VCF History

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2006 College Mentors for Kids: $6,000 for a college mentoring program to help elementary school children understand the importance of higher education. Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center: $5,275 for adult day services to enhance participants’ daily living skills so they can achieve personal goals and reach their full potential for independence, regardless of their ability to pay. ECHO Community Health Care: $9,950 to provide an affordable diabetic monitoring program to low-income individuals. Girl Scouts of Raintree Council: $5,000 for an after-school program for at-risk girls in grades K-8 that focuses on selfesteem and self-awareness. Harvest Time Inner City Ministries: $5,000 to buy food and supplies for a soup kitchen that serves about 200 meals every day it is open.

University of Evansville: $3,058.50 for the UE Reads program, which helps K-3rd graders achieve their equivalent reading by the 3rd grade. Youth Resources of Southwestern Indiana: $2,326.15 for the Teen Advisory Council program that helps teens respond to community problems and design community service projects.

2007 Albion Fellows Bacon Center: $10,000 for the children’s program. College Mentors for Kids: $6,000 for Evansville’s College Mentors for Kids program. ECHO Community Health Care: $9,950 for the diabetic monitoring program. Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science: $26,674 for general support.

Leadership Evansville: $4,000 for a youth leadership training program.

Girl Scouts of Raintree Council: $5,000 for Discovering You: A Leadership Development Program.

Little Lambs: $4,870 to purchase car seats and help reduce the infant mortality rate.

Hadi Shrine Temple: $3,315 for the transportation fund.

The Potter’s Wheel: $5,305.35 for equipment and silverware for a soup kitchen, “The Diner,” which served 20,422 meals the previous year. St. Mary’s Foundation: $5,000 for the “Healthy Kids – Healthier Communities” program which provides dental care for children at their schools. Tales & Scales: $6,000 for the “Imagine That” program, which gives instruction on music, theater, and dance techniques for high-poverty-area schools.

Harvest Time Inner City Ministries: $5,000 for food and related supplies for the Hot Food Center. Little Lambs: $4,870 for the car seat project. The Potter’s Wheel: $5,305.35 for The Diner. St. Mary’s Foundation: $5,000 for Healthy Kids — Healthier Communities. Tales & Scales: $6,000 for “Imagine That!” residencies for Evansville schools. Tri-State Food Bank: $7,700 for the Backpack Food for Kids Program.

Tri-State Food Bank: u $7,700 for a backpack program that provides backpacks filled with food for at-risk kids to bring home on the weekends.

University of Evansville’s Office of the President: $3,058.50 for UE Reads.

2007

2007

Ron Glass Endowment Fund for the Evansville African American Museum

2007

Amy W. MacDonnell-Randall T. Shepard Historic Preservation Lecture Fund

James E. & Aleen K. Rankin Endowment Fund

2007

Lois Hamburg Evansville Philharmonic Endowment Fund

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