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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 18, 2004 $711,183 GRANTED TO LOCAL AGENCIES The Fort Wayne Community Foundation, in its second quarter of 2004, granted a total of $711,183 to nonprofit agencies in Allen County. The Board of Directors of the Fort Wayne Community Foundation met on May 6, 2004, and selected grants are listed below: Grants awarded from the Community Grant Making Fund include: Easter Seals ARC of Northeast Indiana, Inc.: $10,000 in salary support for a registered nurse for the Child Development Center, the only local childcare center serving infants and children who have serious medical/developmental disabilities and/or mental retardation. St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative: $10,000 in general operating support for watershed-scale efforts to improve the water quality in the St. Joseph River watershed, the source of drinking water for the residents of Fort Wayne and New Haven. Camp Watcha-Wanna-Do: $1,378 for a digital media projector and case for meetings and presentations. Camp Watcha-Wanna-Do offers a summer camp for children with cancer and those surviving cancer, as well as additional programming throughout the year to children and adult cancer survivors. Catholic Charities: $50,000 for the Education Creates Hope and Opportunity (ECHO) teen parenting program designed to address the specific needs of pregnant and parenting teens who have not completed high school. Washington House, Inc.: $50,000 for their Detox Program, a stabilization program that helps the indigent population suffering from the disease of addiction return to life as productive citizens. Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, Inc.: $19,381 to upgrade the agency's computer system and link two program sites, allowing the Bureau to increase efficiencies between their women's business center, the drug and alcohol treatment program, and rape awareness program. Fort Wayne Youtheatre, Inc.: $4,800 to fund free ticket distributions for performances throughout the season to less privileged children and reading groups through the Allen County Public Library. Indiana Institute of Technology, Inc.: $50,000 to fund technology needs for a state-of-the-art technology conference and meeting center in the Andorfer Commons that will be made available to the community. Grants awarded from the Clarke Endowment Fund include: Allen County Local Education Fund: $30,000 for Project READS (Reading, Early Assistance in Developing Skills), which focuses on supporting the literacy development of underachieving K-3rd grade students and their parents. Arthur J. Blaising Community Center, Inc.: $33,596 for the Center's Children and Youth Services Programs that provide free snacks and meals year-round to children and youth as well as an early childhood education program for children ages three to five. Audiences Unlimited: $15,000 for musicians and music therapists that will travel from room to room to visit bedfast and paralyzed nursing home residents in 21 participating facilities. Fort Wayne Park Foundation, Inc.: $10,000 for the Lifetime Sports Academy, serving youth ages eight to 18 by offering free lessons in golf, tennis and swimming during the summer months. Stop the Madness, Inc.: $50,000 for the Parents and Children Excelling (P.A.C.E.) Program that places adults in the schools during the day to talk to students who need positive role models and support to help develop leadership and life skills. United Hispanic-Americans, Inc. d.b.a. Benito Juarez Cultural Center: $50,000 towards building renovations to permit the organization to expand to meet the programming and service needs of a growing Hispanic population. Grants awarded from the Knight Donor Advised Fund include: Fort Wayne Sports Foundation: $10,000 to help fund a Market and Usage Study to examine the need for additional aquatics and ice venues in Fort Wayne and the impact a new facility would have on existing facilities in the region. Grants awarded from the Business Education Field of Interest Fund include: Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana: $14,400 for the Economics Program that offers 12th grade students an understanding of the free enterprise system, entrepreneurship, business operations, business ethics, monetary and fiscal policies and effects, and international trade. Purdue University: $10,000 for the Indiana Council for Economic Education's SMS Classroom Partners Program in which students in grades four through twelve invest hypothetical funds in stocks and mutual funds to learn personal finance and economic concepts. (For more specific information on the above, please contact the organizations.) The Fort Wayne Community Foundation has recently changed its grant making procedures. Please call the Foundation office at 426-4083 to request the new grant guidelines. Established in 1956, the Fort Wayne Community Foundation is a public, charitable foundation serving Allen County. The Community Foundation had assets of over $78 million at December 31, 2003, and awarded over $6.5 million in charitable grants and scholarships in that year. These dollars support programs and projects for arts and culture, community development, education, health and human services, and other charitable purposes. # # # Fort Wayne Community Foundation
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