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 more than $31,000 during our most recent grant cycle:

American Red Cross Old Northwest Territory Chapter
$2,400 for computer equipment to present disaster preparedness courses

Bettye J. McCormick Senior Center
$1,100 for the Help Me Medicate Program

Generations (Division of Vincennes University's Statewide Service)
$3,000 for the Caring for the Caregiver Program

Harbor House
$371 for a new telephone system

Junior Achievement of Southwestern Indiana
$1,150 for the America Works Program

North Knox Social Ministries
$1,200 for restroom renovations

Old Northwest Corporation
$5,000 for the "A Day in the Life at Fort Knox II: War of 1812" interactive school program

Psi lota Xi Alpha Omicron Chapter
$2,700 for the Book Readers and Horn Blowers' Red Skelton performance

Town of Sandborn
$1,200 for the Sandborn Summer Recreation Program

United Way of Knox County
$6,750 for the 4-Communities Partnership Project

Vincennes Central Business District
$417 for emergency repair of the downtown speaker system

Vincennes University Foundation
$810 for the "Detroit Women" discussion group

Vincennes/Knox County Convention and Visitors Bureau
$2,000 for the 275th Anniversary of Vincennes celebration

Wabash Valley Human Services
$2,000 for the Parent Incentive Program

Wabash Wellness Group
$1,000 for the Cancer Support Group