The Community Foundation of Shelby County recently awarded more than $119,000 to local organizations during its Spring Community Grants cycle. Grant money comes from several sources, including gifts to the annual Community Foundation Partners program and earnings from the Community Impact, Roscoe Beanblossom, Kermit and Ella Kuck and Prime the
2024 Fall Grants In the fall of 2024, your gifts helped our Grant Committee fund ten grants that helped local residents with needs for today and formative opportunities for tomorrow. Built up with support from your contributions to the Foundation, the Community Impact Fund, The Memory Fund, FISH Fund, Monarch Machine Tool Company Legacy
Community Foundation of Shelby County Distributes $1.1 Million in Match Day Gifts The Community Foundation of Shelby County distributed $1,165,914 in Match Day gifts to 30 participating charities Thursday at the Historic Sidney Theatre. This year’s total exceeded the 2023 amount by more than $336,000. For the eighth consecutive year, the
Future Fairlawn graduates will benefit from a new scholarship created in memory of the school’s 1987 valedictorian. The Erick Richard Roush Young Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by his mother, Marilyn Young, within the Community Foundation of Shelby County. According to his family, Erick had received numerous scholarships and his hope would be to pass
Beginning in 2024, Houston graduating seniors will be able to apply for a Reese C. Gross Scholarship. The scholarship fund recently transferred to the Hardin-Houston Local School Foundation following the closure of a local church.The scholarship amount was initially given through the estate of Mary Gross of Sidney in memory of her husband Reese to
The Jackson Center Athletic Booster Club created a fund within the Community Foundation of Shelby County. The club works in partnership with Jackson Center Local Schools to improve school and community athletic programs and facilities. “We established the Jackson Center Athletic Booster Club Fund using our reserves,” said Greg Woolley, Athletic Boosters treasurer. “Growing
Shelby County high school seniors dreaming of an engineering career may seek a scholarship from the recently established Ken and Mary Beth Monnier Engineering Scholarship Fund, administered by the Community Foundation of Shelby County. “The satisfaction we found with careers in engineering and knowing that this field will continue to provide solutions for the
“Local donors who created charitable funds at the Community Foundation of Shelby County were the catalysts in more than $3.4 million in grants and scholarships awarded in 2022,” according to Marian Spicer, executive director. There were 21 new charitable funds established in 2022, bringing the total charitable funds administered to more than 235 and total
Matt Hoying of Russia has joined the board of trustees of the Community Foundation of Shelby County. Hoying is a civil engineer and president of Choice One Engineering, who also serves on Board of the Wilson Health Foundation. He and his wife Amanda are the parents of five.Retiring from the board is the Hon. Norman
The Community Foundation of Shelby County distributed $812,078 to 25 participating charities Friday from proceeds of its Match Day event. The amount exceeded the 2021 total by more than $153,000. Match Day was held on Nov. 29th, Giving Tuesday, and results were announced to each organization during a celebration held Friday at the Historic Sidney