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

Grants in 2008

Community Action Program of Evansville & Vanderburgh County
$2,471 for the purchase of resources to instruct parents on the proper way to care for their sick children and for "Healthy Home Kits".

New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art
$885 to purchase materials to conduct four fiber arts classes for women.

Posey County Council on Aging
$2,350 to support Tai Chi classes for aging women at Poseyville and Mt. Vernon Senior centers to help them maintain good physical and mental health.

Posey County Domestic Violence Task Force
$1,900.34 to purchase materials to be used in community outreach projects, a fire resistant filing cabinet, and thirty gas cards.

Posey County Steps Ahead Council - Family Matters
$1,190 to purchase ten portable cribs.

St. Peter's United Methodist Church
$500 for classes that will teach single mothers about meal planning, food preparation, and proper food storage.

West and Hedges Central Elementary Schools
$2,295 for the "Girl Power" program that promotes healthy life choices for girls in the fifth grade.

Grant in 2009

Posey County Steps Ahead Council/Family Matters
$730 to purchase five portable baby cribs

Farmersville Elementary School
$1,000 to conduct a "Girl Power" program to promote healthy life choices for 5th Grade girls

West and Hedges Central Elementary Schools
$1,270 to conduct a "Girl Power" program to promote healthy life choices for 5th Grade girls

Posey County Domestic Violence Task Force, Inc.
$300 to purchase gas cards for clients

Community Action Program of Evansville & Vanderburgh County
$971 to purchase 75 copies of "What To Do When Your Child Gets Sick"

American Red Cross, Posey County Chapter
$650 to provide 20 Posey County women with free infant/child CPR classes