photo courtesy Legacy Fund
Hamilton Heights students Anna Shinness, Sydney Gruntler and Spencer Loomis use a flip video camera (from their education foundation) to help learn a foreign language.
sponsorships for golf or other events. • An individual, family or business can establish a new fund. They decide whether it will provide scholarships or grants. Funding is then provided in the form of cash, appreciated assets, a multiple-year pledge, or a bequest through an estate plan. Gifts can be provided annually or the fund can become endowed. The donor then works with the foundation to help make distribution decisions. • Accounts are held at the Legacy Fund, which invests the funds and makes distributions, simplifying the administration for the educational foundation and donors.
Hamilton County’s Only Locally Owned Bank 830 Logan Street • Noblesville • 773-0800 8 Convenient Hamilton County Locations cbindianaonline.com
Jan Skinner, Executive Director of the Westfield Education Foundation summarizes, “Contributions, no matter how large or small, greatly impact an education foundation’s ability to reach new levels of giving. By working together with caring individuals and businesses, we can achieve great success in providing educational opportunities for the youth in our communities.”
Education Fund Contacts Carmel ~ Dorothy Ilgen dotilgen@aol.com ~ 317.844.9961 Hamilton Heights ~ Jane Hunter jane@hamiltonnorthchamber.com; 317.385.9025 Hamilton Southeastern ~ Lisa Allen hsefoundation@hse.k12.in.us; 317.594.4100 Noblesville ~ Sharon Trisler sharon_trisler@nobl.k12.in.us; 317.773.3171
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Westfield ~ Jan Skinner skinnerjan@aol.com; ~ 317.857.8085 Mark Robbins is vice president of the Legacy Fund. Contact him at markr@cicf.org Hamilton County Business Magazine/August • September 2011
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