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Meserve Fund Awards Grants

The Meserve Memorial Fund recently awarded 15 grants totaling $73,905 to

Danbury-area nonprofit organizations.

The fund was established in 1983, a legacy of the late Mr and Mrs Albert W.

Meserve, to support local charitable organizations in the region encompassed

by Newtown, Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, New Milford, Redding,

Ridgefield, Sherman and Bridgewater.

Among the recent grants were $5,000 to Regional Hospice to establish a lending

library program of audio and visual equipment and resources for terminally ill

patients; $9,170 to Literacy Volunteers of America, Danbury, to introduce

interactive computer-assisted instruction to LVA's one-to-one tutoring

program; $7,200 to DATAHR Rehabilitation Institute, Brookfield, to fund job

placement and rehabilitation manager software modules; $2,500 to the Fairfield

County Council, Boy Scouts of America, to expand the Learning for Life Program

in Danbury, and $4,000 to Good Friend to update training methods and materials

for volunteers.

The fund is administered by the Fairfield County Community Foundation in

Norwalk. The next deadline for applications is April 1, 1998. For more

information or a copy of the guidelines, contact the foundation office at

203/852-0815.