Foundation awards $196,588 to local nonprofits

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Community Foundation of the Lowcountry

The Community Foundation of the Lowcountry has awarded grants totaling $196,588 from its Hilton Head Island Foundation Endowment Fund to local nonprofit organizations.

The grants are as follows:

• $38,438 to Bluffton Community Center Foundation to enable the Bluffton Farmers Market to be open each Thursday afternoon from May through October on the park property beside The Bluffton Oyster Co.

• $20,000 to Bluffton Self Help for a Senior/Disabled Mobile Home Rehab Project, which helps seniors living in deteriorated mobile homes in greater Bluffton.

• $25,000 as a matching grant to the Daufuskie Island Community Leadership Council for the renovation of the Mary Field School Building for use as a community meeting place. The Mary Field School was built in 1933 and opened that year with 108 students. Novelist Pat Conroy taught at the school in 1960 and his experiences became the book, "The Water is Wide."

• $15,000 to the Daufuskie Island Historical Foundation for the restoration of the Jane Hamilton School and its use as a museum and learning center. The school was built in 1940 to educate the native children on the north end of Daufuskie Island who were unable to walk to the Mary Field School on the south end of the island.

• $53,000 to the Neighborhood Outreach Connection, formerly the Latin American Council, for a neighborhood outreach connection project. The project will support social and economic progress in neighborhoods in the Hilton Head Island and greater Bluffton areas that have a high poverty rate.

• $22,250 to May River Montessori School to purchase classroom materials.

• $22,900 to the Pregnancy Center & Clinic for upgraded ultrasound equipment and an on-site training program.