Upcoming Events

March 11, 2010

Power Lunch -- It Takes Resources to Help a Child Succeed

March 24, 2010

LGAA 5K Run -- NEW DATE 3/24/10

News

Reaching Out

UF study finds nutritional needs not met in food packages for needy

Chamber Graduates Leadership Class XXXV

How We Give

Grants

Grant Information

  • Grants will be funded as long as LGAA’s financial assets exceed $9000.00.
  • Recipient must be a qualified 501c3 organization or be approved by a vote of the board.
  • Financial Aid will consist of two kinds:
    1. outright grant of up to $250.00 per project
    2. seed capital with a contract to return LGAA’s investment in project, up to $2500.00 for a Community Service Project.
  • Consideration is given to grants that concern a benefit to children but is not a requirement.
  • Grant application must be submitted to LGAA.
  • Active participation of LGAA Board Member in project is required.
  • Promotion of LGAA as project sponsor is key consideration.

Grant Request Form

$250 Outright Grant

One of the goals of LGAA is to encourage active leadership with a goal of influencing positive changes in the Alachua County/Gainesville Community. LGAA can help support this goal by awarding grants to groups who can help further our mission. Some recipients of this award have been:

2005

  • North Central Florida American Red Cross 2005 – $250
  • Big Brothers/Big Sisters 2005 – $250

2006

  • North Central Florida American Red Cross 2006 – $250
  • Big Brothers/Big Sisters Magical Moments 2006 – $250
  • GHS Girls Volleyball 2006 – $100
  • UF Master of Science Dietetic Internship Program – $175

2007

  • UF Master of Science Dietetic Internship Program – $175
  • Junior Achievement – $250
  • Caring and Sharing Learning School – $250

2008

  • Junior Achievement – $250
  • Caring and Sharing Learning School – $250
  • Congressional Youth Leadership’s Shanchen “Flora” Huang – $250

2009

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters – $250
  • UF Mast of Science Dietetic Internship Program – $250
  • Oak Hall School Biodiesel Project – $250

The Leadership Challenge Grant

Inspired by a grant from the Gainesville Community Foundation, the leadership of LGAA approved a $2500 yearly challenge grant to the current Leadership Gainesville class. The grant is an incentive for the new LG graduates to take what they have learned through the LG program along with the grant dollars and apply it to a service, community or leadership project. Recipients of this grant have been:

  • LG 32 2006 $2000 in conjunction with Gainesville Community Foundation

Scholarships

Jeffrey Mattison Wershow Scholarship

July 6, 2003, Army Spc. Jeffrey M. Wershow, 22, an aspiring politician from Gainesville, Fla., was gunned down on the campus of Baghdad University. Army Spc. Jeffrey Wershow never let his guard down. His buddies nicknamed him “The General” because he strode about with a sense of purpose and confidence. His parents Jon Wershow and Ann Marie Mattison are graduates and supporters of Leadership Gainesville.

  • 2006
    • 3 scholarships awarded to LG33

News About our Grant Recipients

Gail Kauwell’s University of Florida masters students used a $250 grant from LGAA to pay for boxes in which they collected food that met the daily minimum nutritional need of the people who depend on Catholic charities for food donations. The Gainesville Sun ran a front page article about the success of the program and that it is going to be adopted state wide by Catholic Charities.