Two community grants from the Unrestricted Fund enabled Westminster Community Center to offer new opportunities for people to become more self-sufficient through learning key life skills. The first grant for a community garden fosters the age-old skill of gardening to produce edible vegetables and fruits.
When the grants committee approved a grant for a thermal imaging camera, they did not realize how quickly this camera would benefit a local family. Within two months of receiving the thermal imaging camera, Spiceland volunteer fire fighters were called to a house fire during the night.
The Teens About Serving the County (TASC) Youth Grants Committee provided grants to help fund a PureFun event, an Empty Bowls fundraiser, and the Henry County Sheriff's Youth Camp among other programs.
Transformation is evident to anyone who visits Middletown or speaks to members of its grant-receiving organizations or the many community-minded residents who have helped fund community grants through donations to the Unrestricted Fund.
Graduating from New Castle High School with the class of 1950, Herb started college at Wabash but it was interrupted by the Korean conflict. After serving two years in the U. S. Army, he returned to his college career at Ball State University where he earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in education.
During the Shenandoah honor program, Henry County Community Foundation Executive Director Jerry Schaeffer presented the 2009 Teacher Excellence Award to Mr. Rick Penn.
The Henry County Community Foundation introduced new tools and programs. These tools for communication and growth will allow the Foundation to more easily, quickly and cost effectively keep donors, grantees, and scholarship recipients informed of Community Foundation opportunities.
Confirmed in Compliance with National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations
Teacher Excellence Award
The
Teacher Excellence Award is one of the highest honors the Foundation can bestow
on an individual. The award consists of
a significant cash award and a memento presented at an appropriate
ceremony. The honor is designed to
recognize teachers who have demonstrated an unusual commitment to inspire
students to reach for difficult and lofty goals. Persons nominated will have earned the
respect of students, parents and peers through sustained effort, high moral
standards and the likelihood of enduring beneficial effects on the students
with which they have worked.
Any
current full-time teacher of a not-for-profit school within Henry County is
eligible for nomination. Any persons
including parents, students, peers and citizens of the community may make
nominations. Someone who has had a
direct experience with the nominee must submit the nomination form.
A
nomination form may be obtained by downloading here
or
may be picked up at any of the school administration offices in each of the
school corporations. Questions
concerning the award nomination process should be addressed in writing to: Henry County Community Foundation, PO Box
6006, New Castle, IN 47362.
Teacher
Excellence Award Criteria
Preference will be given to
nominations with the following characteristics:
1. The basis for nomination is consistent
with the aims of the School Corporation (inspirational teaching, coaching,
counseling or other service to students).
2. The nomination addresses the
extraordinary aspects of the nominee (exceptional creativity, extraordinary
commitment to students, enduring interest and encouragement for the attainment
of worthy objectives, exemplary character, role model, etc.).
3. The nomination contains examples of
the worthiness of the nominee.
Nomination
Procedures:
The
nominator should mail the Teacher Excellence Award Nomination form to the Foundation
at the address above (Attn: Teacher Excellence Award Program) by no later than
April 16, 2010.
