POUGHKEEPSIE – Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has announced the latest round of grant awards, totaling $232,381, as part of the County’s Learn, Play, Create: Supporting Our Kids grant program to fund 10 projects to local non-profit organizations that directly benefit children and families.
The initiative is part of the “Dutchess Invests,” Molinaro’s plan to direct $57 million in one-time funding allocated to Dutchess County through the Federal Government’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) to areas the community has recognized as priorities. The program provides $3 million in one-time grants to local non-profit youth organizations in the categories of expanded learning – arts, libraries, and athletics – that were deprived of a year of fundraising or participation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Molinaro said, “Our children have missed out on so much over the last 20…
