(Sibley)– 14 non-profit groups that serve Osceola county were awarded grants Thursday through the Community Foundation of Osceola County.
The grants range from two-thousand to 3,500-dollars.
Funding is through a program approved by the legislature that allows counties that don’t have casinos to be eligible to receive up to one-half of one percent of the state’s gross gambling receipts. Osceola county received more than 67-thousand dollars in the program this year. 75 percent of that was awarded to various charitable organizations for educational, civic and public projects. The remaining 25 percent goes into a county endowment fund to be invested, with earnings distributed over time.
The following groups were each awarded 3,500-dollars: Ashton Community Emergency Services; Tracy House Museum; Osceola County Historical Society; Sibley Prairie View Corridor Commission; Melvin Public Library; Northwest Iowa Family Life Council; Osceola County Positive Forward Group; Sibley-Ocheyedan School District; McCallum Museum; Osceola County Historical Society; Sibley Public Library; Save-The-Mini-Grotto in Harris; and Osceola Community Hospital.
Other grants include one for slightly more than three thousand dollars to the Melvin Area Economic Development Corporation; the Ocheyedan Public Library will receive 2,500-dollars; and two thousand dollars was awarded to the Sibley Pride and Involvement group.
