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Grace Klein Rescues and Delivers Food
A Cawaco grant enabled Grace Klein Community to purchase food and equip volunteers with the fuel to complete 2336 food rescue pick ups! Between October 1st and December 12th, 2022, Grace Klein Community volunteers rescued 393,598 pounds of food from lo …
Ultra Low Freezer for Birmingham Zoo
The ultralow freezer is used to store biological samples, including blood and tissue, from a variety of species at the Birmingham Zoo. Most samples are obtained while animals are under anesthesia and they cannot be easily replaced. Veterinary staff oft …
Fire Hose Replacement
The Parrish Volunteer Fire Department recently was able to purchase new hose for each of our trucks to replace worn out hose that was 15-25 years old. Ths new hose will help provide safer and more reliable water supply to fight fires in our community.
Public Safety Drone
The Walker County Sheriff’s Office recently purchased a drone! The drone, which is equipped with a FLIR thermal imaging camera, can be used to search for missing elderly persons and missing children; Assist in search and rescue operations that are diff …
Art Abilities
Art Abilities is a therapeutic art program offered by the Shelby County Arts Council and is a 9-week program offered to 20 schools throughout Shelby County. Funding was used for 16 sessions taught at Chelsea High School and Chelsea Park Elementary.
20th Street North Revitalization
With this grant, REV Birmingham purchase 31 trees, including Aeryn Trident Maple, Winter King Hawthorne, Urbanite Ash, Australis Bay Magnolia, Nuttall Oak, and Willow Oak. Trees were identified based on the full landscape plan created by the project la …
Full Plate
Full Plate is using a vacant lot in Fairfield to grow nutritious food for the community. Each week, volunteers bag and give away food to approximately 60 families. Cawaco helped them purchase a storage shed for their garden tools and equipment.
Litter Quitter Video Contest
Jefferson County Conservation Foundation was awarded a grant for support of an anti-litter, stormwater-protection video competition for public high schools in Jefferson County. Aimed at young drivers, the contest asks them to produce a short video to e …
Environmental Education
The Environmental Education Program at the University of Montevallo was awarded a grant from CAWACO to provide hands-on, experiential learning opportunities to the students of Montevallo City Schools. The grant funded field trips, classroom visits, and …
Banks Academy
Banks Academy is ensuring that students do not fall behind in reading and math skills through utilizing Edgenuity learning systems. This system assess and creates a custom learning plan to remediate and advance students skills to be at or above grade l …
