Welborn Baptist
Foundation, Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marjorie
Soyugenc
Executive
Director and CEO
Welborn
Baptist Foundation, Inc.
(812)
437-8260
Welborn Baptist Foundation, Inc. Announces
2006 Grant Awards;
Cumulative Strategic Grantmaking approaches
$22 million mark
Evansville, Indiana -
Welborn Baptist Foundation, Inc. has awarded forty-two (42) grants to
tri-state not-for-profit organizations, totaling approximately $3.13 million
for programs within the Foundation’s target areas of Promotion of Early
Childhood Development, Promotion of Healthy Adolescent Development, Faith-Based
Programs, Improvements In Community Health Status and
School-Based Health Programs. With the $18.8 million granted by the Foundation
between 2000 and 2005, this year’s grants bring total Foundation support to
$21.94 million dollars to secular and faith-based not for profits in a fourteen
county area of
“This is the culmination of a process that began in March of this year.
Initially, we received 122 letters of interest requesting more than $8.8
million dollars. We reduced that number to 52 projects that were requested to
submit full proposals. After much careful consideration, we have arrived at
these forty-two grants. We believe these grants represent the very best in
efforts to improve the health and well-being of infants, children and adults in
our community”, said Foundation Board Chairman John M. Dunn. “The organizations
receiving these grants have overwhelmingly demonstrated their ability to
contribute to community health and the immense need for their services”, Dunn
said.
Funds for 2006 are distributed as follows:
|
Promotion of Early Childhood Development |
515,000 |
|
Faith Based Programs |
649,000 |
|
General |
442,250 |
|
Promotion of Healthy Adolescent Development |
963,200 |
|
Improvements in Community Health Status |
392,850 |
|
School-Based Health and |
175,000 |
|
Total 2006 Welborn Baptist Foundation Funding |
$3,137,300 |
“Our interests continue to be in efforts that make a meaningful
difference in individual lives and in the collective health of our community.
Among our goals is to raise awareness about those actions and activities that
will result in healthier choices and healthier lives. These projects help us do
that”, said Marjorie Z. Soyugenc, Welborn Baptist Foundation Executive Director
and CEO. “We have found those projects to be of the highest quality, consistent
with the goals, objectives and mission of the Foundation and worthy of our
support. There is a discipline of accountability in every grant award made in
that all grant recipients must complete an approved evaluation component.”
As was the case in 2005, the Foundation designated the Donald B. Cox Memorial Grant of $50,000 award to
the American Red Cross - Southwestern Indiana
Chapter. The funds will be used to place automated
external defibrillators in public facilities throughout the community. The
award is named for Mr. Donald B. Cox, a
former Foundation Chairman, who died in 2005.
Welborn Baptist Foundation is the not-for-profit, private foundation
created in 1999 from the sale of Welborn Baptist Hospital to St. Mary’s Medical
Center and from additional assets of the hospital. The Foundation provides
grants to not-for profit organizations that significantly contribute to
community health in a fourteen county area of
WELBORN BAPTIST FOUNDATION
SUMMARY OF GRANTS AWARDED 2006
EARLY
CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Goals: The Welborn Foundation believes that early childhood
development is critical to a child's academic success as he/she prepares to
enter the school environment. Because school readiness is influenced by many
factors, the foundation is encouraging programs that invest not only at the
level of the child, but also support the family, schools, and neighborhoods.
GRANTS AWARDED: 1
Grant totaling $515,000
Community Coordinated Child Care (4C) of Southern Indiana, Inc.
Child Care Quality Initiative
$515,000
Continuation of the programs initiated in 2005 to improve the overall quality
of child care in nine of the Foundation's fourteen counties. The funding will
be used to conduct a range of activities including:
1. Paths To Quality - a laddered, voluntary rating system
designed to encourage child care providers to take steps to improve the quality
of child care service they provide.
2. Mentoring Services related to the Paths to Quality program - a
set of complementary services that will enhance the Paths to Quality effort.
3. Continuity of Care - implementation of a program to strengthen
the relationships between caregivers, parents and children.
4. Resource Library - Staff and equipment for the Resource
Library
5. Early Childhood Education - an effort to improve the qualifications
of caregivers.
6. Leadership Retreats - a series of gathering focused on
developing the skills and relationships among providers.
7. Parent Education – Utilizing the
research-based Active Parenting program, provide a vehicle through which
adults and parents can learn about early childhood development,
interactions, environments and guidance.
FAITH-BASED OTHER
Goals: The Foundation recognizes the unique role that churches and
faith-based organization play in addressing a host of important community
issues. The Foundation continues to cultivate a strong interest in health
ministries and encourages the efforts of church and faith-based organizations
in areas such as adolescent development, family support and spiritual
development.
GRANTS AWARDED: 8 Grants totaling $209,500
Health Ministry
Support
$20,000
Health ministry outreach to congregations in
Dubois and surrounding counties with focus on health literacy education, a
'Heart Healthy' program targeting nutrition and exercise, and a
spiritually-based hand-washing program for children to decrease the spread of
contagious disease.
