The PACF is actively partnering with its donors and other area funders to address the critical needs of local citizens impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing funding to a wide variety of area nonprofits that are delivering essential services in the region.

To date, the PACF has awarded more than $390,000 in COVID-19 emergency funds to help area agencies continue their critical work.

• Actors Guild of Parkersburg - $5,000 in operating support to address revenue loss from canceled performances.
• Bi-County Nutrition Program - $2,500 to meet increased demand for home meal delivery services for seniors in Doddridge County.
• Boys and Girls Club of Parkersburg - $11,750 for operating support to address revenue loss and to assist with re-opening of summer programs for children and youth.*
• Boys and Girls Club of Parkersburg: $5,000 for direct food assistance, in partnership with Piggly Wiggly, to club member families impacted by COVID-19.
• Calhoun County Committee on Aging - $5,821 to help purchase a vehicle to meet increased demand for home meal delivery. *
• Calhoun County Committee on Aging - $14,500 to support increased demand for senior nutrition program and home meal delivery. *
• Calhoun County Family Resource Network - $2,770 to purchase shelving for food pantry. *
• Calhoun County Family Resource Network - $5,000 to purchase diapers, baby formula, and cleaning supplies to help individuals and families impacted by COVID-19.*
• Calhoun County Schools: $3,000 to purchase hygiene and school supplies to distribute to families in need. *
• Calvary United Methodist Church - $1,000 to purchase food to stock their food pantry, awarded in partnership with Star Plastics.
• Camden Clark Medical Center - $5,000 to help purchase a Xenex Ultra-Violet disinfection system.
• Children's Home Society of Parkersburg - $7,500 of operating support to address increased demand for services and loss of fundraising revenue for their programs that address child welfare (foster care, adoption and emergency shelter services). *
• Children's Home Society of Parkersburg: $4,620 to supply food boxes for youth in their Transitional Living Program who lack access to food due to COVID-19. *
• Choices Child Care Resources and Referral Agency - $2,000 to purchase personal protection equipment for childcare providers in Wood, Gilmer, Pleasants, Ritchie, and Wirt counties
• Circles Campaign of the Mid-Ohio Valley - $4,000 to help Circles participants address financial hardships and meet basic needs (e.g. food, housing, utilities). *
• Circles Campaign of the Mid-Ohio Valley. - $5,000 for operating support to address fundraising event revenue loss and to ensure the continuation of programs designed to help families transition out of poverty and $700 to provide food assistance to families in need. *
• Colonial House - $1,000 to purchase tablets to enable seniors to access information and communicate with families and to purchase art therapy supplies.
• Community Resources - $1,300 for support for the Doddridge County food pantry.
• Community Resources - $40,300 to support the collaborative Individual Emergency Aid Program to provide rent and mortgage assistance to individuals impacted by COVID-19.
• Community Resources, Inc. - $2,000 to support food pantries in Doddridge and Roane counties.
• Community Resources, Inc. (CRI) - $2,500 to enable families to double their SNAP dollars to purchase produce at CRI’s farmers market.
• Community Resources: $5,000 to buy food and provide operating support for their Thrive food pantry to meet significantly increased demand.
• Consumer Credit Counseling Services of the MOV - $1,000 to support start-up costs for the collaborative Individual Emergency Aid Program to provide rent and mortgage assistance to individuals impacted by COVID-19.
• Doddridge County Family Resource Network - $250 for the purchase of cleaning products to distribute to Doddridge County residents in need.
• Doddridge County Health Department - $3,500 to purchase personal protective equipment.
• Downtown PKB - $5,000 in operating support to address revenue loss from cancellation of events and fundraisers and to ensure continuation of programming.
• Epworth United Methodist Church - $700 to support its food pantry, awarded in partnership with Star Plastics.
• EVE, Inc. - $4,000 in operating support to address revenue loss from canceled fundraisers and ensure continuation of programming for victims of domestic violence.*
• Friendship Kitchen: $4,000 to purchase food to meet greatly increased demand for their meal program. *
• Gilmer County Family Resource Network - $1,000 in operating support to address revenue loss from thrift store.
• Gilmer County Historical Society - $1,000 in operating support.
• Gilmer Public Library - $900 to purchase solar charging stations to place outside of library to assist those accessing internet for remote learning.
• Habitat for Humanity of the Mid-Ohio Valley - $7,500 of operating support to continue its work of providing safe housing and address revenue loss due to temporary closure of its ReStore. *
• Habitat for Humanity of the Mid-Ohio Valley - $1,156 to secure handwashing stations to assist with safely reopening home construction sites.
• House to Home (Parkersburg Area Coalition for the Homeless) - $600 to purchase of food and supplies to provide meals to individuals experiencing homelessness.
• Little Kanawha Resource Conservation and Development – $4,000 to support the Project Sharing program. *
• Living Heritage Museum/New Era One Room School - $340 to address revenue loss and assist with facility heating costs.
