Community Foundation Awards Sustainability Grant to the Gibraltar, Sevastopol, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay School Districts

The Door County Community Foundation has awarded Gibraltar, Sevastopol, Southern Door, and Sturgeon Bay School Districts a sustainability grant from the Ruth and Hartley Barker Memorial Fund, the Children and Youth Fund, and Arts Endowment Fund. This grant supports a visit from children’s book author, Lisa Wheeler.

Michigan author Lisa Wheeler will spend one day at each of the four Door County mainland school districts to give presentations to students in grades K-8. Wheeler has written over 35 picture books including the popular Dino series about dinosaurs playing various sports.

“In her school talks, Lisa Wheeler will share her research process with students and talk about how even fiction stories need research,” said Marcia Smith, Chair of the Door County Community Foundation. “Getting these children excited about the writing process at a young age sets them up to enjoy reading and writing for a lifetime. We are pleased to contribute to that fundamental joy.”

The Door County Community Foundation’s Sustainability Grants program distributes grant dollars from funds such as the Arts Fund, Children & Youth Fund, Green Fund, Health & Human Needs Fund, Education Fund, Historic Preservation Fund, Healthy Water Fund, and Women’s Fund.
The Door County Community Foundation’s Sustainability Grants program distributes grant dollars from funds such as the Arts Fund, Children & Youth Fund, Green Fund, Health & Human Needs Fund, Education Fund, Historic Preservation Fund, Healthy Water Fund, and Women’s Fund.

For more information about the Community Foundation’s services and various grant programs, please visit http://www.GiveDoorCounty.org.

The Door County Community Foundation, Inc. is a collection of separate charitable funds set up by individuals, families, non-profit organizations, private foundations and businesses that are managed, invested and disbursed for the current and future good of Door County. The Community Foundation was launched in 1999, currently administers more than $22 million in assets, and distributes nearly $2 million to charities in Door County every year.