The Miles River Yacht Club Foundation (MRYC) has made grants totaling $31,005 in its Spring 2015 grants cycle to seven area non-profit organizations that offer swimming, sailing, canoeing, kayaking and other maritime educational programs in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The MRYC Foundation has now contributed $189,699 to 23 non-profit organizations in its first four years of grant-making.
Del-Mar-Va Council of the Boy Scouts of America’s Rodney Scout Reservation in North East was awarded funds to purchase a Hobie Cat sailboat and Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB) of Annapolis to buy equipment for their sailboat fleet; Phillips Wharf Environmental Center of Tilghman Island received support to hire staff, and the Dorchester County YMCA of Cambridge, Annapolis Community Boating of Annapolis and MRYC Junior Sail Program of St. Michaels received scholarship support for at risk students.
The MRYC Foundation plans to teach 500 non-swimming children to swim this summer through its signature SOS: Sink or Swim Program. Photo by Tim Bauer
In addition, the MRYC Foundation is providing full scholarship and staff support for its signature “SOS: Sink or Swim” program, a five year effort to teach every Talbot County non-swimming child how to swim. Last summer 275 children learned to swim under the program. This year’s goal, working with the St. Michaels Community Center in partnership with the Critchlow Atkins Children’s Center, is to turn 500 non-swimming children into swimmers at the Bay Hundred Community Pool in St. Michaels and the Moton Pool in Easton.
