Meeting Community Needs

Grant gives volunteers tools for helping single mothers

Dolores (not her real name) is a single mom with two children, a minimum wage job, and no family nearby. She works hard and does her best to provide for her family. Dolores depends on her car to get her kids to school and herself to work each day. Keeping up with her cars maintenance used to be a constant concern - until she learned about the Single Mom's Car Care Program. Learn more...

New equipment helps volunteer firefighters saves lives

The Daviess County Community Foundations grants committee began reviewing funding proposals last August, the one from the Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department quickly caught their attention. That's because they learned some scary information from the firefighter's request. The department's proposal told of firefighters entering buildings with no way to see through the flames and smoke. They talked of falling to their hands and knees, searching for unconcious victims and the source of fires. Learn more...

Kids learn to "just say no"

The Just Say No movement began in early 1980s during a vist of First Lady Nancy Reagan to an elementary school in Oakland, California. When asked how to respond to peer pressure regarding drugs and alcohol, Mrs. Reagan replied with the simple message: Just Say No. Learn more...

Struggling Mother Credits Friends for Kids for Changing Her Life

For many years, Christina Godfrey's first thought as she started each day was, How am I going to pay the rent and the utilities and put food on the table for my daughter? Christina, a self-employed single mother, was having difficulty making ends meet when she learned about Friends for Kids of Daviess County. Learn more...

Veale Creek Players Continue Theatre Renovations

The first play performed at the Veale Creek Theatre was Count Dracula, performed in 1979 by the newly renamed Veale Creek Players. The troupe had been performing mostly at the Washington High School Auditorium as the Washington Civic Players before the opportunity for a theatre of their own presented itself. Learn more...

Spotlight on Beds and Britches Etc.

Mary Wimmenauer has seen a signifcant increase in the number of families using the Beds and Britches, Etc., store, where patrons rade vouchers to "purchase" necessities for babies and children. While other agencies are concerned when client numbers increase, those at Bed and Britches, Etc., commonly known as BABE, are happy to see more families using the store. Learn more...

Gift IV Special Grants Update

Bill Goodwin, Jenny Kloer, and Ace Yackey of Lilly Endowment arrived at the Pike County Community Foundation's new field office nright and early on the morning of May 10 to embark on what would be a whirlwind tour of nearly all of Pike and Daviess Counties. Learn more...