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CACF AWARDS LARGEST GRANT EVER.

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CACF AWARDS LARGEST GRANT EVER.

The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation has made the largest grant in its fifty-four-year history—$4.25 million to Piedmont Housing Alliance to purchase the former Red Carpet Inn on Premier Circle, off Route 29, in Albemarle County.
A free online public event, April 15 from 12 to 1 p.m., will provide more information on the project and how community members can help. Register here. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hukKM-6SS9yT-GNY8YW0qg
Eboni Bugg, the Foundation’s director of programs, spoke with WINA’s Dori Zook about the grant.

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