Recent Grants from the Women's Fund

Grants in 2005

West and Hedges Elementary Schools
$1,870 to provide the Girl Power Program-which focuses on self-esteem, nutrition, careers, manners and community service-for fifth-grade girls

New Harmony School
$500 to provide the Girl Power Program-which focuses on nutrition, arts and crafts, exercise, females in business, friendship and trust activities, and employment-for fourth- through sixth-grade girls

Posey County Step Ahead Council
$1,150 to host the Women's Health Fair

Grants in 2006

The Women's Hospital
$2,000 for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which distributes an age-appropriate book every month to children from birth to 5 years of age who live in Posey County

West and Hedges Central Elementary Schools
$2,620 to provide the Girl Power Program-which focuses on self-esteem, nutrition, careers, manners and community service-for fifth-grade girls

Posey County Domestic Violence Task Force
$1,994 to promote public awareness of the Posey County Domestic Violence Task Force through advertising in local newspapers and on Posey County billboards

Posey County Step Ahead Council
$1,150 to help host two health fairs for women in Posey County

MTV Girls Softball Association
$1,290 to purchase a Jugs Super Softball Pitch Machine

Girl Scouts of Raintree Council
$1,500 for program materials and supplies to host the After-School and Teen Girl programs in Posey County

DOULOS Family Services
$1,000 for Posey County women to attend Transparenting seminars, which provide educational opportunities to parents and children in the midst of separation or divorce

Grants in 2007

Farmersville Elementary School
$1,120 to provide the Girl Power Program-which focuses on self-esteem, nutrition, careers, manners and community service-for fifth-grade girls

Girl Scouts of Raintree Council
$2,500 to provide program materials and financial assistance for kindergarten- through sixth-grade girls in New Harmony, North Elementary, Marrs, and Hedges Schools to attend a leadership development program

Willow Tree of Posey County
$1,211 for materials used in community outreach projects