Program interests include: disadvantaged youth, needs of the disabled, protection of the environment, and the arts and humanities. For complete grants guidelines click here.
The Bama Works Fund has contributed more than $4 million to charities since its inception. The following is a selected list of grants made from the fund to Charlottesville area charities:
Abundant Life Ministries
AIDS/HIV Support Services
Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, VA
Albemarle County Schools, Charlottesville, VA
Albemarle County Parks and Recreation Dept. Charlottesville, VA
Albemarle Housing Improvement
Alliance for Interfaith Ministries, Charlottesville, VA
Alpha Journeymen Project
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Charlottesville, VA
Alzheimer's Association (Central Virginia)
The Arc of the Piedmont
Arts Center in Orange, Orange, VA
Barrett Day Care Center
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, Charlottesville, VA
Blue Ridge House (Region Ten)
Blue Ridge Irish Music School
Blue Ridge Medical Center
Boys and Girls Club of America
Boys and Girls Club, Charlottesville, VA
Bridge Ministry
Building Goodness Foundation, Charlottesville, VA
Camp Holiday Trails
Charlottesville Albemarle Youth Club, Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville Area Dental Access, Inc., Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville Area Riding Therapy, Crozet, VA
Charlottesville Area Youth Football League
Charlottesville Cardinals, Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville City Schools, Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville Community Scholarship Program
Charlottesville Fathering Initiative, Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville Free Clinic
Charlottesville Municipal Band
Charlottesville Police Officers Assoc.
Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents, Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad
Charlottesville-Albemarle S.P.C.A., Charlottesville, VA
Children, Youth, and Family Services
City of Charlottesville
Bike Program
Skateboard Park
Washington Park
City of Richmond
Basketball Courts at Lucks Field Playground
Tot Lot at Bill Robinson Playground
Clean Virginia Waterways
Community Mediation Center, Charlottesville, VA
Computers4Kids
County of Albemarle
Simpson Park
Covenant School, Charlottesville, VA
Covesville Child Development Center, Covesville, VA
Crossroads Waldorf School
Dogwood Festival, Charlottesville, VA
Downtown Music Lab – Roanoke
Edgar & Eleanor Shannon Foundation, Earlysville, VA
Emmaus With Child
Environmental Education Center, Charlottesville, VA
Eta Phi Omega Chapter-Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Charlottesville, VA
Fluvanna Co Schools, Fluvanna, VA
Focus Women’s Resource Center
Four County Players, Barboursville, VA
Gallastar Equine Center, Inc., Afton, VA
Grace Works
Greene Co. Schools, Greene, VA
Growing Youth Ministries
Habitat for Humanity
Hinton Avenue United Methodist Church, Charlottesville, VA
Hospice of the Piedmont
Independence Resource Center
Innisfree Village, Crozet, VA
International Rescue Committee, Inc., Charlottesville, VA
Ivy Community Assoc., Inc., Charlottesville, VA
Ivy Creek School - Serendipity Project, Charlottesville, VA
JABA (Jefferson Area Board for Aging)
Junior Achievement of Central VA
The Learning Center, Charlottesville, VA
Legal Aid Justice Center
Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia, Inc., Charlottesville, VA
The Library of Virginia
Light House Studio, Inc., Charlottesville, VA
Live Arts
Literacy Volunteers of America, Charlottesville, VA
Little Red Cap Project, Charlottesville, VA
Living Stones Motorcycle Club, Charlottesville, VA
MACAA
Hope House
Young Guys of Distinction
Meals on Wheels
Mental Health Association of Charlottesville-Albemarle
Molly Michie Preschool, Charlottesville, VA
Municipal Band, Charlottesville, VA
Music Resource Center
National Council on Agricultural Life
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Charlottesville, VA
Nelson Co. Community Development Foundation, Nellysford, VA
Nelson Co. Humane Society/SPCA, Nellysford, VA
Offender Aid & Restoration of Charlottesville
Orange Co. Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation, Orange, VA
Pantops Clinic, Inc. , Charlottesville, VA
Paramount Theater
People and Congregations Engaged In Ministry, Charlottesville, VA
Piedmont CASA
Piedmont Environmental Council, Charlottesville, VA
Piedmont Family YMCA, Charlottesville, VA
Piedmont House, Inc.
Piedmont Housing Alliance, Charlottesville, VA
Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA
Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge, Charlottesville, VA
Quality Community Council, Inc., Charlottesville, VA
Quest Institute, Inc, Charlottesville, VA
Reading Window School, Louisa, Virginia
Rebuilding Together Amherst/Nelson, Inc.
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Region Ten, Charlottesville, VA
Renaissance School, Charlottesville, VA
Rivanna Conservation Society, Charlottesville, VA
Rivanna Film Group, Charlottesville, VA
Rockfish Valley Community Center
Ronald McDonald House, Charlottesville, VA
Salvation Army, Charlottesville, VA
Save the Fireworks, Charlottesville, VA
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Senior Center
Service Dogs of Virginia
Sexual Assault Resource Agency
Shannon Foundation for Excellence in Public Education
Shelter for Help in Emergency
Sorensen Institute
Southern Environmental Law Center
Spirit-Horses, Healing and Helping Kids, Charlottesville, VA
St. Mary Catholic Church/Nelson Co. Pantry, Lovingston, VA
Stony Point Volunteer Fire Company, Inc.
Teen Health Center, Charlottesville, VA
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Charlottesville, VA
Three Notch'd Productions, Charlottesville, VA
Town of Louisa-Arts Center, Louisa, VA
Tuesday Evening Concert Series, Charlottesville, VA
United Way, Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia
Art Museum
Children's Center
Engineering Foundation (ERICA)
Madison House
Sexual Assault Education Office
Virginia Film Festival
UVA "Day in the Life" Program, Charlottesville, VA
UVA Health Center, Charlottesville, VA, VA
UVA, Curry School of Education Foundation, Charlottesville, VA
UVA, Dept of Pediatrics, Charlottesville, VA
UVA, Dept. of Family Medicine, Charlottesville, VA
UVA, McIntire Dept of Music, Charlottesville, VA
UVA, Under Fives Study Center, Charlottesville, VA
VA Blood Services, Charlottesville, VA
VA Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA
VA Organizing Project, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Consort, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Discovery Museum
Virginia Institute of Autism
Virginia Neurocare, Inc. , Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Save Our Streams
Wednesday Music Club, Charlottesville, VA
Wesley Foundation at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Wintergreen Adaptive Skiing, Afton, VA
Worksource Enterprises, Charlottesville, VA
Youth Motorsports Academy, Charlottesville, VA
Youth Orchestra -Charlottesville-Albemarle, Charlottesville, VA