Past Grant Recipients
2021 Community Grants
- Area 30 Career Center: Purchase teacher supplies
- Bainbridge Elementary School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Beyond Homeless, Inc.: Support for homeless prevention programs
- Central Elementary School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Clinton Township Volunteer Rescue and Fire Department: Purchase AED devices
- Cloverdale Elementary School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Cloverdale High School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Cloverdale Middle School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Deer Meadow Primary School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Fillmore Community Volunteer Fire Department: Purchase 5 sets of turnout gear
- Fillmore Community Volunteer Fire Department: Purchase foam fire suppressant equipment
- Fillmore Elementary School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Friends of the Putnam County Public Library: Create two story walks in Putnam County
- Friends of the Putnam County Public Library: Match to encourage two more story walks
- Gleaners Food Bank: Support for Mobile Food Pantries
- Greencastle Arts Council: Support for “We ART Putnam County” Banner Campaign
- Greencastle Civic League: Support for Civic League projects
- Greencastle Community School Corporation: Create a garden at Greencastle Middle School with afterschool program
- Greencastle High School: Purchase a pug mill for ceramics
- Greencastle High School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Greencastle Middle School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Greencastle Police Department: Update laptop computers in cars
- Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center: Support for Putnam County Leadership Academy
- New Maysville Cemetery Assn.: Repair vandal damaged tombstones
- North Putnam High School: Purchase teacher supplies
- North Putnam Middle School: Purchase teacher supplies
- North Putnam Youth Baseball League: Construction of Concession Stand/Press Box
- Putnam County Coalition for Education and Creative Arts: Support professional development and community awareness
- Putnam County Coalition for Education and Creative Arts: Support for North Putnam film project
- Putnam County Community Emergency Response Team: Support for Project Lifesaver Program
- Putnam County Hospital: Support for Food Rx Program
- Putnam County Museum: Preservation of the 1821 manuscript recording the creation of Putnam County
- Putnam County Museum: Restore historic Elijah Cowgill paintings
- Ridpath Primary School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Roachdale Christian Church Food Pantry: Purchase equipment for Putnam County Food Pantries
- Roachdale Elementary School: Purchase teacher supplies
- Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library: Update financial software to SBOA standards
- South Putnam High School: Purchase teacher supplies
- South Putnam Middle School: Purchase teacher supplies
- South Putnam Youth League: Purchase football safety equipment
- Summer Enrichment: Support for Summer Enrichment Program
- Tzounakis Intermediate School: Purchase teacher supplies
2020 Community Grants
- Area 30 Career Center: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Association for Educational Communications & Technology: Support for “The Civil War Era in the Union’s Heartland” film project
- Bainbridge Community Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Bainbridge Elementary School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Bainbridge Police Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Central Elementary School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Clinton Township Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Cloverdale Elementary School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Cloverdale High School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Cloverdale Middle School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Cloverdale Police Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Deer Meadow Primary School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- DePauw University Police Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Fillmore Community Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Fillmore Elementary School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Fillmore Police Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Floyd Township Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Floyd Township Volunteer Fire Department: Purchase new radios
- Greencastle Arts Council: Strategic Planning
- Greencastle Civic League: Support for Winter Wonderland Lights Festival
- Greencastle Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Greencastle High School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Greencastle Middle School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Greencastle Police Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center: Support for Putnam County Leadership Academy
- Indiana State Police: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Madison Township Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- New Providence Baptist Church Food Pantry: Purchase and install backup generator
- North Putnam High School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- North Putnam Middle School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- North Putnam Youth Baseball League: Construction of Concession Stand/Press Box
- PC Youth Philanthropy Committee: Support for Open Eyes Project
- Putnam County Emergency Services: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Putnam County Museum: Restore historic Elijah Cowgill paintings
- Putnam County Sheriff’s Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Putnamville Correction Facility: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Reelsville-Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Ridpath Primary School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Roachdale Elementary School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Roachdale Police Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Roachdale Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Russellville Police Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Russellville Volunteer Fire Department: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- South Putnam High School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- South Putnam Middle School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Tzounakis Intermediate School: Provide general support due to COVID-19
