Giving Tuesday set for Dec. 3

Save the date

September 24, 2024

The Community Foundation of Jackson County

 

Save the date: December 3, 2024. That’s the date this year for Giving Tuesday, a local and national effort to promote giving to charity and giving back to one’s community during the holiday season.

On Giving Tuesday people are encouraged to donate to charity following the shopping frenzies of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Your Giving Tuesday gifts to the Community Foundation of Jackson County can help make a difference in perpetuity through the earnings of endowed funds that benefit people and programs throughout Jackson County.

That could include giving to any of the local nonprofit agency funds administered at the Foundation that benefit the United Way of Jackson County, Boys & Girls Club of Seymour, Girls Inc. of Jackson County, Childcare Network, Turning Point Domestic Violence Services, Community Provisions of Jackson County, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Jackson County History Center, Jackson County Public Library and Developmental Services Inc.

You may also donate to any of the Foundation’s existing scholarship funds, unrestricted funds, designated funds and field of interest funds.

For information, call the Foundation at 812-523-4483 or send an email to president@cfjacksoncounty.org. Information may be found on the Foundation’s website at www.cfjacksoncounty.org or on its Facebook page.

Rumpke Waste & Recycling serves annual community picnic

Gifts from company fund grants in Carr, Owen townships

September 23, 2024

The Community Foundation of Jackson County

Rumpke Waste & Recycling welcomed more than 120 neighbors to the Medora Landfill for its 28th annual community picnic on September 18.

The meal included fried fish prepared by members of the Carr Township Conservation Club, sides from Pewter Hall and ice cream from Kovener’s Korner. Several attendees also brought side dishes and desserts to share.

In addition to the meal, the event also featured live music, door prizes and landfill and recycling center tours, where guests learned about the history of the site, daily operations and future development plans.  

“The picnic is a longstanding tradition we cherish and look forward to year after year,” said Brad Marlow, manager of the landfill. “What started in 1996 as a small gathering has grown to become a family reunion of sorts, featuring longtime neighbors, community partners and even former and current employees. We’re grateful for the opportunity to welcome folks to our site for an evening of food and fun, while also showcasing our operations.”  

The event concluded with an awards presentation to recognize the best dishes of the evening. Rumpke presented the Sylvia England Golden Fork Award for best side dish to Dessie Byarlay for her apple cranberry slaw. Valerie Miller earned the Peggy Thompson Golden Spoon Award for her dessert, persimmon pudding.

The Medora Landfill opened in 1971 and was purchased by Rumpke in 1983. Today, the site provides environmentally sound disposal for the southern Indiana and Kentuckiana region. The landfill is permitted to accept up to 3,000 tons of waste daily.

Rumpke’s Medora Recycling Center, located near the landfill, processes approximately 700 tons of material each month. Recyclable material is collected from residential, commercial and industrial customers. Some recyclables are transported directly to in-state manufacturers to create new products, while Rumpke transports the remaining items to its regional recycling facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, for processing.

Giving back

Rumpke makes a quarterly gift to two funds administered by the Community Foundation of Jackson County: The Owen-Carr Township Community Fund and the Owen-Carr Township Community Endowment.

The Owen-Carr Township Community Fund provides grant dollars on a quarterly basis in Carr and Owen townships. The Owen-Carr Township Community Endowment provides an annual grant each spring into the Community Fund.

To learn more about how your gift to the Community Foundation of Jackson County can make a positive difference in Jackson County, call President & CEO Dan Davis at 812-523-4483 or send an email to president@cfjacksoncounty.org.

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Dan Davis is president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Jackson County, 107 Community Drive, Seymour, IN 47274. For information about donating to the Foundation, call 812-523-4483 or send an email to president@cfjacksoncounty.org.

ABOVE: Guests gather for Rumpke Waste & Recycling’s community picnic at the Medora Landfill on September 18.

Information please

For more information about Rumpke or to schedule a facility tour, call 1-800-828-8171 or visit www.rumpke.com.

BELOW: Rumpke also operates a recycling center at the Medora landfill.

Gift of Grain sows future grants

Green vs. Red contest underway, too

September 1, 2024

By DAN DAVIS // President & CEO

The Community Foundation of Jackson County

School is back in session.

Friday night lights are burning as the Braves and Owls hit the grid iron and marching bands roll out their new shows.

