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Tamworth hears nonprofit funding requests: Bear Camp Center seeks $6,000 for meals, $8,000 for camp
Summary
The Select Board heard presentations from Bear Camp Center, White Mountain Community Health Center and an Ossipee-area Meals on Wheels provider. Bear Camp requested $6,000 for takeout meals and $8,000 for summer-camp scholarships and said data show most meals serve Tamworth residents.
Leanne Prentice, representing the Bear Camp Center, asked the Tamworth Select Board for $6,000 to support a takeout, donation-based meals program and $8,000 for summer-camp scholarships. "This year we're asking for $6,000 for the meals," Prentice said, adding the center now tracks town of origin on a voluntary signup clipboard and estimates that 68% of reported meals go to Tamworth residents.
Prentice described the meals as fully cooked, single-serve meals produced in a licensed kitchen and distributed on a pay-what-you-can model; she said donations covered roughly $9,800 last year while USDA…
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