- Union Chapel Cemetery Association: Restore and clean historic gravestones
2019 Community Grants
- Castlemakers: Provide computing device for all county 6th-grade students to learning computer coding
- Children’s Bureau: Safe Sleep Program
- Family Support Services of West Central Indiana: Expand Peer Recovery Support Services
- Family Support Services of West Central Indiana: Support for Putnam County STOP Abuse Team
- Family Support Services of West Central Indiana: Support for Healthy Families Preservation Program
- Fillmore School PTO: Upgrade school sound system
- Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana: Support BackSacks weekend nutrition program
- Gobin Memorial U.M.C. – Transformers: Support for training Kids Hope USA mentors
- Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church: Support for Summer Enrichment Program
- Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church: Support for EDGE 21
- Greencastle Middle School Music Boosters: Provide a drum kit for jazz band
- Greencastle Rotary Club: Send girls to Rotary Youth Leadership Academy
- Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center: Support for Putnam County Leadership Academy
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry: Cover processing fees of donated deer, elk and livestock which is then given to local food pantries
- Ivy Tech Foundation: Provide transportation for ASAP students
- North Putnam Community Schools: Create an accessible community Giving Garden
- North Putnam Community Schools: Support for Next Level Ready Program
- Phil The Need: Purchase truck for furniture transportation and subscription to Charity Tracker for all Putnam County nonprofits
- Putnam County Habitat for Humanity Purchase construction tools
- Putnam County Kids Count: Expand Putnam County Kids Count Summer Character Camp program
- Putnam County Nonprofits: Provide varied support for multiple Putnam County nonprofits
- The Castle: Provide professional development in project-based learning for Castle coordinators
- West Central Indiana Community Tennis Association: Purchase two tennis ball machines
2018 Community Grants
- Cloverdale Community Housing: Install energy-efficient windows in seniors housing units adding to the number of energy-efficient senior apartments
- Cloverdale Dollars for Scholars: Support the 2018 Putnam County Area College Fair by providing premiums to attendees
- DePauw University: Support for Community Music Program to provide free music lessons for youth in the community
- Downs Syndrome Indiana, Inc: Produce and distribute information packets to parents of infants with Downs Syndrome in Putnam County
- Family Support Services of Western Indiana: Engage youth leadership to prevent sexual & physical abuse through Safe Dates, Coaching Boys into Men and bystander intervention training
- Family Support Services of Western Indiana: Create a system to integrate county service providers in a collaborative community in order to maximize services
- Foundation for Autism Resources: Provide intensive therapies for underserved children with autism in Putnam County
- Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana: Support BackSacks to provide nutritional weekend meals for children who are food insecure
- Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church: Provide seed capital to begin a new program providing small short-term, interest-free loans for persons with immediate needs which hinder employment or housing opportunities
- Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church- Transformers: Implement Circles program which includes training allies for persons completing program for moving out of poverty
- Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center: Support the Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center in promoting Work Force development in the county
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry: Process locally donated deer, elk and livestock to supply local food pantries with high quality meat
- Humane Society of Putnam County: Built covered roofing over existing dog runs providing shade and protection from the weather
- Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network: Provide speakers the Nonprofit Learning Series
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance: Support Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Leadership Circle
- Main Street Greencastle: Purchase banners and improve the marketing of Main Street Greencastle and its First Friday events
- Mental Health America of Putnam County: Educate residents to recognize mental health issues with a focus on suicide prevention
- Phil the Need, Inc.: Provide Charity Tracker Software to all Putnam County agencies providing human services in order to better understand who is receiving services
- Putnam County Ag Service Group: Support for Putnam County Ag Breakfast
- Putnam County Comprehensive Services: Upgrade website to increase public awareness, information and expand training opportunities for PCCS staff
- Putnam County Nonprofits: Awarded grants to Putnam County nonprofits who had representatives complete the Purdue Basic Granting Writing seminar
- Putnam County Youth Development Commission: Support anti-bullying school Assemblies utilizing motivational speaker Keith Deltano
- Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library: Support for Summer Reading and music programs to encourage community involvement and engagement
- Rotary District 6560 Foundation: Support to send eight Putnam County youth leaders to the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy
- St. Andrews Episcopal Church: Support for the non-food pantry
- Town of Cloverdale: Matching grant to market Cloverdale by improving awareness of Cloverdale and events with new signage
- Town of Roachdale: Provide kitchen equipment, meeting space furnishings and technology for the new Roachdale Community Center
2017 Community Grants
- Area 30 Career Center: Hire a program coordinator to ensure workplace readiness
