2006 Funded Projects

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

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (Jasper, Indiana)
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.

Holy Redeemer School
Strengthening Families
$42,000
Strengthening Families Program for six churches: Holy Redeemer, Resurrection, St. Benedict, Blue Grass United Methodist, Oasis Assembly of God in Princeton, and Precious Blood in Jasper.

Chapel Hill United Methodist Church
Church Ministry Team Projects
$10,000
Support for Celebrate Recovery, a biblically-based program that deals with recovery from addictive behavior.

Nativity Catholic Church
Juan Diego Latino Center
$45,000
Center  to serve as a centralized location to offer pastoral and outreach for Hispanic persons in Evansville.  Addresses root causes of serious community problems that will develop if the area's growing Hispanic population remains uneducated, lacking basic necessities such as housing, health care, and spiritual support.

St. John The Apostle Catholic Church
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.

North Haven General Baptist Church
Health Ministry
$7,500
Strengthening Families Program with Vogel and Stockwell schools.

St. Paul's United Methodist Church (Poseyville, Indiana)
Reaching Out Afterschool/Summer Program
$25,000
Year-round program for youth ages 10-15 to be in a safe, encouraging after-school environment.

Guadalupe Center (Huntingburg, Indiana)
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
Gibson County Marriage Project
$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 North Posey High School.  Funds for training youth mentors and furnishing a meeting facility for the program.

Young Life Evansville
Middle School Wyldlife Program
$20,000
Continuation of last year's initiative at Harwood, Glenwood and Evans Middle Schools for  mentoring, monthly club, and weekly Bible studies.

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.

Evansville Christian School
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.

Evansville Christian Life Center
Pregnancy Resource Center
$75,000
Renovation of new space to replace their former east side clinic on Weinbach Ave.

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 (Henderson, Kentucky)
Chaplain for Henderson County Detention Center
$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.

Mission of Grace
Food for Thought
$15,000
Educational program to teach low-income persons to be more self-sufficient and healthy.

Media Ministries
Capital Support for Dream Center
$100,000
11,200 square ft. new facility to be located at 16 W. Morgan Ave. to provide a permanent location for their youth programs.

GENERAL OPPORTUNITY
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 Eykamp Scout Center
$100,000
A capital request to fund a portion of the 11,500 square foot Eykamp Scout Center. The facility provides strategic accessibility for youth and families, a new training and Conference Center, new Outdoor Program Center, an expanded Scout Shop as well as a larger Resource Room and Library.

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 Evansville, Indiana
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 Vanderburgh County
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 Warrick Education Center and Castle Jr. High and High Schools. The Strengthening Families program is research-based with intervention strategies that address the root causes of drug, alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and parenting skills. Youth First, Inc. will serve as facilitator for the Strengthening Families program and will provide the training.

Youth First, Inc.
Substance Abuse Intervention Project
$412,000
Funding Mission of the program is to reduce substance abuse by coordinating community resources to provide prevention and early intervention for youth and their families.  This includes using proven programs that seek to reach the root causes most associated with substance abuse among young people, including poor decision-making skills, peer pressure, lack of family support/supervision and inappropriate role models. Program examples include the Strengthening Families, Reconnecting Youth and the Adventure Based Challenge programs. This year, YF is seeking support to implement Project SUCCESS and Why Try, two new research-based substance abuse prevention andearly intervention approaches. These funds will be used to support the various staff and programs of Youth First.

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 (Cannelton, Indiana)
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.

Buffalo Trace Council
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 (Henderson, Kentucky)
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
Diabetic Care Management Center
$190,000
Continuing support for diabetes center for the final six months of need originally projected by ECHO.

Southwestern Indiana Regional Perinatal Advisory Board
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 Place Pregnancy Resource Center (Henderson, Kentucky)
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 a nutrition and fitness initiative for 6 elementary (Caze, Cedar Hall, Dexter, Fairlawn, Highland, Lincoln) and 2 middle schools (Helfrich Park and Plaza Park) within the EVSC.

SPECIAL GRANT
DONALD B. COX MEMORIAL GRANT
American Red Cross, Southwestern Indiana Chapter
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)