Matching Funds Leverage Vista Grant

If you are thinking about an end-of-year or future gift to Friends, consider making a donation to help with our matching fund commitment that will help leverage the grant for work at Vista.

When we submitted the grant proposal, Friends agreed that if the Division of Historical Resources provided $60,000, we would match it with $15,000. So far, we have $11,600 toward that $15,000 match. Most of it is from the sale of the boat contributed by Richey Smith, husband of Sandra Roe Smith, one of the sisters who donated the Vista property.

By way of update, the November News Brief mentioned that the grant had met a bump in the road. Because of the recent hurricanes in our state, architects and contractors are harder to hire and more costly than our proposal projected when we submitted it in summer 2021. With Refuge Manager Andrew Gude, Friends continues working on ways to move ahead in the new fiscal reality.