The Strowd Roses Foundation is now accepting applications for grants to be distributed in the first quarter of 2010. The deadline for submitting requests is Jan. 31. Guidelines and application forms are available at strowdroses.org.
The foundation awarded grants to 14 local organizations for the last quarter of 2009, bringing more than $470,000 the total distributed for the year. Recipients of the latest grants were the choral group Cantari, Carolina Campus Community Garden, Chapel Hill Garden Club, Child Care Service Association, Christmas House, Franklin Street Arts Collective, Hill Center, Orange County Department of Human Rights & Relations (for its community dinner), Orange County Cooperative Extension, Saludamos, Schoolhouse of Wonder, UNC Department of Psychiatry, Voices Together and Volunteers for Youth.