The Distribution Committee of the Tipp City Area Community Foundations met for its Winter session to award grants. These community leaders considered several grant requests that could benefit its citizens. In the end, six organizations were chosen to receive 14 awards totaling $27,012.41.
Grants awarded in this giving cycle were the following.
Bethel Hope, $1,583.81, assists citizens of Bethel Township and the surrounding areas in meeting basic needs during times of critical personal downturns. This grant also enables this ministry to expand its service hours.
Community Minded Women, $600, continues the custom begun in 1944 of a Tippecanoe High School Senior Girls’ Traditional Tea, saluting the young women about to graduate.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, $2,000, underwrites the expenses associated with bringing music to both Bethel and Tipp City schools. Specifically, students will experience live orchestral performances, learn about music and musical concepts, and have their classroom lessons and learning enriched through demonstrations of music’s correlation to academic subjects including language arts, history, geography, social studies, math and science.
Needy Baskets, $7,500, helps this agency meet an expanding demand in the last part of the year, which is expected to increase by 35% in 2010 over 2009.
Tipp Monroe Community Services received several grants that will refill the coffers of several important programs that run perennially. They are:
$1,500, purchases, repairs and maintains instruments available through the Band Instruments Program. These instruments are used by children who would not otherwise be able to afford to participate in the school band.
$3,633.65, funds the Community Relief Program that provides financial assistance for rent, utilities and prescriptions to individuals.
$500, aids the Diaper and Formula Fund, an emergency program that assists families with small children.
$500, replenishes the Mobile Meals Program, which provides one hot meal a day to home-bound seniors or disabled residents.
$3,500, anticipates an increased demand in the summer of 2011 for this school-aged, summer lunch program called Lunch on Us.
Tipp City Exempted Village Schools submitted many grant requests for consideration. As is always the case, the Distribution Committee wishes it could select more of the worthy applications, but are only able to fund the following due to funding restrictions.
$1,119.95, purchases digital e-books for the middle school library.
$1,750, introduces Artist in Residence Chris Rowlands to the LT Ball students for the Miami County Park’s Watershed Program. Students will use creative writing and musical skills to create songs that summarize the knowledge they have gained.
$1,200 purchases two Apple iPads for the middle school media center. This technology can be used in a whole classroom setting or with individual students.
$473, illustrates the world beyond through a planetarium field trip for high school science students.
$1,152, expands a collection of third-grade interactive board games that teach math and reading skills.
Since 1943, the Tipp City Area Community Foundations has awarded over $1,324,000 in grants to the community. Members of the Distribution Committee are Mike Lightle, chair, Heather Bailey, Dr. Jim Ranft, Matt Timmer and Jackie Wahl. Other trustees include Jesse Chamberlain, Joan Creech, Anita Bowman-Hamber and Marilyn Richards.
The Tipp City Area Community Foundations is a member fund of The Troy Foundation. If you would like information about how to make a tax-deductible contribution to the Foundation, or how your organization can apply for a grant, please contact Mike Lightle at (937) 667-4068.
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