Rockingham County TDA Announces Grant Recipients -
Rockingham County TDA Announces 2009-2010 Grant Recipients
Wentworth, N.C.—In its June meeting, the Rockingham County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) approved a total of $39,085 in marketing grants to various organizations throughout the county for marketing events in 2009 and 2010.
The grants are part of the TDA’s annual Marketing and Promotional Grants Program. The Board budgeted $40,000 this year for grants and received requests totaling more than $70,000.
This year in order to help all the organizations that submitted grant requests, the TDA voted to fund 71% of the qualifying amount of each grant request it received. Doing so allowed each organization to receive a grant and allow the TDA to stay within budget.
“Times are tough for everybody right now and we wanted to be able to assist each organization rather than decline some requests all together,” said Robin Yount, vice president of Tourism. “We had to stay within budget so we decided to fund a certain percentage across the board to be fair. We felt it was important for these organizations to receive a portion of their grant requests because many have lost funding from other sources this year.”
The only stipulation that comes with the grants is that the money must be used to market local events outside the county in order to attract out-of-town visitors.
The 2009-2010 Marketing and Promotional Grants are awarded to:
•City of Eden Dixie Youth Baseball Tournament at Freedom Park
•City of Eden’s 8th Annual Piedmont Pottery Festival
•Eden YMCA Swimming Meets
•Eden YMCA Tennis Tournaments
•City of Reidsville for Lake Reidsville
•Madison-Mayodan Recreation Commission for the Dan River Boat Race
•Morehead High School Wrestling Boosters for four tournaments
•Olde Leaksville Shopping District for 2009 Eden Riverfest
•Piedmont Folk Legacies for 15th Charlie Poole Music Festival
•City of Reidsville for Dixie Youth Baseball Tournament
•Reidsville Downtown Corporation for Reidsville Downtown Fall Festival
•Reidsville Downtown Corporation for Tour of Reidsville Bike Race
•Stars and Promises Concert
•City of Reidsville for The Penn House
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