Greene County Foundation
     
 
 
  • Lilly Scholars Kevin and Laura (Correll) Cross have returned to return the community's investment in them
     
     
  • A special cake featured the artwork of one of the nominees Norma Witherspoon
     
     
  • The event included lunch, entertainment and fellowship
     
     
  • Families andFriends came out to recognize, congratulate and support the women
     
     
  • Twenty one women were recognized at the first annual Oustanding Women's Luncheon
     
     
  • New Board members for 2012 , Patty Jones, Sara Plunkett, Kevin Kramer, Pete Halstead, Todd Walton
     
     
  • Foundation Board Officers 2012
     
    Linda Thomas, President, Kim Hughes Secretary, Brian Steward, Vice President, Scott Powers, Treasurer 

Tourism Training

  Another session of the Tourism for local business training will take place at the Old Bank on June 28th.  Lunch will be provided, as well as an overview, handouts, and slide presentation on the economic benefits of Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area.   Becoming informed about Goose Pond in order to answer visitors questions  can ”sell”  this area as a friendly and hospitable place to visit.  Items and services tourists and visitors seek, as well as other suggestions  on ways local business can benefit from tourism opportunities will also be discussed.     This lunch is  in time for the July 4th weekend which draws many to the area.   Contact the Foundation to reserve your seat for this free informational luncheon.   659-3142    The event is sponsored by the Friends of Goose Pond, in conjunction with the Greene County Foundation and underwritten by the Smithville Charitiable Foundation.

Welcome

Established in 1997, the Greene County Foundation serves the people of the Greene County community as a public charity. A volunteer board of directors governs the Foundation, whose makeup is as diverse as the community it serves. The Foundation has more than $4 million in assets and has granted more than $9 million since its inception. Over the last eight years, the Foundation has had a philanthropic impact on every school, town, city and informal community in Greene County through multiple forms of donation such as permanent endowments, special projects funds, trusts, memorials and honoraria.  Donations of any size can be used to fund any of the seventy six endowed funds or twenty six scholarship funds.  Look under the funds page for a complete listing.  Support of the unrestricted fund allows the foundation to focus grants on the most immediate community needs which change from year to year.   Donations of cash, stock, real estate, life insurance, etc can be converted to address community needs, and all donations are tax deductible.

Foundation Announces New Officers

Dr. Brian Steward has become the new President of the Greene County Board of Directors, with Linda Thomas, Ivy Tech Community Learning Center  as VP,  Ed Cullison, Farmer’s &  Mechanics Bank as Secreatry, and  Dr. Scott Powers as Treasurer.  Other board members include:  Risa Dyar Dyar Real Estate, Jacob Fish,  Attorney, Jarrod Holtsclaw, Prosecutor Greene County,   Kim Hughes, SAIC  and Dan Sichting , Bloomfield School District.

Congratulations Seth Herndon

Seth Herndon has been selected as the 2011 Lilly Scholarship winner.  Seth a senior at Linton High school was selected from five finalists and thirty initial applicants.  Due to rising college costs the number of  Lilly scholarships available to counties throughout the state was reduced making the competition for the annual award very stiff.  

Seth plan to attend Purdue University and major in engineering.  Seth has been activite in school, church and community activities.

Roy Clark Show Update

  Roy Clark and his Friends will  be unable to attend the Roy Clark weekend  held in Linton the first weekend in June.     Roy will be doing a Hee Haw reunion show in Nashville TN.   Plans for next year’s show are currently up in the air.   

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