Read below to learn about our recent grants.
Don't miss the brief videos from each community below!
Recent Grants
Read below to learn about our recent grants.
Don't miss the brief videos from each community below!
COMMUNITY aspirations
WE GOT A GRANT! projecTS
The following organizations received a Community Grant in 2023 totaling over $60,415:
Boy Scout Troop #229: Summer Jamboree 2023 - $1,500
Center for Workforce Innovations: WorkOne
Winamac Youth Room and 2023 Resource & Opportunity Fair - $10,000
Eastern Pulaski School Corporation: Automated
External Defibrillator (AED) Project - $10,000
Eastern Pulaski School Corporation: Welding
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Initiative - $9,816
Food Finders: Mobile
Food Pantry in Pulaski County - $6,000
Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry: “MEAT the Need”
Food Pantry Program in Pulaski County - $2,000
Hoots to Howls: Pulaski County Wildlife
Rehabilitation - $691
Uptown Project: A Chip Off the Old Block Phase
II - $10,000
VFW Post 1728: VFW Modernization Project -
$5,000
West Central School Corporation: Health
Occupations Program - $5,408
The following organizations received a Community Grant or Small Project Grant in 2022 totaling over $129,209:
The following organizations received a Community Grant or Small Project Grant in 2021 totaling over $75,500:
Over $46,000 was awarded in 2020 from the Community Grants fund to support the following programs/projects:
board bucks
Four local nonprofits received Surprise Board Bucks grants totaling $4,000 in 2022. Board members selected nonprofits that were important to them.
fIELD OF INTEREST
PROJECTS
2021- Jasper/Pulaski Fish & Wildlife received $1,269.50 for the Pollinator Planting project through the Wildlife Conservation & Education Field of Interest Fund.
2020 - Eastern Pulaski Elementary School received a $1,080 grant for the Reading Intervention Program from the Sherald & Verla Bonnell Family Educational Fund. This fund provides grants to support programs for educationally disadvantaged children and adults.
2019 - Winamac High School received a grant for $509 for the Wild Photo Ops project, thanks to the Wildlife Conservation and Education Fund.
PLACEMAKING
LOVE YOUR COMMUNITY GRANTS
Placemaking grants totaling over $26,000 were awarded in December of 2021 thanks to the CFPC Board of Directors that chose to utilize special board discretionary funds for this purpose.
The Community Foundation's first-ever placemaking grants in 2017 awarded a total of $50,000 to Pulaski County communities in celebration of its 20th Year. View project videos on this page.
"Love your community" videos
2017 "love your community" grant projects