Seventeen grants totaling $294,125 have been awarded to local nonprofit agencies and groups in the Foundation’s first competitive grant cycle of 2011.
The grants are awarded in five areas of interest: arts and culture, human services, economic development, education, and community betterment.
First quarter grant recipients include:
- A Better Way Services, Inc. received $25,000 (from the Edmund F. & Virginia B. Ball Fund) to provide shelter and program services to children of domestic violence victims.
- Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) received $2,500 (from the Gordon & Pam Cox Fund) to defray the cost of SNIP, a program that assists low-income families with the costs associated with spaying and neutering their pets, reducing the number of unwanted litters of puppies and kittens being born and abused, abandoned, and/or euthanized.
- Back to School Teachers Store received $12,375 (from the Morris Youth Fund) to purchase energy efficient heating and cooling units at the Back to School Teachers Store.
- Boys and Girls Club of Muncie received $20,000 to help support daily programming to over 80 youth in Delaware County.
- Cardinal Greenway received $15,000 to defray the cost of a utility vehicle with a cab and zero-turn mower to better access property along the recently completed 62 miles of trail.
- Committee for Integrity Enhancement received $2,500 (from the Faye Wingate Fund) to bring noted author and lecturer John Rosemond for a series of four public appearances in Muncie.
- Delaware Advancement Corp. received $100,000 to defray the cost of the fifth year of Vision 2011 economic development program.
- Robert Cooper Audubon Society, Inc. received $15,000 to partially fund Phase 1 and 2 of a habitat restoration and education program including the removal of invasive plant species and replacement with native species. The project will use groups of volunteer schoolchildren and include a biology education component.
- Future Choices, Inc. received $5,000 to support the 2011 Muncie Homecoming Festival.
- Habitat for Humanity received $30,000 to fund one new home build during 2011.
- Huffer Memorial Children’s Center received $32,000 to replace carpet in older sections and classrooms of the child care center.
- LEAD-ECI, Inc. received $5,250 (from the John and Janice Fisher Fund) to provide scholarships for participants from non-profit organizations to attend one of two Emergence leadership training courses in 2011.
- Masterworks Chorale received $2,000 (from the Endowment for the Arts Fund) to defray the cost of an expanded Spring Concert with a professional orchestra.
- Motivate Our Minds received $20,000 (from the Bassett Family Fund) to support educational programming in both Muncie and Albany MOM locations.
- Town of Yorktown received $2,000 (from the Community Wellness Programs Fund) to help support a disc golf course at Yorktown Lions Club Park.
- Women in Business Unlimited, Inc. received $1,500 (from the Faye Wingate Fund) to provide scholarships for fifty low-income women to attend an educational seminar about professional and personal growth.
- Yorktown - Mt. Pleasant Twp. Community Library received $4,000 (from the Gordon and Pam Cox Fund) to purchase books used by staff and students at Yorktown Schools so that the library can be a resource for individuals working on projects and studying for tests.
The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County, Inc. is a publicly supported philanthropic institution governed by a volunteer board of local citizens. The Foundation manages contributions donated by individuals, businesses and corporations as a permanent community endowment. Distributions from these funds are given back to the community in the form of grants to nonprofit organizations and agencies. To date, over $32 million has been awarded to enrich the lives of the residents of Muncie and Delaware County.
The next application deadline is April 8, 2011. Organizations submitting proposals of $25,000 or greater are encouraged to do so in this first grant cycle of the year.
Grant guidelines and applications, as well as post-grant reports, are available on this website.
For more information, contact the Community Foundation Program Officer or by calling 747-7181.
