improve and expand access to astronomy through education and viewing the skies.

    Thank you“

  • Zenith Community Arts Foundation

    “We appreciate your social responsibility and commitment to arts and vocational education for the community. You enable ZCAF to realize its mission of fostering collaboration amongst artists, business, and nonprofit groups and governments.“

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa