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Grant Opportunity to Support Local Fire Safety
Education and Training Launched
Published: October 02, 2025
at 05:30 p.m.
By: Press Release
from NNY Community Foundation
Grant Opportunity to Support Local Fire Safety
Education and Training Launched
Up to $10,000 Available from the Garrett W. Loomis
Firefighters Fund
 WATERTOWN — A funding
opportunity to support fire safety education and training across Northern
New York is now available to fire departments serving Jefferson, Lewis, and
St. Lawrence counties.
The Garrett W.
Loomis Firefighters Fund of the Northern New York Community Foundation
will award up to $10,000 this fall to enhance fire education and training
across the region. This opportunity is presented in collaboration with the
Garrett W. Loomis Foundation.
The goal of this
grant program is to assist area fire departments with funding to augment
fire education and training that helps their organization prepare, grow and
protect the communities they serve.
Examples of
funding requests may include, but are not limited to:
§ Continuing
education through workshops or seminars
§ Fire training
equipment and technology
§ On-site resources
(training props or educational materials)
§ mprovements to regional fire
training centers
§ Guest speakers
for trainings
Local fire
departments are encouraged to apply online at bit.ly/grant-portal.
Collaboration with other fire departments on a grant application is
encouraged.
The deadline to apply is Friday, November 14. Please direct
questions about this grant opportunity to Max DelSignore, Community
Foundation vice president, at max@nnycf.org.
The Garrett W.
Loomis Firefighters Fund was established at the Community Foundation to
provide charitable support for fire education, safety and training across
the region. The fund was established to honor Mr. Loomis, a Sackets Harbor
native, who was killed in the line of duty battling a local silo fire in
2010.
Garrett’s
firefighters fund supports an annual fire safety seminar presented locally
and featuring national, high-level expertise from career firefighters. The
fund has also directed grants to area fire training centers for a variety
of emerging training needs.
This grant
opportunity is made possible through support from gifts made to the Garrett
W. Loomis Firefighters Fund at the Community Foundation, as well as
individual contributions and community activities of the Garrett W. Loomis
Foundation.
Also, leadership
supporters of the Garrett W. Loomis Foundation include:
Watertown Savings Bank, Reed & Benoit and Carpenter Stoodley,
Inc. Funeral Homes, North Harbor Dairy, Knowlton Technologies,
Fuccillo Automotive Group, Karen Peebles and Berkshire Hathaway
Home Services CNY Realty, BridgeView
Real Estate, the Lawman Group, R. Martins Contracting,
and Thomas Trash Service.
PHOTO: Garrett W.
Loomis
About the
Northern New York Community Foundation
Since 1929, the
Northern New York Community Foundation has invested in improving and
enriching the quality of life for all in communities across Jefferson,
Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties
.
Through
partnerships with businesses and organizations, charitable foundations, and generous families and individual
donors, the Community Foundation awards grants and scholarships from an
endowment and collection of funds that benefit the region. Its commitment
to donors helps individuals achieve their charitable objectives now and for
generations to come by preserving and honoring legacies of community
philanthropy while inspiring others.
The Community
Foundation is a resource for local charitable organizations, donors,
professional advisors and nonprofit organizations. It also works to bring
people together at its permanent home in the Northern New York Philanthropy
Center to discuss challenges our communities face and find creative
solutions that strengthen the region and make it a great place to live,
work, and play.
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