Some leaves are already turning brown and fluttering to the ground.

Seymour Oktoberfest and Fort Vallonia Days are just around the corner. Yes, autumn is quickly approaching.

And the fall harvest is kicking into gear with many Jackson County farmers putting their combines to work, harvesting their corn and soybean crops.

Farmers will transfer bushels and bushels of corn and beans from field to farm to grain buyers, food processors and eventually to our grocers and our own kitchen tables.

They hope this growing season has been a good one, producing a good yield. The Community Foundation of Jackson County hopes so, too, for the benefit of our farmers and our community in general. That’s because farmers and the agri-business sector represent a strong, vibrant part of our economy and community. Many of our friends and neighbors are employed directly or indirectly by farming and the businesses that help keep them operating.

Each harvest season, the Foundation makes a tool available to area farmers to help support the community — the Giving a Gift of Grain program.

Participating in Gift of Grain is simple and can take place at participating elevators – Premier Ag in Brownstown, Bundy Brothers at Medora, Rose Acre Farms at Cortland, Tampico Grain near Crothersville and White River Nutrition near Cortland.

Gifts can benefit the area’s agricultural community through grants to programs such as 4-H and scholarship funds such as the Premier Companies/Bob Myers Memorial Scholarship and the Jackson County Veterinary Scholarship.

They can also benefit our community in general through the Fall Grant cycle with gifts to unrestricted funds. D&B Pfaffenberger & Sons Grain of Seymour have done just that the last several years with donations to the Foundation’s Community Fund.

“It’s just the right thing to do – giving back whenever you can,” Mike Pfaffenberger said.

Donald Schnitker of Cortland plans to again make a Gift of Grain this year. It again will be directed to the Orville and Mary Schnitker Memorial Endowment, which was started in December 2016 by Schnitker and his sisters, Lois Bryden and Lora Willey, to honor their parents.

He joined the Foundation’s Board of Directors in April 2021, but he’s been a Gift of Grain giver since its inception.

“In these times, many people in our area have basic needs that are unmet,” said Schnitker, who serves as the Foundation’s chair of the Grant Committee. “Giving through the Foundation helps make an impact in improving the overall well-being of our community.”

Schnitker encourages all farmers to consider contributing to the Gift of Grain. 

A farmer’s grain donations also count as votes in the good-natured Head-To-Head: Green vs. Red contest.

The Foundation also invites tractor enthusiasts to stand up and vote – with their donations — for their favorite implements in the Head to Head: Green vs. Red competition this fall.

A $25 donation entitles the donor to cast one vote for their favorite equipment line. A $100 donation entitles the donor to five votes. You can vote in our office or online by going to cfjacksoncounty.org and clicking on the “Donate Now” button.

Just one more thing – let’s be careful out there as those lumbering combines, grain trucks and trailers make their way along area roads as farmers hustle to bring in their harvest.

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Dan Davis is president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Jackson County, 107 Community Drive, Seymour, IN 47274. For information about donating to the Foundation, call 812-523-4483 or send an email to president@cfjacksoncounty.org.

Information, please

For information about the Giving a Gift of Grain program, or its companion program, Giving a Gift of Livestock, contact the Community Foundation of Jackson County at 812-523-4483, or send an email to president@cfjacksoncounty.org. We’ll be happy to work with you as you harvest your crops and sow the seeds to help us grow better tomorrows. Stored grain may be donated any time of the year, by the way.

Fall Grant deadline nears

Applications due by July 31

July 19, 2024

The Community Foundation of Jackson County

The deadline for filing an application for our Fall Grant cycle is July 31. Don’t miss it.

Applications are online at our website. Click on “GRANTS” in the toolbar above.

Bequest increases grant dollars available for the arts

Application deadline: July 31

June 18, 2024

The Community Foundation of Jackson County

A man’s love for the arts prompted his family to establish a fund in his honor, and nonprofit organizations can repay that love by applying for a Fall Grant and putting grant dollars to work in our community.

The deadline is July 31.

The Donald J. Klaes Music & the Performing Arts Fund was established at the Community Foundation of Jackson County in December 2020 following his death.

“Don was a graduate of Indiana University, and throughout his life he continued his musical education well beyond his degree,” his sister Julie Bradley of Brownstown said.

