Grants benefit 12 nonprofits in Hampton Roads

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded a $500,000 five-year grant to the Slover Library Foundation for the Col. Samuel L. Slover Memorial Main Library, slated to open in 2014.

The Community Foundation will provide technology grants at the library through The Virginian-Pilot Fund, a permanent $2 million fund started in 2010.

The Slover Library Foundation was among 12 regional nonprofits awarded nearly $1.8 million during the final grant session for 2011. The other grant recipients were:

- Business Consortium for Arts Support - $400,000 for operating support to 33 arts and cultural groups

- Old Dominion University Foundation - $400,000, paid over five years, for a math education program for public middle-school students

- WHRO - $150,000 for additional radio stations

- Norfolk SPCA - $100,000 for X-ray and other equipment

- Virginia Beach SPCA - $100,000 to turn a trailer into an education center and for veterinary and computer equipment

- Chesapeake Humane Society - $60,000 for a new building

- Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center - $30,000 to renovate the 1910 Almshouse in Machipongo to use as a gallery and education space

- Eastern Virginia Medical School - $25,700 for research into autism spectrum disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder treatments

- Norfolk Botanical Garden - $15,000 for the summer horticulture exhibit, Voyage of Discovery

- Virginia Zoological Society - $8,600 to develop a horticultural education area

- Friends of the Fred Heutte Foundation - $3,000 to support the Urban Gardener Lecture Series and replenish plants