- Beyond Homeless, Inc.: Purchase necessary equipment for startup of a thrift store
- Cloverdale Community School Corporation: Support for Clover U
- Cloverdale Dollars for Scholars: Support for 2017 Putnam County College Fair
- Family Support Services of Western Indiana: Train alcohol servers through Raise the Bar Indiana, a sexual violence prevention program
- Friends of the Putnam County Public Library: Support for Imagination Library
- Gleaners Foodbank of Indiana, Inc.: Support for Back Sacks: Weekend Food for Kids Program
- Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church – Transformers: Expand the TALKS mentoring program
- Greencastle Community School Corporation – Ridpath Primary: Support Tuesdays with Teachers pilot project, helping parents learn how to help children succeed academically
- Greencastle Community School Corporation – Middle School: Provide hands-on materials to learn computers
- Greencastle Presbyterian Church – SAWS Program: Construct ramps for person with disabilities to access their homes
- Greencastle Presbyterian Church – SAWS Program: Help raising funds for ramp construction through matching grant
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry: Cover processing fees for livestock donations to food pantries
- Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network: Provide Nonprofit Learning Series workshops for local nonprofits
- Mental Health America of Putnam County: Engage in a strategic planning process
- Mental Health America of Putnam County: Update materials for co-parenting course for separated and/or divorcing parents
- New Life Baptist Church – Food Pantry: Provide food for needy families in Putnam County
- Putnam County Coalition for Education and Creative Arts: Expand and strengthen The Castle program
- Putnam County Comprehensive Services, Inc.: Create job possibilities in the arts for persons with disabilities
- Putnam County Nonprofits: Award completion of grant writing seminar
- Putnam County Purdue Extension Service: Support for Putnam County Community Leadership Program
- Putnam County Youth Development Commission: Provide presentation by Tony Hoffman to students grades 8-10, to emphasize the importance of choices
- Putnamville United Methodist Church: Create/install interpretive panel at Dr. Horn Office Museum
- Russellville Community Center, Inc.: Support for the Community Christmas Choir
- St. Andrews Episcopal Church – Non-Food Pantry: Provide non-food items to the needy
2016 Community Grants
- Area 30 Career Center: Purchase and maintain a vehicle with air brakes for CDL training
- Beyond Homeless, Inc.: Facilitate Strategic Planning
- Castlemakers: Purchase CO2 engraver for STEAM classes
- Cloverdale Community Schools: Support band trip to Washington, DC
- Cloverdale Community Schools: Support for Little Clovers reading program
- DePauw University School of Music: Support for Music on the Square music lessons for children
- Family Youth and Child Development Program: Replace roof of the community center
- Foundation for Autism Resources: Provide resources for underserved children with autism
- Friends of the Greencastle Fire Department: Renovate and update fire education “smokehouse”
- Friends of the Park- Year 2 of 2- Envision 2016: Extended People Pathways to the southwest
- Greencastle Civic League: Plant trees in recognition of Indiana Bicentennial
- Greencastle Community Schools: Replace computers in Alternative Learning classroom
- Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center: Support operations of the development center
- Heritage Preservation Society of Putnam County: Restoration of the Civil War monument and applications for historic districts in Bainbridge, Cloverdale, Fillmore, Roachdale and Russellville
- Heritage Preservation Society of Putnam County: Install new clock and clock faces on the Putnam County Courthouse
- Hoosiers Feeding Hoosiers: Cover processing fees for donated deer, elk, and livestock to stock local food pantries
- Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network: Provide Nonprofit Learning Series for local nonprofits
- Ivy Tech Community College: Purchase technology devices for ASAP program
- Mental Health America of Putnam County: Support for Puppet Power program
- New Life Connections: Purchase roofing materials for facility to host substance abuse classes
- North Putnam Community Schools- Roachdale Elementary: Implement “Every child, Every day, Whatever it takes” character education program
- Putnam County Playhouse: Miscellaneous unrestricted support
- Roachdale Revitalization Cooperative Alliance: Plant trees in recognition of Indiana Bicentennial
2015 Community Grants
- Area 10 Agency on the Aging – Rural Transit: Replace aging, inefficient vehicle
- Beyond Homeless, Inc.: Provide services for homeless persons
- Care Net Pregnancy Center of Putnam County: Expand parking at the Care Net facilities
- Cloverdale Community Housing: Install new, energy-efficient windows
- Cloverdale Main Street: Promote festivals in Cloverdale
- DePauw University School of Music: Support for Music on the Square music lessons for children
- Fillmore Community Volunteer Fire Department: Outfit kitchen at the new fire station
- Friends of the Putnam County Public Library: Provide support for Imagination Library Program
- Gleaners Food Bank: Provide weekend nutrition for food-insecure students
- Gobin Memorial Methodist Church: Support to increase the scope of Transformers program
- Greencastle Arts Council: Create a well-designed, interactive website to connect artists and community
- Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center: Support operations of the development center- Year 4 of 5
- Indiana Nonprofit Resource Network:Provide Nonprofit Learning Series for local nonprofits
- Main Street Greencastle: Stimulate economic growth by expanding First Fridays
- Putnam County Comprehensive Services: Provide cooking utensils to train persons with disabilities
- Putnam County Public Library: Transfer rare, historic film of Putnam County to digital media
- Roachdale Revitalization Cooperative Alliance: Install meter box for use at community festivals
- Susie’s Place Child Advocacy Center: Provide child sex abuse prevention training to adults that serve, care for and work with youth
- Western Indiana Community Action Agency: Install weather resistant doors at the RSVP Recycling Center