Community Foundation of Madison and Jefferson County Grants Scholarships Madison Indiana

Lide White Boys & Girls Club

2007 Grants Program Awards

These awards are made possible by donors to Unrestricted Endowments. The donors do not direct how the grants are to be used, but rather give the Foundation’s Board of Directors flexibility in using the money to address community programs. We at the Foundation and your community salute these special people who made these awards possible.

Big Brothers/Big Sister — $975 for promotional equipment

Clifty 6 Fire & Rescue — $12,655 to convert a fire truck to a rescue vehicle

Daughters of the American Revolution — $4,800 for presentation equipment to raise funds to restore and upgrade John Paul Park

Duggan Library - $13,000 for an archive exhibit

Dupont-Lancaster Volunteer Fire Company — $10,900 for a suppression hood

Girls Inc. — $16,000 to renovate their addition

Hanover Parks — $5,470 for playground equipment and an aquatic program

Jefferson County Transitional Services — $10,000 for an in-jail substance abuse program

Lide White Boys & Girls Club — $6,000 for an automatic handicapped door

Madison/Jefferson County Animal Shelter — $10,000 for equipment

Madison/Jefferson County Public Library — $16,950 to preserve rare documents

Madison Parks — $10,000 to renovate Rucker Sports Center

Pathways Youth Shelter & Family Service Center — $7,500 for a mini-van

Ryker’s Ridge Volunteer Fire Company — $12,500 for pagers

Turning Point — $1,750 for educational brochures

Western Fire Company #3 — $10,000 for self-contained breathing apparatuses

Lide White Boys & Girls Club

2006 Grants Program Awards

Big Brothers/Big Sisters — $3,300 for office equipment.
Boy Scouts - Camp Louis Ernst — $5,000 to build a new winter camp shelter to replace one that is in very bad condition.
Canaan Masonic Lodge — $5,000 to turn the derelict Masonic Lodge into a community center Canaanites can be proud of.
Canaan Volunteer Fire Company — $9,000 to replace old, worn, personal protection gear.
Deputy Volunteer Fire Company — $7,000 to purchase new two-way radios.
Jefferson County Historical Society — $10,000 for a traveling children's exhibit.
Jefferson County Park Board — $17,000 to repair Lake Krueger's spillway.
Lide White Boys and Girls Club — $5,600 to help purchase a mini-bus to replace the worn out van.
Madison Junior High Peer Counselors — $3,000 for a summer camp that teaches students to prevent bullying, to learn to be peer mediators, and to develop a drug prevention program.
Pathways Youth Shelter & Family Services — $4,500 to train volunteers to be child advocates for Jefferson County youth who are wards of the state.
Pathways Youth Shelter & Family Services — $10,000 for two-year funding of an alternative academic-based education program.
Turning Point — $700 to purchase a digital camera to document injuries caused by domestic violence.
TV 15/Cable Advisory Board — $10,300 to upgrade equipment.
United Way of Jefferson County — $24,000 for the IDEA Club.

Madison Youth Unlimited's B3 Park

2005 Grants Program Awards

Fall 2005

$10,000 to Girls Inc. to purchase a van to replace the one currently in use.
$5,000 to the Jefferson County Preservation Council to complete the interior renovation of the Suter Wagon Factory building located at Pearl Park.
$4,800 to the Jefferson County Youth Shelter to upgrade the three restrooms used by the residents.
$2,775 to the Lide White Memorial Boys & Girls Club to replace four computers with new ones.
$10,000 to the Madison Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation to purchase equipment for the Ohio Valley Food Venture.
$6,000 to the Madison Township Volunteer Fire Company to purchase pagers for the firefighters.
$2,400 to Planned Parenthood of Indiana to purchase exam room equipment for the Madison facility.

Spring 2005

$5,000 to Girls Inc. for facility improvements.
$1,000 to the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana to renovate the trail system at Camp Whippoorwill. This grant comes from the Frieda Suppes Jones/John Price Jones Memorial Fund for the Jefferson County environment.
$5,200 to Historic Hoosier Hills RC&D for the Jefferson Proving Ground Heritage Partnership to continue to collect and preserve oral histories.
$5,000 to Historic Madison, Inc. to design and construct exhibits for the AME Church located on Fifth Street. $550 comes from the Community Endowment for the Arts with the remaining coming from unrestricted funds.
$15,000 to the Jefferson County 4-H Fairboard to renovate the main section of the grandstands and provide permanent electrical service to the sheep barn.
$5,000 to Jefferson County Transitional Services to install a new roof on the Scalo House, a nine-bed facility for men recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction.
$5,000 to Madison Youth Unlimited to complete the final phase of the Renard R. Keal Memorial Park, a B3 (boarders, bikers, & bladers) park located at the Ruckers Sports Complex.
$5,200 to the Milton Township Volunteer Fire Department to purchase pagers for their firefighters.
$5,000 to the Ryker's Ridge Volunteer Fire Company for the expansion of their firehouse.

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