Recent Grants

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 nearly $10,000 during our most recent grant cycle:

Children & Family Services Corp. for Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program 

$770 to provide funding for volunteer training manuals & children's Robbie Rabbit Books & Brochures to support their work in Knox County 

Junior Achievement of Southwestern Indiana

$1000 to provide partial funding in support of their projects in Knox County Junior Achievement classes.

Generations
$1000 to provide partial funding to support their "Knox County Fall Prevention Program."
 

Knox County Public Library
$1000 to provide local match required by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to purchase computers in support of their "Gates Computers for Community Development" project. 

Old Northwest Corporation
$1000 to provide partial funding for their "Comets, Quakes, & Squirrels" project.

Psi Iota Xi, Alpha Omicron Chapter

$890 to fund the performing artists' fees for their "Performance for Knox County Sixth Graders" project.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Ohio Valley, Inc.

$1000 to provide funding for Knox County residents who show financial need for their "Knox County Overnight Guest Program."

Walnut Grove United Methodist Church
$1,000 to support their "Back To School Mall" project.