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The Pike County Community Foundation awarded $170,789 in grants to seven local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations to celebrate its 25th Anniversary of serving Pike County through impactful grantmaking. These grants funded “quality of place” projects that are essential to improving Pike County residents’ lives, driving economic development, and attracting visitors.
Over the past 25 years, the Pike County Community Foundation has been able to grow our assets to over $5.8 million in endowments and non-permanent funds and has granted out over $1.9 million since inception. “What an impact we have made, are making, and will continue to make,” Laura Hazelman, Regional Director of Community Engagement and Impact.
The nonprofit organizations awarded grants have projects that will improve or enhance the physical environment and other characteristics of the community that will make the county an attractive place to live, work, and play. The 25th Anniversary grant recipients are:
· $25,000 to Winslow Parks and Recreation to assist with the cost of turning the old tennis courts into a pickleball court;
· $25,000 to Charger Soccer Club to assist with the cost of creating a boys and girls middle school soccer complex in Winslow;
· $25,000 to Pike County Progress Partners, Inc. to assist with the cost of demolishing and cleaning up the site of the donated blight house in preparation for building safe housing with new sidewalks on 7th Street in Petersburg;
· $23,340 to Pike County School Corporation to purchase a Creator Space at Winslow Elementary where students can come together to learn, create, and innovate;
· $25,000 to The ARC Southwest Indiana to assist with the programming cost to provide vocational training to individuals with intellectual disabilities to prepare them for competitive employment;
· $25,000 to 4-H Council of Pike County, Indiana to assist with the cost of remodeling the restrooms in the Pike County 4-H building to make them more substantial, more user-friendly, safer, and ADA-compliant; and
· $22,449 to Pike County Public Library to purchase a music garden including flower & butterfly bells, lily pad cymbals, mushroom gongs, and a tenor tree to add harmony to the library's outdoor play space.
For more information, please contact Laura Hazelman, Regional Director of Community Engagement and Impact at lhazelman@communityfoundationalliance.org.