FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 21, 2022

Contact: Pamela Farrar, Executive Director

pam@edwardsvillecommunityfoundation.org

(855) 464-3223

Edwardsville Community Foundation Awards Relief Grants


The Edwardsville Community Foundation recently awarded nearly $1.7 million in relief grants to individuals, businesses, and municipalities in Madison County after the deadly tornado in December 2021. These relief grants represent an unprecedented amount dispersed by ECF in the foundation’s 25 years of existence.


The following relief grants have been made in accordance with the ECF Relief Fund Criteria and Priorities related to the December 10, 2021 event:


• $498,867 to municipal police & fire departments for digital communication radios

• $187,049 to municipalities for emergency equipment and vehicles

These Madison County municipalities include Alhambra, Collinsville, Cottage Hills, East

Alton, Edwardsville, Edwardsville Township, Godfrey, Granite City, Hamel, Madison

County Emergency Management, Marine, New Douglas, Olive, Roxana, SIUE, South

Roxana and Worden.

• $210,961 for individuals and businesses directly impacted by the storm

• $100,000 to SIU-Edwardsville for lasting scholarships in disaster-preparedness

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• $500,000 endowment for relief related to future disasters


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