The Leelanau Township Community Foundation (LTCF) Board of Trustees has approved grants to five organizations in Leelanau County.
These include:
• Northport Performing Arts Center (NPAC), recipient of a $9,016 grant from the General Endowment Fund to cover funding for their 2025 performance season.
• Leelanau Montessori Public School Academy & Leelanau Montessori Forever Foundation, recipient of a $600 grant from the General Endowment Fund to provide swimming lessons for 10 Leelanau Township 6–9-yearolds.
• The Watershed Grand Traverse Bay, recipient of a $2,200 grant from the General Endowment Fund to install educational signs in the Village of Northport at the two recent project sites where rain gardens were installed to treat stormwater runoff.
• Leelanau Township, recipient of a $6,000 grant from the Woolsey Memorial Airport Terminal Fund to hire a researcher and grant writer to assist Leelanau Township to find and apply for funding opportunities to repair and restore Woolsey Airport.
• Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, recipient of a $3,000 grant from the General Endowment Fund to support purchasing a CFX Opus 96 Real Time PCR System and essential water quality monitoring supplies.
Upcoming grant application due dates for 2025 are May 1, July 1, September 1 and November 1.
Also, a reminder that completed scholarship applications for Leelanau County high school seniors are due today. Applications can be found at www. leelanaufoundation. org/ scholarship-application.
Information on how to apply for a grant is available on the LTCF website at www. LeelanauFoundation. org/ Apply-For-a-Grant. For more information, contact Executive Director Beth Stowe at 231-3869000 or email [email protected]. The office is located at 301 Mill Street, Northport.