Don was a graduate of Seymour High School, and he served in the U.S. Army from 1982 to 1985, playing with the U.S. Army Band while stationed in Germany. In addition to his work with local bands and community theater, he had played in the worship band at Seymour Christian Church and The Alley Church. He was an avid chess player and a long-time employee at Mactac in Columbus.

“Don was a gifted keyboard player who was well known for his playing in several groups, churches, and with the Jackson County Community Theatre,” Dr. Chris Klaes said of his younger brother. “His talents were enjoyed by many as a member of the Ang Trio, the Elements of Jazz, and the Sound of Dreams. He also was an actor in multiple plays with JCCT.”

Creation of the Donald J. Klaes Music & the Performing Arts Fund as a field-of-interest fund will allow the Foundation to automatically provide more grant dollars to support the arts across Jackson County. That is, of course, if nonprofits apply for a grant. You must apply in order to receive a grant.

The Fall Grant cycle is the Foundation’s annual competitive grant process. Grants are funded with earnings from community funds – also known as unrestricted funds – and field-of-interest funds. Last year, the overall Fall Grant cycle paid out $125,138 in 2023, providing funds for 21 grants. This year, the Foundation expects to have more than $137,000 in funds for the Fall Grant cycle.

Nonprofits, churches and governmental units can apply for a Fall Grant. Applications may be found online at the Foundation’s website, cfjacksoncounty.org.

The Foundation has long supported the arts in Jackson County through the Fall Grant cycle, but this new field-of-interest fund boosts targeted giving toward the arts. The Foundation joins the Klaes family in eagerly awaiting to see how Don’s love for the arts continues as a living legacy.

Remember, the deadline is July 31.

Donald J. Klaes

How to help

You, too, can help provide grant dollars for the arts by making a gift to the Donald J. Klaes Music & the Performing Arts Fund. Your gifts, large and small, can help grow the grant amount available. For information or to make a donation, call the Foundation at 812-523-4483. Gifts may also be made online at www.cfjacksoncounty.org by clicking on DONATE NOW. Gifts may also be mailed to the Foundation at Post Office Box 1231, Seymour, IN 47274.

Counties study child-care needs

Jackson, Jennings and Bartholomew  foundations combine efforts in Lilly Endowment GIFT VIII planning grant process

March 11, 2024

The Community Foundation of Jackson County

Representatives of the community foundations in Jackson, Jennings and Bartholomew counties recently gathered with other local partners at the Community Foundation of Jackson County to discuss child-care needs in the region.

The foundations are teaming to develop a Lilly Endowment Inc. GIFT VIII grant application to help move the needle forward in the area of child care on a regional basis.

The convening followed three town hall-style meetings in Columbus, North Vernon and Seymour that brought child-care providers, parents and others together to discuss how to lift up child-care delivery in our three counties. A regional Lilly Endowment Inc. GIFT VIII Planning Grant is funding this work. A goal is developing a plan to help providers and families overcome their barriers.

“We are pleased to join Heritage Fund of Bartholomew County and the Jennings County Community Foundation to collectively examine what is working, what is challenging us and how we might collectively help move child care in our communities forward,” Community Foundation of Jackson County President and CEO Dan Davis said. “We are convinced that child care is as much of a workforce issue as it is a family issue for many in the community.”

Heritage Fund President and CEO Tracy Souza said the objective for this work was summed up well in the grant application to Lilly Endowment.

“Reliable, developmentally appropriate, dependable and affordable child care lays a strong foundation for the future development of children, enables caregivers to work and provide for their families and empowers employers to thrive,” Souza said.

Jennings County Community Foundation Executive Director Kelly Kent is excited about the work taking place.

“What a great opportunity we have been given by Lilly to hear from families, employers and child care providers about the hurdles they face in our communities for child care,” she said. “By collaborating with Bartholomew and Jackson counties, we can begin working together to incorporate new ideas and overcome the challenges facing the families and businesses in our community.”

Input from the three community meetings are being curated to help shape a regional grant proposal.

ABOVE: From left, Tracy Souza of The Heritage Fund The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County and Amber Fischvogt and Kelly Kent of the Jennings County Community Foundation discuss comments collected at recent town hall-style convenings focused on the barriers confronting child-care providers, parents and other community partners.

