{"id":1063,"date":"2021-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/2021-modeina-community-fund-a-huge-success\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T00:18:00","slug":"2021-modeina-community-fund-a-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/2021-modeina-community-fund-a-huge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Modeina Community Fund a huge success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>$15,000 awarded by Modeina Community Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ten not-for-profit groups operating in the Melton area have shared in $15,000 of financial grants distributed through the 2021 Manor Lakes Community Fund.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The successful recipients were announced at a presentation evening on December 17, with each group awarded a grant of $1,500 to support their local community project.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Suzie Woolard of Burnside Kindergarten, one of the worthy grant recipients, says they will use the funds to continue developing the kindergarten\u2019s outdoor areas.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been so fortunate to receive grants from the Modeina Community Fund for the last 5 years,\u201d Suzie shares.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been able to purchase items to enhance our outdoor space as well as start up a vegetable garden to use in our program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so grateful for the support and our local community really benefits from these grants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dennis Family Corporation, the developer of Modeina estate, has successfully operated Community Funds across its residential developments, both in Victoria and Queensland, since 2002 and distributed more than $850,000 in grants over that time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Community groups in the Melton area alone have received more than $62,000 since the annual Modeina Community Fund commenced in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Munro, Dennis Family Corporation Marketing Manager, who hosted the presentation event said: \u201cWe are proud to support the local communities in areas where we operate our business. We believe their efforts greatly contribute towards the liveability of our estates.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>An independent judging panel comprised of Melton City Councillor Steve Abboushi, who has generously supported previous Modeina Community Funds as a judge, and Maria Baliva, a local resident of Modeina, reviewed the applications to select the final list of recipients. To thank the judges, DFC donated $80 to a charity of each judge\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of the 2021 Modeina Community Fund grant recipients:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Westside Strikers Football Club<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Western (VIC) Tamil Seniors Club<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Victoria Tamil Association<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Rotary Caroline Springs<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Family Care Fellowship Incorporated<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Caroline Springs Scout Group<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Burnside Springs United Cricket Club<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Burnside Kindergarten<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Burnside Heights Football Club<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Brookside P-9 College<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>* Burnside Kindergarten Picture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$15,000 awarded by Modeina Community Fund Ten not-for-profit groups operating in the Melton area have shared in $15,000 of financial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}