Community Foundation of Howard County, Inc.

215 W. Sycamore
Kokomo, IN 46901
(765) 454-7298
(800) 964-0508

Recent Grants

2011 Competitive Grants

The Community Foundation of Howard County has awarded more than $95,000 in competitive grants during 2011.

"Funds awarded through our competitive grants process are an important way to help organizations provide essential services," said Joe Dunbar, chairman of the Community Foundation of Howard County Grants Committee. "We thank donors to our unrestricted funds for utilizing the Foundation as a way to support Howard County. As a Foundation, it is important to adapt to the changes in the community, and these donations enable us to help with current needs while building funds in anticipation of future needs."

The following agencies and programs were awarded grants:

$1,500 to Blush through the Northern Indiana Community Foundation to provide 150 scholarship admissions for low-income and at-risk students to participate in a two-day event in November. The event educates students in grades 4-12 about the misleading and false appeal of the media. The speaker for the event was Tina Marie Griffin, a former actress who now shares her insights with students, educators and parents. The purpose is to provide a positive educational program that promotes physical, emotional and spiritual growth for youth.

$2,000 to Book Readers and Horn Blowers (BRHB) will provide support for the "Duke Ellington, American Jazz Legend" program. BRHB will present the program at Taylor Primary and Taylor Intermediate schools. The program increases student awareness of the importance of their American cultural heritage and promotes the love of reading, history and music. During this interactive program, Ellington's life will be presented through a convocation and musical performance.

$3,000 to the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 28 to provide support to bring the American Veterans Traveling Tribute (AVTT) to Kokomo from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. The AVTT includes an 80 percent scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall in Washington, D.C. The AVTT will be on display at 2100 E. Lincoln Road, and all events in conjunction with the display are free and open to the public.

$5,000 to Family Service Association (FSA) of Howard County will provide partial matching support for the Healthy Families Matching Funds project. FSA received a matching grant award from the Kid's First Trust Fund through the Indiana Department of Child Services. FSA has to raise private funds to access these funds. These funds will be used to offset cuts and preserve services provided through the Healthy Families program that offers research-based home visiting services to parents of young children.

$5,000 to the Family Service Association will provide partial support to sustain the organization's Consumer Credit Support (CCS) service for the next six months. CCS provides debt management, budgeting, foreclosure prevention and financial counseling services to people in Howard County who struggle with financial and credit problems. FSA has been providing this service for 15 years at little or no cost to clients. Funding will also be used to obtain accreditation that would allow FSA to secure additional funding.

$3,874 to Gilead House will be used to replace four computers for the office and two computers for use by clients. Clients will use the computers to search for jobs, fill out online applications and take online classes. Grant money will also be used to purchase financial software to help payroll and bookkeeping become more efficient.

$1,950 to Guardian Angel Hospice Foundation will provide funding support to purchase informational books and brochures to assist the community with end-of-life issues. In order to fully stock the resource center with the book "In the Checklist of Life," a purchase of 150 books is required. The Resource Center is a newly established library open to the public. The book is an important workbook for families facing life-threatening illness.

$10,000 to the Howard County Veterans Memorial Corporation will provide partial support for the "Family Statue Phase 1" project. Phase 1 of the memorial includes sidewalk construction, landscaping lights and brickwork. The new memorial will be dedicated to the families of veterans and active duty service men and women.

$20,000 to the Indiana Lions Trust Fund for the Greentown Lions Club will be used to preserve the last round barn in Howard County. Grant money will be used for windows, doors, loft stairways, loft flooring and railing, and interior wall siding. A popular attraction during the Howard County 4-H fair, the restoration of the round barn will promote a better understanding of the cultural history of Indiana agriculture and provide educational value to area schools and organizations.

$15,000 to Indiana University Kokomo will provide partial, matching support to purchase 1,100 slightly used auditorium seats for Haven's Auditorium. The community will be served by enhancing the auditorium's seating for the community groups who use this venue for local theater, music, art performances and meetings.

$2,800 to the Kokomo Park Band will support a series of eight free concerts and activities. The funding will help to afford two nationally recognized guest clinicians/conductors, marketing and promotional materials, artistic fees, travel expenses and musical arrangements for these events. Events include a cartoon night, patriotic concert, big band night, international night and legacy night.

$4,435 to the Kokomo Rescue Mission will provide funding to replace 11 interior doors in the headquarters facility and the Open Arms facility that do not have a glass panel. The doors are required in order to meet the standards of preventing sexual abuse and child molestation.

$2,200 to Loving Hands Adult Day Care will help to purchase equipment, display board, training DVDs, wide screen TV with DVD player and display board video screen. The equipment will be used for in-house staff training, client socialization and marketing.

$4,000 to Maple Grove Community Church's New Leaf Mentoring Program provides support to purchase video presentation equipment, online mentor resources, and program equipment for mentor and mentees to use during activities (recreation, fitness, education, service projects and more). New Leaf Mentoring hopes to launch a mentoring match support project to assure the stability of the mentor match. This support includes quality orientation and training, activity support, follow-up, mentor and mentee community building opportunities and planned activities.

$1,500 to Ronald McDonald House will help bridge the gap between the actual cost to provide lodging to Howard County families and the amount they can contribute toward their stay. The Ronald McDonald House helps alleviate stress for families by providing low-to-no-cost lodging and support where families can be near their hospitalized child.

$5,000 to Samaritan Caregivers will provide support for a billboard campaign in Howard County to help build awareness and recruit volunteers. Samaritan Caregivers utilizes volunteers to provide free assistance with non-medical, daily activities for people age 65 and over who are still living at home.

$3,000 to SCORE Chapter 0543 will be used for the organization's 2012 marketing program. The program will include billboards, Yellow Book and Internet advertising. The marketing is to inform the community about the availability of SCORE's free counseling services for entrepreneurs.

$1,000 to the Tippecanoe Arts Federation will provide partial support towards a mural in Howard County. The project partners a professional artist with local youth and community members in the design, creation and implementation of the mural. The objectives are to beautify community areas, visually promote the benefit of arts in the community and have a positive impact on all participants. This program also is a collaborative educational outreach program that serves underserved and at-risk youth.

$5,000 to the United Way of Howard County will provide support to the United Way of Howard County and other funding partners to conduct a community and countywide needs assessment. The assessment gathers demographics, data and survey results from varied sources and produces a comprehensive document for community use.

 

About the Community Foundation of Howard County, Inc.

The Community Foundation of Howard County, Inc. is a not-for-profit charitable corporation created in 1991. The purpose of the Foundation is to serve the interests of donors, to make grants, and to act as a catalyst around issues of community importance in Howard County.

For information about the Community Foundation and its services to donors, call Ron Harper or Hilda Burns at (765) 454-7298. The web site (www.cfhoward.org) contains information about making gifts to endowment funds, scholarships, and grantmaking. Our e-mail address is info@cfhoward.org.

 

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