Recent Grants

Front row, left to right, Oenone Bradly of Old Union Community Association, Kim Herbertz of RSVP, Jason Miller of the Town of Oden VPD, Marsha Lynn of the Odon Winklepleck Public Library, Emily Davis for Powering Kids Up! At Helen Griffith Elementary School, Sheri Phillips of Generations and Mary Wimmenaurer of Beds & Britches, Etc.

Second row, left to right, Sherri Davis of Connections Jubilee Christmas, Theresa Heidenreich of the Washington Carnegie Public Library, Mark Rice  of Feed My Sheep, Kevin Shake of the Town of Plainville, Laura Sims of Friends For Kids, Cindy Barber of Purdue Extension Reality Language Program, Ken Showalter of the Washington Township Volunteer Fire Dept., and Donna Burger of Hope House/Church On the Way.

When our donors give unrestricted gifts, they allow the Foundation's trustees to determine how their gifts can best serve the community from year to year as needs and programs change. The earnings from these gifts are distributed through our Discretionary Grants Program. This program allowed us to award more than $65,105 during our most recent grant cycle:

Our unrestricted funds contributing to this grant cycle are the Jay Myers Unrestricted Fund, the Friends of Daviess County Fund, Traylor Fertilizer Service, Inc./Joe and Gladys Traylor Fund, Senator Homer and Irma Capehart Fund, Old National Fund for Daviess County, Midwest Natural Gas Corporation Unrestricted Fund, Edward Jones & Co. Achievement Fund, Black Beauty Daviess County Community Fund, Perdue Farms Inc. Unrestricted Fund, Home Building Savings Bank FSB Unrestricted Fund, and the Maysville Enterprises LLC Fund.

We also received a generous grant to supplement our granting this year.  The Smithville Charitable Foundation offered the opportunity to apply for a grant and awarded $28,370 to support programs addressing the needs of the youth of the North Daviess area.

On October 25, 2010, we proudly distributed a total of $65,105 to the following 18 progams and organizations:

BABE for partial funding for Beds and Britches, Etc., CASA for Child Advocacy training, Daviess County Partnership to support Jubilee Christmas, Feed My Sheep of Daviess County to partially fund a protective awning, Friends for Kids for the new school enhancement program, Generations for partial funding of the Daviess County Fall Prevention program, Helen Griffith Elementary for partial funding of the Powering Kids Up program, Odon Reserve Police Department for equipping the Odon Reserve police car, Old Union Community Association to partially fund restoration and location of stones, Purdue University Coop Ext. Service Daviess County for partial funding of the Strengthening Families through Education program, Purdue University Coop Ext Service Daviess County for partial funding for the Reality Language Expansion, RSVP for Children's Vision screening program, Town of Plainville for their 2011 Back to School Bash, Town of Plainville for partial funding of re-surfacing tennis and basketball courts, Washington Carnege Public Library for partial funding of the Opportunity Online project, Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department for partial funding of the Action Training System, Hope House for partial funding of Items for Distribution, and the Odon Winklepleck Library to help with the Gates Foundation Matching Grant opportunity.