Mary Gibble, President of the Hancock County Community Foundation, spoke to the Kiwanis club about the foundation. The foundation is 27 years old and has over 300 funds totaling over $40 million dollars. 100 of the funds are scholarships for Hancock County Students. The Greenfield Kiwanis club has three scholarship funds. In 2018 over $1.4 million was granted from various funds.
The Foundation also has unrestricted funds to take care of community needs. Three programs are currently funded by these unrestricted funds: Level Up for local non-profits; Excellence Academy and Y-GIVE (Youth _ Granting, Investing, Volunteering and Engaging), a youth program.
The foundation also is involved in education for all age groups. The foundation provides funds to each of the four school corporation educational foundations in addition to the 129 scholarships provided to the students The foundation provides non-traditional adult learners with scholarships in partnership with LINK. Early Childhood Literacy is accomplished through the Imagination Library program in partnership with the Dolly Parton foundation. The program provides high quality, age appropriate, reading materials to registered children from birth to kindergarten, They receive 60 books in conjunction with the Hancock County Public Library. An endowment fund will fund this program forever. Currently $1.9 million of the goal of $2 million has been raised for Imagination Library. 1,578 babys and toddlers are currently enrolled in the program. For more information on the foundation or giving to a fund go to
givehcgrowhc.org.
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