ACAF Spring 2025 Grants

Bruce Campbell • June 30, 2025

Grants Support Various Projects and Programs

(June 2025) The Allegany County Area Foundation’s May and June grants assisted the following organizations, projects, and programs.


Wellsville Volunteer Ambulance Corps – Support for purchase of a motorized swift water rescue boat (Carter – Windus Family Fund & Charles and Lorraine Joyce Family Fund)


Cuba-Rushford Elementary School – Purchase of two handicap accessible swings (Nyla Sloat Fund & Carter-Windus Family Fund)


Salvation Army Wellsville – Repair of sidewalk in front of the SA’s Pearl Street facility (Charles and Lorraine Joyce Family Fund)


David A. Howe Library – For Shake on the Lake performance, July 31 (Allegany Fund & Charles and Lorraine Joyce Family Fund)


Belfast Public Library – Summer Reading program (Carter-Windus Family Fund)

Genesee Library – Community Cooking Project (Joseph Bucher Fund)


Scio Memorial Library – for public awareness activities and materials (Carter-Windus Family Fund)


Wide Awake Club/Fillmore Library – Furniture for teen room update (Carter-Windus Family Fund)


Together for Youth – Summer to Remember program (Joseph Bucher Fund & Carter-Windus Family Fund)



Allegany County Agricultural Society/Allegany County Fair – Technology needed to improve cell service and enable electronic payments at county fairgrounds (Carter-Windus Family Fund)

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