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Frank Kriston can see the future from the front porch of his 98-year-old Norfolk home. He is staring at a vacant lot at the moment, but Kriston knows


that by summer contractors will be hustling to build a 33,000-square-foot YMCA. It is the only new amenity built in his Park Place neighborhood in decades.


S P R I N G 2 012 Recent Grants


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Building Excellence grants were awarded to four Hampton Roads nonprofits for 18 months of consulting services with The Curtis Group to help them improve fundraising efforts. Recipients are Eggleston Services, Judeo-Christian Outreach Center, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia


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Business Consortium for Arts Support, $400,000 to help provide operating support to 33 arts and cultural groups that regularly perform or exhibit in


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Chesapeake Humane Society, $60,000 from the Alfred L. Nicholson Fund to help acquire a new building to double the size of


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Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center, $30,000 from the Argyle Fund to renovate the 1910 African-American Almshouse to use as gallery and education


Frank Kriston (left), Terez Patterson and Walter Combre look forward to a new YMCA in their Norfolk neighborhood.


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riston, a caretaker for a man with disabilities, expects the new $7.8 million YMCA Family Center


on Granby to be much more than a gym and outdoor swimming pool. He plans on working out at the Y, but he mostly loves “the idea that something brand new is coming to Park Place that will rejuvenate the whole neighborhood. The Y will be a safe haven for kids, but it will


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also translate into business growth and an increased interest in living in Park Place.” The Park Place Historic District dates to 1884. With a central location and a large stock of gracious two-story houses, it is home to nearly 5,000 people – many of them with lower incomes living in houses not as well-maintained as Kriston’s beautifully restored residence. Kriston and See Park Place on page 3 –>


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Eastern Virginia Medical School, $25,700 from Benjamin R. and Charles G. Brown funds for research into Autism Spectrum Disorders and Post-traumatic


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Friends of the Fred Heutte Foundation, $3,000 from the Julian Haden Gary and Margaret Savage Gary Fund to support the Urban Gardener Lecture Series and replenish plants in the Norfolk center’s


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