Strengthening
Families
$42,000
Strengthening Families Program for six
churches: Holy Redeemer, Resurrection, St. Benedict, Blue Grass United
Methodist, Oasis Assembly of God in
Church Ministry
Team Projects
$10,000
Support for Celebrate Recovery, a biblically-based program that deals
with recovery from addictive behavior.
Nativity
Catholic Church
$45,000
Center to serve as a centralized location
to offer pastoral and outreach for Hispanic persons in
SOUL Empowerment
$45,000
Continuation of low-cost exercise and
nutrition for low-income inner city residents, with increasing focus on
overcoming youth obesity by offering an after-school program Monday thru
Thursday.
Health Ministry
$7,500
Strengthening
Families Program with Vogel and Stockwell schools.
Reaching Out Afterschool/Summer Program
$25,000
Year-round program
for youth ages 10-15 to be in a safe, encouraging after-school environment.
Hispanic Youth
Training
$15,000
Spanish-language
leadership and faith formation program for Hispanic youth and adults.
FAITH-BASED
INITIATIVES
Goals: The Foundation recognizes the unique role that churches and
faith-based organization play in addressing a host of important community
issues. The Foundation continues to cultivate a strong interest in programs
that emphasize evangelism in addressing youth development, family support and
spiritual development.
GRANTS AWARDED: 10 Grants totaling $439,500
Community
Marriage Builders
$9,500
One year of funds
to be applied to the matching requirement of the federal grant received by CMB
for a marriage preservation program serving Vanderburgh, Gibson, Warrick, and
Posey Counties in Indiana.
Young Life of
Posey County
Young Life
Program for North Posey High School
$20,000
Teen substance
abuse prevention program, initiated at a new location at
Young Life
Middle School Wyldlife Program
$20,000
Continuation
of last year's initiative at Harwood, Glenwood and
Churches
Embracing Offenders, Inc.
Faith-Based
Re-Entry Program
$25,000
Expansion
of faith-based services to help ex-offenders return to the community and not
re-offend.
Provides assistance with developing goals and plan to become independent,
educational, employment, housing, and other personal resources.
Facility
Construction and Renovation
$100,000
Construction
of 10,700 sq. ft. wing on their east campus and renovation of 2,600 sq. ft. of
existing space.
$75,000
Renovation
of new space to replace their former east side clinic on
TTT Christian
Youth Ministries, Inc.
Project Proclaim
$50,000
Peer evangelism
training for students in high school, middle school, or junior high.
Good News Jail
& Prison Ministry (
Chaplain for
$25,000
Full-time chaplain
to coordinate all religious programs such as 12-Step,
mentoring, etc. and staff to keep records and create community awareness.
Food for Thought
$15,000
Educational program
to teach low-income persons to be more self-sufficient and healthy
Media Ministries
Capital Support
for
$100,000
11,200
square ft. new facility to be located at
GENERAL
Goals: Although targeted interests receive the majority of
available funds, Welborn Baptist Foundation considers other worthy
opportunities that fit within its chosen domains of health, social environment,
and education.
Grants awarded : 6 grants totaling $442,500
Buffalo Trace Council
Capital Funding for the
$100,000
A capital request to fund a portion of the
11,500 square foot
FACILITY DEDICATED AND OPENED FEBRUARY 2005.
YMCA of Southwestern Indiana, Inc.
Capital Funding
for the Dunigan Family YMCA
$100,000
Funding to support the construction of the Dunigan Family YMCA.
FACILITY DEDICATED AND OPENED IN JANUARY 2005.
Hands On Discovery, Inc. (now Koch Children’s Museum of Evansville, Inc.)
Capital Campaign for Children’s Museum
$100,000
Funding for an interactive exhibit on health
and nutrition education within the new museum.
FACILITY DEDICATED AND OPENED IN SEPTEMBER 2006.
Boys & Girls Club of
Fundraising Manager
$35,000
Funding to hire and support a full-time fundraising manager to implement
their board-approved action plan to improve sustainability.
Right to Life of
Teens for Life
$32,250
Program
coordinator and focus groups to recruit and train teens to promote the concept
of human life from conception to natural death, and increase circulation of
their publication.
Evansville
African-American Museum, Inc.
Museum
development support
$75,000
Funding
to support additional planning and development for the museum.
PROMOTION OF HEALTHY ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
Goals: Adolescence is a time when adolescents are laying the
groundwork for their future health and well-being. The decisions
adolescents make about nutrition, physical activity, drugs, alcohol, tobacco,
sex, and relationships affect their health and well-being, both immediately and
into their adult years.
Teenagers’ openness to new experiences also means that adolescence is the time
of life when 70% of the behaviors that place young people at risk begin.
Grants awarded : 9 grants totaling $963,200
Young Women's Christian Association
Live Y'ers Program
$80,000
Continued support for this pregnancy prevention program for girls.
