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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 …
Pine Mountain Community Playground
The Pine Mountain Community Center Playground has been a dream of our organization for several years. We are so excited to finally be able to provide a place for the children of our community to enjoy playing while creating memories for their whole fam …
Summer STREAM-ing
Summer STREAM-ing is a project of the Blount County Education Foundation, providing great summer learning opportunities for students from all areas of Blount County. The camps served over 1,000 students this year, and and grant from Cawaco makes suppli …
Project Lifesaver- Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama
The primary mission of Project Lifesaver is to provide timely response to save lives and reduce potential injury for adults and children with the propensity to wander due to a cognitive condition. With this grant ACA has purchased 30 transmitter kits a …
Garden Shed built by Students
Construction Technology Students at Shelby County Career Technical Education Center built a Garden Shed and Recycling Center! The 8 ft. by 12 ft. structure was built from a set of Construction Drawings designed by New Yankee Workshop. The project was a …
Center for Critical Needs
A Cawaco grant helped the 4ALL Foundation support critical life needs for 45 families throughout the Cawaco service area. The Center for Critical Needs offers help to people with critical needs that cannot be met by an existing program or service. Refe …
