The Perry County Community Foundation recently presented Community Good Grants totaling $58,659.10 to nine organizations serving Perry County. These grants were made possible by the following endowment funds created to support our community’s greatest needs:
· Arnold Mulzer Fund for the Community Good
· Boerste-Efinger-Hayden Fund
· Cardinal-Smith-Etienne Fund
· For Good, Forever Advisory Board Fund
· Friends of Perry County Fund
· German American Bancorp Community Fund- Perry
· Hoosier Hills Credit Union Better for Our Communities Endowment Fund- Perry
· Joseph L. and Alene M. Dauby Endowment Fund
· N&N Mulzer Unrestricted Fund
· Perry County Power of Youth Endowment Fund
· TCB Bank/ Fifth Third Bank Perry County Fund
· Women’s Fund of Perry County
Perry County 4-H Council was awarded $500 to provide hygiene supplies for needy teens at Perry Central and Cannelton schools.
Junior Achievement of West Kentucky, Inc. was awarded $6,000 for the Soft Skills and Financial Literacy programs in Perry County which will deliver soft skills programs for high school students who will then hone those new skills through service learning in elementary classrooms; and $3,500 for all eighth-grade students in Perry County to receive the Work Readiness and Financial Empowerment program that allows students to discover future careers and the correlation between educational attainment and future financial stability.
Leadership Perry County was awarded $15,000 to cover the cost of materials for a newly constructed shelter house at Castle Park.
Perry County Sheriff’s Office was awarded $10,000 to cover expenses for Body Worn Cameras for the officers to wear.
Chemo Buddies was awarded $3,300 to provide comfort kits to Perry County cancer patients.
Youth First, Inc. was awarded $7,000 for Youth First Social Workers embedded in Perry County partner schools to equip students with the skills to build mental health resilience.
Tell City Regional Arts Association was awarded $2,380 to provide materials and low-cost participant fee for Art Camp sessions.
Perry County Public Library was awarded $9,000 to develop a digitized keyword searchable archive of the Perry County newspapers and other local historical documents.
Albion Fellows Bacon Center, Inc. was awarded $1,979.10 to cover the cost of a kitchen over to be placed in the Emergency Shelter.
These grants are made possible by generous donors that created Community Good or Field of Interest Funds with the Perry County Community Foundation.