The Power of Opportunity

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.

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Teacher Excellence Award

The Teacher Excellence Award is one of the highest honors the Foundation can bestow on an individual.  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 15, 2013.