ABOVE: Community partners from Jackson, Jennings and Bartholomew counties review findings from three recent community meetings in Columbus, North Vernon and Seymour as a part of Lilly Endowment Inc. GIFT VIII Planning Grant work in the region.

Lilly grant funds mental health summit

Foundation partners with Healthy Jackson County, Schneck

February 19, 2024

The Community Foundation of Jackson County

The Community Foundation of Jackson County joined with Schneck Medical Center and Healthy Jackson County to stage the second Jackson County Mental Health Summit on Feb. 8 at Camp Pyoca.

The Foundation funded the second health summit through a Lilly Endowment Inc. GIFT VIII Planning Grant, President & CEO Dan Davis said.

“The Foundation is eager to learn how it might be able to support efforts to confront the mental health and substance use disorder challenges that face our community,” Davis said. “Helping bring the summit together to review the current state of things, where we need to be and what needs to be done to get us there is important for everyone in the community.”

Lindsay Sarver with Healthy Jackson County said the summit was about celebrating the different things that are here now that weren’t here a year ago when the first Mental Health Summit was staged.

The meeting included reports and breakout sessions to receive feedback about local solutions to challenges revolving around mental health and substance use disorder.

Sarver said anyone who thinks they have not been touched by mental health issues is either not paying attention or not telling the truth.

“I think half of all adults are going to have a mental illness at one point in their lifetime, even if it is not chronic, because depression and anxiety is for everybody,” said Sarver. “I joke sometimes that I don’t struggle with anxiety. It comes very naturally. There’s plenty to be anxious about in this world.”

After Schneck President and CEO Dr. Eric Fish gave some welcoming remarks, Meghan Warren with the Healthy Jackson County coalition spoke about its work.

“Our goal is really to be able to create and sustain more of a healthy environment and create positive outcomes,” she said. That goal is achieved by the organization’s workgroup. Besides the mental health and substance use group, other groups focus on nutritional and physical activity, feeding the community and Hispanic health.

Kristy Day, director of the emergency department at Schneck, talked about the success of a warm-handoff program for patients experiencing a drug overdose. Day said community health workers and peer recovery coaches Gleeda Lasher and Sara Bowling deserve credit for a lot of the program’s success.

“Without Sara and Gleeda, this wouldn’t be possible,” Day said. “They went above and beyond for all our patients. We have seen an over 50% reduction in overdoses.”

Indiana Health Centers CEO Ann Lundy spoke about work the organization’s center in Seymour has been able to carry out through medication-assisted treatment and medications for opioid use disorder provided to its clients over the past year. Schneck has provided technical assistance and grant support for those treatments.

“What a difference a year can make,” Lundy said. “I know last year at this time, most of us were here. At this time last year, Indiana Health Centers, we were not doing any treatment for substance use. We stood here and committed to all of you that was going to change, and I’m really pleased to tell you that it has.”

Indiana Health Centers, which was established 40 years ago, operates 10 offices around the state, including one in Seymour.

Lundy said over the past year, the Seymour center has seen 72 patients complete follow-up visits for substance use and medication.

“This is our community. These are our patients. These are our family members, and there’s no discrimination here,” she said “It touches across all ages and demographics, and to really be able to increase access and be able to address and offer these services is such an incredible honor for us.”

Medora Community Schools Principal Kara Hunt talked about the school’s efforts to identify and address mental health services for students, staff and community since the COVID-19 pandemic started.

Hunt said anyone who has worked with children and families in the past few years knows mental health is becoming an issue for them.

 ABOVE: Dr. Eric Fish shares information about mental health services and the work of Healthy Jackson County during the recent Jackson County Mental Health Summit. Fish, a member of the Community Foundation of Jackson’s Board of Directors, is the president and chief executive officer of Schneck Medical Center.

 ABOVE: Indiana Health Centers CEO Ann Lundy, center, leads a breakout session during the second Jackson County Mental Health Summit on February 8 at Camp Pyoca near Brownstown.

 ABOVE: Foundation President & CEO Dan Davis presents a copy of “Where to Start” to Stacey Parisi of Seymour Community Schools at the second Jackson County Mental Health Summit. The books, which were presented to the county’s schools, were funded with a Fall Grant from the Foundation to Healthy Jackson County and Schneck Medical Center. He made the presentations on behalf of Healthy Jackson County during the second Jackson County Mental Health Summit on February 8 at Camp Pyoca near Brownstown.

