(KAIR)--Over twenty non profit organizations in the Atchison area have benefited from grants given out by the Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust. The Atchison Advisory Committee, which processes requests from the community to present to the trust, announced the Trustee's decision to give out awards totaling $200,000.
The largest grant of $25,00 was awarded to the Atchison area YMCA, followed by a gift of $21,000 to the Atchison Area Chamber of Commerce and $15,000 to the Boy Scouts of America Pony Express Council.
The Turner Trust has given away more than $12 million to Atchison since 1987, for a wide range of charitable, cultural, educational, historic, and youth-related projects.
Funding will be made available to these organizations as soon as possible after March 1st.
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