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Volume 59, Number 5 • January 31, 2013
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Michael Farley, left, CEO of Elk Hill; stands with other grant recipients and Capital One executives. To his left are: Lee Householder, CEO of project:HOMES, Katherine Busser, Executive Vice President and Chief Operational Risk Management Officer at Capital One and David Wright, Senior Vice President in Card IT at Capital One. In the back row are, from left, Karl Werwath, Managing Vice President of Bank Operations at Capital One, Tim Joyce, President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Richmond; Barry Taylor, retired President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Richmond and Damon Jiggetts, Executive Director of Peter Paul Development Center.
Elk Hill awarded $150,000 grant from Capital One Photo by Ken Odor
Grant is part of company’s Investing for Good Program By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
“I call it corporate kindness,” said Elk Hill Executive Director Michael Farley last week, after his school received a $150,000 grant from Capital One at a ceremony at the Hippodrome in Richmond. Elk Hill was one of four recipients, all non-profits, at the
Thursday evening ceremony. Other recipients were the Peter Paul Development Center, project: HOMES and the YMCA of Greater Richmond. “We’ve had a very nice partnership with Capital One over the last 10 years,” said Farley, who said Elk Hill would use the money for a renovated swimming pool and shade pavilion, as well as more scholarships for students. Founded 42 years ago, Elk Hill provides group homes for boys, schools, summer camps and other services for troubled students. The Investing for Good Award spotlights the best direct service models that are serving people
in need and building strong neighborhoods in the Greater Richmond region. The Award will provide two years of grant funds and intensive volunteer support to build the capacity of area nonprofits to serve the needs of low to moderate income communities. The grant provides $100,000 in the first year and $50,000 in the second year, pending the results achieved in year one. Katherine Busser, Executive Vice President and Chief Operational Risk Management Officer at Capital One, called Elk Hill “a marvelous organization. see Elk Hill> 7
Ellery Team, 7, a first-grader at Hunter Country Day School, displays her winning entry in the Gazette’s Make a Newspaper contest. The contest asked the entrants to write a story, headline and draw a picture to illustrate it. Ellery wrote about her dog, a Border Collie named Jagger. “When my brother and I play outside Jagger moves with us,” wrote Ellery, whose wining story was “Local Border Collie moves like Jagger.” Her mom Amanda, said Ellery and her brother Gavin, 5, thought the song “Moves Like Jagger” by Maroon 5 was written about their dog when they first heard it over a year ago. “This is a song about our dog Jagger,” Amanda recalled them saying when they first heard the song on the radio. Ellery said she knows her dog has the same name as Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. Ellery won a one year subscription to the Goochland Gazette along with a gift certificate to Target stores, crayons and mechanical pencils for future writing projects. Congratulations, Ellery!