• Mason Community Action Group - $1,500 to provide emergency food boxes for seniors.
• Memorial Health Foundation - $10,000 to purchase tents for vaccination clinics.*
• Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home - $10,000 to support increased operating costs and address revenue loss to ensure that residents can remain safe and in recovery.
• Mountaineer Foodbank: $6,000 to support food purchases and operations at the food bank that serves feeding programs in all PACF service counties.
• No Hunger Food Pantry - $1,700 for food pantry support awarded in partnership with the Star Plastics.
• No Hunger Food Pantry - $1,000 for food purchases (through support from the SDR and Ritchie Family Charitable Fund).
• Normantown Historical Community Center - $4,100 to help stock food pantry and supplies to make masks for schools and community organizations.
• O’Neill Senior Center - $2,000 to support the Senior Restaurant Meal Program.*
• Old Man Rivers: $10,000 to buy food to meet increased demand for home meal delivery and food pantry services. *
• Parkersburg Catholic Schools - $1,750 to purchase electrostatic sprayers to disinfect schools.
• Parkersburg Urban Ministries: $5,000 to purchase food and hygiene products to supply this pantry to meet increased demand, awarded in partnership with the SHF.
• Parkersburg YMCA - $2,500 for technology needs related to childcare services for school-aged children due to school closures and virtual learning.
• Patch 21 - $2,500 to provide childcare services for the children of essential workers in Roane County.
• PATCH 21 - $3,000 to install internet server and access points throughout Roane County to enable area students and teachers to access the internet for online learning needs.
• Racine United Methodist Church - $200 to aid its food pantry, awarded in partnership with Star Plastics.
• Recovery Point - $4,200 to assist with increased costs of hygiene products and cleaning services due to COVID-19. *
• Ritchie and Doddridge County Healthy Grandfamilies Program - $3,000 to provide tutoring assistance to children being raised by grandparents to support educational needs and to help navigate virtual learning.
• Roane County Committee on Aging - $5,420 for operating support for the organization’s Amma and Reedy satellite sites.*
• Rural Action - $2,500 to support social enterprises and local businesses as they re-start and/or adapt to safe operations due to COVID-19 impact.
• Salvation Army of Washington County - $200 to its food pantry, awarded in partnership with Star Plastics.
• SW Resources - $7,500 of operating support to continue vocational rehabilitation and employment services to individuals with disabilities, meet increased demand for cleaning services, and address revenue loss. *
• SW Resources: $7,500 to help clients who are facing financial hardships to meet their basic needs (including rent and utility assistance). *
• The Council of Senior Citizens of Gilmer County, Inc. - $7,500 in operating support to address increased demand for home meal deliveries and loss of revenue from canceled fundraising events.
• The Gathering Church: $2,000 to secure food for home food box deliveries to individuals impacted by COVID-19.
• The Salvation Army of Parkersburg - $5,000 of operating support to address basic needs (food and shelter), provide emergency aid and address revenue loss from the temporary closing of the Family Store. *
• Voices of Children - CASA - $4,000 of operating support to address increased demand for services for children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect. *
• Washington United Methodist Church - $500 to purchase a freezer for new pantry to increase food access during the pandemic.
• West Virginia Nonprofit Association - $1,000 to support memberships for nonprofit organizations from the PACF service area who are facing financial hardship due to COVID-19.
• Westbrook - $10,000 to purchase of Naloxone to be distributed to regional Quick Response Teams and via Westbrook's Peer Expansion Program to address the increase in overdoses during the COVID 19 pandemic. *
• Westbrook - $5,000 for deep cleaning and sanitation of facilities. *
• Williamstown Welfare League - $2,200 to stock its food pantry
• Wirt County Committee on Aging & Family Services - $2,500 in operating support for senior nutrition programs. *
• Wirt County Ministerial Alliance - $7,250 to help stock the Hope Shop Food Pantry.
• Wood County Senior Citizens Association - $6,500 to purchase shelving and supplies for the Household Goods Pantry to meet the needs of seniors for hygiene and cleaning products.*
• Wood County Society - $7,500 in operating support to address loss of revenue and support the reopening of services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. *

* Awarded with support from the Sisters Health Foundation.

The PACF also issued special challenges to several organizations that participated in its Give Local MOV campaign. A $1,000 1:1 matching “Hunger Challenge” was offered to the Salvation Army, Old Man Rivers, and Wood County Senior Citizens Association, and a “Health Challenge” was offered to Minnie Hamilton Health Services and Westbrook. These organizations were challenged to raise an additional $1,000 through Give Local; those who met the challenge received the $1,000 match. All organizations met the challenge!

In addition to the grants listed above, an additional $41,272 was awarded through PACF’s Donor Advised Funds to support a variety of projects including the provision of books to children in the area to promote reading.