Last Round Of Crisis Funding Announced

Evansville IN

12 September, 2021

9:58 AM

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By Steve Burger, WNIN Sept. 12, 2021 The COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund of the Greater Evansville Region announced its final round of grants Thursday. After giving out more than $5.5 million to support area non-profit agencies dealing with the pandemic, the response fund is shutting down its regular disbursement process. The $1 million remaining in the fund will be awarded through a one-time request for proposals. Those award winners will be announced later this month. Among the grantees in round twenty are Catholic Charities, which received $37,000 to increase the hours of a part-time counselor working with people without insurance. Several of the grants awarded are for agencies addressing mental health needs in the community. Forefront Community Therapy was awarded $30,000 to hire a bilingual staff member to assist with translating for patients getting physical and occupational therapy. Two more COVID 19-related deaths are reported in southwest Indiana, along with hundreds of new infections. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, a tool created by a University of Evansville ChangeLab class has been logging and archiving daily county by county data for a seven state area of the Midwest The latest COVID hospitalization numbers show a slight decrease at Deaconess in Evansville, while patients continue to increase in the Owensboro Health system. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.