Program is currently operating at four schools (Culver, Lodge, Glenwood and Bosse). The expansion will increase and enhance
after-school programs for all four schools. Secondary goals of the
program include prevention of substance abuse and increased likelihood of
education past high school.
Holly's
House, Inc.
Advocacy center
development
$200,000
Funding
to establish an advocacy center for victims of rape, child abuse, domestic
violence, child molestation and child neglect.
Warrick County
School Corporation
Strengthening
Families Program
$65,700
Funding for implementation of 10
Strengthening Families programs and the 'Why Try' program at the
Youth First, Inc.
Substance Abuse
Intervention Project
$412,000
Funding
Girl Scouts of Raintree Council
The Deak Project
$91,000
Funding for the development of a curriculum and model program for
children, adult volunteers and parents based upon recent brain research. The prinicpal consultant on this program is JoAnn Deak, Ph.D.,
a psychologist and preventive and systems intervention specialist.
ECHO Housing
Corp.
Strengthening
Families Program for Children Ages 6-9
$7,000
This is a 14 week behavior skills training program that will be
conducted for the families of Lucas Place Transitional Housing facility. The
focus is on improving communication between
parents and children. Parents will focus on clear communication, effective
discipline, substance use, problem solving and limit setting. Children will
focus on anger control, resisting peer pressure, compliance with parental
rules, problem solving and communicating effectively.
Cannelton
City Schools (
Strengthening
Families
$7,500
Funding for the Strengthening Families 10-14
program for adolescents in the Cannelton area.
Marian Day
School, d.b.a Marian Educational Outreach
Special
Education and Project Outreach
$75,000
Continued placement of two special education teachers and comprehensive
professional development for all faculty members, combined with a proposal to
fund specialized training for general education teachers to respond to the
increasing numbers of students with special learning needs. Focus is on
differentiated instruction, brain compatibility instructional strategies, and
multi-sensory reading/writing.
Scoutreach
Program
$25,000
Continued expansion of Scoutreach
programs that provide after-school scouting for Cub Scouts and new troops for
youth 11-14 years of age.
Funds to support volunteers, fees, program supplies and
activities.
IMPROVEMENTS
TO COMMUNITY HEALTH STATUS
Goals: It is
known that persons' longevity and quality of life are affected by the
environmental and population characteristics of their community. In
addition, certain socioeconomic and health status indicators reflect
county-level health-related quality of life issues.
Those indicators include infant mortality, a health status outcome commonly
used as an overall measure of the health and quality of life in the community,
since it often reflects disparities in income, education, and access to health
care services. Several other health status measures reflect social, education,
and economic differences, including African American breast and cervical cancer
rates, and injury and death due to violence in the community.
GRANTS AWARDED: 6 grants totaling $342,850
Matthew 25 AIDS Services (
Health Risk
Assessment Tool
$3,250
Health risk assessment software to evaluate and target clients by their
risk for developing preventable chronic diseases
ECHO Community
Health Care
$190,000
Continuing support for diabetes center for
the final six months of need originally projected by ECHO.
RPAB Coordinator
$42,500
Continuation of efforts to decrease Vanderburgh County's infant
mortality rate, focusing more closely on developing a perinatal
surveillance system that will serve as an early warning system for problems
developing within the prenatal care system.
Marsha's
Promoting
Positive Pregnancies
$10,000
Program that helps educate pregnant women about nutrition and the
negative effects of substance abuse and smoking. Initiates earlier
prenatal care and helping women obtain medical cards. Expansion will
include more mental health counseling.
Tri-State
Multiple Sclerosis Association, Inc.
CARE Program
$52,100
Development of program to provide respite
and support to family caregivers of persons with multiple sclerosis. Services would include personal care
assistance, transportation, and other services.
Tulip Tree
Health Services of Gibson County, Inc.
Dental Program
$45,000
Support for existing dental clinic to implement dental hygiene education
and add a part-time dentist to provide basic dental care.
SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH PROGRAMS
Goals: School-based health programs have evolved to include far-reaching
goals which integrate health care, health education and preventative efforts,
mental health, and social services, all in an effort to improve children’s
success in school and life. Successful models often work through
family-community-school partnerships.
GRANTS AWARDED: 1 Grants totaling $175,000
Evansville-Vanderburgh
School Corporation
Healthy Outlook
$175,000
Implementation
of nutrition and fitness initiative for 6 elementary (Caze,
Cedar Hall, Dexter, Fairlawn,
SPECIAL GRANT
DONALD B. COX MEMORIAL GRANT
American Red Cross,
Automated External Defibrillator Project
$50,000
The Red Cross has been awarded $50,000 that will be used for the
purchase and installation of twenty (20) automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and twenty (20) pediatric starter kits and training
for 200 people. The defibrillators will be located in public facilities
throughout the community
Total grants $3,137,300
(including Cox Memorial Grant)