MARQUETTE — The Huron Mountain Club Fund is continuing its support of local nonprofits.

The Community Foundation of Marquette County, on behalf of the Huron Mountain Club Fund, distributed $45,800 in grants to nonprofits across Marquette County to support the needs of residents in the area.

Recipients of the 2023 Huron Mountain Club Fund were:

≤ Bay Cliff Health Camp

≤ Big Bay Elementary School

≤ Peter White Public Library

≤ Powell Township Ambulance Service

≤ Powell Township Fire Department

≤ Special Olympics

≤ Trillium House

≤ Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy

≤ Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve

The Huron Mountain Club Endowment Fund was established at the Community Foundation of Marquette County in 1999 and has “impacted the lives of residents” through supporting local schools, the library, hospice care and more.

“The charitable support through the Huron Mountain Club Fund continues to make such a positive impact across the community. This group cares deeply about the well-being of the community, and year after year, they demonstrate this in a powerful way,” Community Foundation of Marquette County CEO Zosia Eppensteiner said in a newsletter. “Since this fund was established, more than $1.1 million in grant funding has been provided to nonprofits in Powell Township and Marquette County.”

One of this year’s fund recipients, the Powell Township Ambulance Service, provides “critical” assistance to the township’s residents and Huron Mountain Club members in need.

With financial support, the Powell Township Ambulance Service was able to purchase an upgraded utility terrain vehicle to facilitate rescues in “vast wilderness and hard to reach places.”

According to Powell Township’s Ambulance Department webpage, responders are volunteers who carry pagers and respond, as available, to calls from Marquette County Central Dispatch in Marquette.

“The majority of our crew are trained Emergency Medical Technicians at basic skill level, some at more advanced levels, specialist and paramedics,” the webpage said. “The EMT-Basic has successfully completed an approved EMT Course which is typically about 150-hours in length.”

EMTs are also trained to use Automatic External Defibrillators, CPR, oxygen administration, bandaging, splinting, emergency childbirth, non-visualized airways and the administration of some medications including epinephrine with an Epi-Pen, aspirin, albuterol and glucose.

The Powell Township Fire Department, another recipient of this year’s HMC Fund, received an $8,500 grant to help outfit Brush 2104 with a booster hose reel and long tool storage to hold wildland firefighting hand tools, according to the fire department’s website.

The Powell Township Fire Department was established in 1975, according to its website.

To learn more about the HMC Fund or to send support, visit cfofmc.org/giving/huron-mountain-club-fund.