Brownstown Central High School student receives 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship

Jenna Bolte emerges from 127 applicants

The Community Foundation of Jackson County is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship for Jackson County – Jenna Bolte, a current senior at Brownstown Central High School.

Lilly Endowment Community Scholars are known for their community involvement, academic achievement, character and leadership.

Bolte was among 127 Jackson County applicants this year for the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship.  They were narrowed to 14 finalists, and Bolte was then selected as the nominee, Foundation Vice President Sue Smith said.

“Jenna was selected from a group of outstanding applicants from all six high schools in Jackson County,” Smith added.

With the selection of Bolte, there are now 43 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars from Jackson County, with the first recipient selected in 1998.  During the 2024-2025 academic year, there will be four Jackson County Lilly Scholars on college campuses throughout Indiana.

She is the daughter of Suzanne Bolte of Brownstown.

Bolte is in the process of determining where she will attend college next year.  She plans to major in chemistry.

“I am interested in becoming a pediatrician,” she said Monday.

Each Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship provides for full tuition, required fees and a stipend of up to $900 per year for required books and required equipment for four years of undergraduate study on a full-time basis leading to a baccalaureate degree at any eligible Indiana public or private nonprofit college or university.

Lilly Endowment Community Scholars may also participate in the Lilly Scholars Network, which connects scholars with resources and opportunities to be active leaders on their campuses and in their communities. Both the scholarship program and network are supported by grants from Lilly Endowment to Independent Colleges of Indiana.

In nominating Jackson County’s Lilly Endowment Community Scholar, consideration was given to academic achievement, advanced curriculum, school and community activities, a required essay and financial need by the Community Foundation’s Scholarship Committee.

After the field of applicants was narrowed, the nominee was submitted to the statewide administrator of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program, Independent Colleges of Indiana, for the selection of scholarship recipients.

“We have so many high-caliber applicants that it always seems to be such a daunting task to decide on our finalists, but with our thorough application process, the field just seems to automatically narrow down to the best of the best,” said Trina Tracy, chair of the Foundation’s Scholarship Committee.

Lilly Endowment Inc. created the program for the 1998-1999 school year and has supported it every year since with tuition grants totaling in excess of $439 million. More than 5,000 Indiana students have received the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship since its inception.

The primary purposes of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program are:

  • To help raise the level of educational attainment in Indiana.
  • To increase awareness of the beneficial roles Indiana community foundations can play in their communities.
  • And to encourage and support the efforts of current and past Lilly Endowment Community Scholars to engage with each other and with Indiana business, governmental, educational, nonprofit and civic leaders to improve the quality of life in Indiana generally and in local communities throughout the state.

Increasing educational attainment among Jackson County residents is an important part of the Foundation’s mission to help grow better tomorrows, said Dan Davis, President & CEO of the Community Foundation of Jackson County.

“Concern about the education levels here was a key factor when the Foundation brought other partners from across the county together to establish the Jackson County Learning Center, and we remain committed to that goal,” Davis said. “It is certainly part of our guiding efforts in administering scholarship funds entrusted to the Foundation.”

The Foundation’s efforts to improve educational opportunities extends beyond programs focused on college, including support of the Jackson County Education Coalition’s On My Way Pre-K pilot program for 4-year-olds and the encouragement of workforce development in partnership with Jackson County Industrial Development Corp. and others.

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Dan Davis is president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Jackson County. The Foundation offers endowment services, gift planning, charitable gift annuities and scholarship administration. Our office is at 107 Community Drive, Seymour, IN 47274. For information or to make a gift, call 812-523-4483, or click the DONATE NOW button here on our website.

Jenna Bolte

From left, Foundation Vice President Sue Smith meets with 2024 Lilly Community Scholar Jenna Bolte and her mother, Suzanne.

About the Community Foundation of Jackson County

  • The Community Foundation of Jackson County offers endowment services, gift planning, charitable gift annuities and scholarship administration. Its assets total more than $18 million. The Foundation administers more than 250 funds. Among them are 69 scholarship funds. During 2022-2023 school year, 85 Foundation scholarship recipients were on college and university campuses across Indiana and around the nation.

  • For information or to make a donation, call 812-523-4483, or go online at www.cfjacksoncounty.org.

