The Orange Lions Club will provide a limited number of mini grants to eligible community organizations and/or individuals in 2021. The program, now running for 17 yeas, is intended to provide funds to worthy causes and activities in Orange that might not otherwise be funded, according to Orange Lions Club President Mike Muttitt.
“While our Lions Club continues to provide funds to Lions blindness prevention programs, aid for the blind and eye research, which are long-time Lions Club priorities, we feel strongly that it is important to allocate funds to local projects as well,” Muttitt said, emphasizing that this funding is in addition to a college scholarship which the Orange Lions Club will be awarding to Amity High School graduates, as it has for over 50 years.
Nicholas Musante of Milford has been appointed to chair the community mini grants program this year. Blank applications for the program are now available at the High Plains Community Center in the Community Services Department, at the Peoples United Bank branch on Orange Center Road, at the Case Memorial Library and from any Orange Lion.
Completed applications must be submitted to the Orange Lions Club no later than Thursday, Jan. 31. All Orange nonprofit clubs and related nonprofit organizations, individual Orange residents and Orange government entities are eligible to apply. The recipients will be announced in late February after the selection committee completes its review of all timely applications.