  • Its office is at 107 Community Drive in Seymour.

  • Online gifts may be made through our website. Click on the “Donate Now” button or hit this link: https://www.cfjacksoncounty.org/donate-now/.

About Lilly Endowment Inc.

  • Lilly Endowment Inc. is a private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly Sr. and his sons Eli and J.K. Jr. through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company.
  • While those gifts remain the financial bedrock of the Endowment, it is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location.
  • Although the Endowment funds programs throughout the United States, especially in the field of religion, it maintains a special commitment to its hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana.

Gifts to the Gift of Grain program reaps benefits for Jackson County community

Cast your vote in Green vs. Red competition

A message to our friends down on the farm: If you are looking at moving grain to make room for this year’s harvest, now might be a good time to consider making that first gift – or your next gift – to the Gift of Grain program at the Community Foundation of Jackson County.

It’s easy to do, just as many of you are already giving such gifts to your church. Gifts of Grain can be made through local grain elevators include Premier Ag in Cortland, Bundy Brothers at Medora, Rose Acre Farms and Benson Hill at Cortland and Tampico Grain near Crothersville.

Your Gift of Grain could support any of the funds at the Foundation, quite possibly one for your church (we have several funds that pay annual grants to local churches), to scholarship funds, to community funds and specific agency funds.You many even consider starting your own fund as a family legacy.

And your gifts can count as vote in our friendly Head to Head: Green vs. Red competition.

For information about the program, or its companion program, Giving a Gift of Livestock, contact the Community Foundation of Jackson County at 812-523-4483, or send an email to president@cfjacksoncounty.org. We’ll be happy to work with you as you harvest your crops and sow the seeds to help us grow better tomorrows.

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The Community Foundation of Jackson County offers endowment services, gift planning, charitable gift annuities and scholarship administration. Our office is at 107 Community Drive, Seymour, IN 47274. For information or to make a gift, call 812-523-4483, or click the DONATE NOW button here on our website.

The Foundation represents all people

 

June 5, 2020 / From The Community Foundation of Jackson County

The Community Foundation of Jackson County remains committed to helping all people across our community. That’s one reason why it pains us to see such strident division and anger in our country.

It makes no sense.

Racism is simply wrong. It cannot be tolerated. Political sides should be able to work together for the common good of all Americans and of all America, not picking winners and losers, not labeling everyone else the evil “other.”

The Foundation strives to stay above the political fray, preferring to instead focus on the work of making our community a more equitable, better place to live, making a difference, helping lift up the community, our entire community – black, brown, white.

Sometimes, though, circumstances call for standing up. Some situations demand that we take a stand – both verbally and in our actions.

So we stand with those in this great nation who believe that – despite earlier struggles and efforts – a racial divide remains for many among us. That current voices must be heard and acted upon. So we also stand with those who are against rioting and looting. So we also stand with those who are against violence of all sorts – violence in our homes, the workplace and on our streets.

We call for calmer heads. We seek more understanding. We seek a better climate for open and honest discussion and for earnest action to improve our lot.

This stand supports our mission of building visionary partnerships with donors and local service providers, of providing funds to enhance the quality of life across Jackson County and of being a catalyst and leader of change in our community.

We hope that you share our mission and that you share our stand against racism, against violence and against such strident, hateful division. Contending this current situation – only the latest in what seems a never-ending stream of racial assaults — is a Minneapolis problem or a Washington, D.C., problem or simply a problem for others seems a failure to recognize we are all in this world together.

To dismiss the “black lives matter” mantra with the assertion that “all lives matter” seems to miss the point. Until all lives really do matter, no lives matter. Surely we can all do better. Surely we can make life safer, better and more equitable for everyone in our community and across this country.

Together, We Grow Tomorrows

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A community foundation has one simple goal: to build up and improve that community – over time – through philanthropic donations, large and small. Endowments are never spent, but professionally handled and invested in projects and causes that will produce MORE income; perpetually investing all gains back into the community and helping them to keep giving forever. The Community Foundation of Jackson County, and our experienced managing board of local directors, adhere strongly to these principles and use them to exist as a strong catalyst for positive change within our own community.

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Community Foundation of Jackson County
107 Community Drive P.O. Box 1231 Seymour, IN47274 
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