Grants Awarded from the Community Fund
2016
Community Mental Health Center
$5,000 to train staff for a new addiction treatment service in Switzerland County.
Dearborn County Hospital
$8,809 to purchase First Response medical equipment and equipment for the training rooms.
Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry, Inc.
$1,500 to support the Switzerland County program where hunters and farmers donate large game and livestock to a participating butcher to be processed and donated to the local food pantry.
LifeTime Resources Inc.
$7,000 to purchase a new Catch-A-Ride vehicle for Switzerland County.
Swiss Wine Festival
$5,000 to creat a booklet featuring the history of the Wine Festival.
Switzerland County After Prom
$5,000 for the 2016 After Prom to help with prizes, food and entertainment.
Switzerland County Emergency Response
$2,700 to install On Spot tire chains on the new county-owned ambulance.
Switzerland County High School
$3,632 to purchase RealCare babies for students in the Child Development classes.
Switzerland County Soccer Association
$4,300 to purchase three sets of goals in order to be compliant with the United States Soccer Federation.
Switzerland County YMCA
$3,800 to purchase two pieces of fitness equipment.
Youth Pacer Athletic Corp.
$4,300 to purchase insurance and equipment for the youth football program.
2015
Community Mental Health Center
$2,400 for a Creative Theater project this summer for children ages 7-15.
Lifetime Resources
$7,000 for a local match to purchase a Catch-A-Ride vehicle for Switzerland County.
Purdue University- Switzerland County Extension
$2,150 for programming, including the 10th Grade Leadership progam, the Mini 4-H program, Ag Day, Nutrition in the Classroom program, etc.
Salvation Army
$8,000 for their Emergency Assistance Program.
Southeastern Career Center
$2,178 to purchase styling chairs & simulators for their cosmetology program.
Switzerland County After Prom
$3,000 to help with prizes, food & entertainment.
Switzerland County Economic Development Corporation/EcO15
$12,000 to hire a "Getting Positioned for Success" adult education coach.
Switzerland County Food Pantry
$1,800 to purchase three chest freezers.
Switzerland County Health Department
$2,100 to purchase sharps containers and pay for a monthly service to safely dispose of the sharps.
Switzerland County High School
$2,400 for a field trip to the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.
Switzerland County Homemakers/Switzerland County Fair Board
$3,000 for a pilot "WE DELIVER" nutritious weekend food program.
Switzerland County Nurse Managed Clinic
$5,000 to assist uninsured and under-insured residents, as well as purchase an Autoclave to sterlize medical equipment.
Switzerland County School Corporation
$5,300 to bring the "Rachel's Challenge, Start a Chain Reaction" program to Switzerland County.
2014
Angel Tree
$3,000 to help fund the 2014 Christmas Angel Tree program.
Boy Scout Troop 700
$1,242 to help purchase four camping tents.
Community Mental Health
$4,950 to enable eleven children with serious emotional disturbances to participate in an equine program.
Jefferson County Youth Shelter
$2,000 for a program that teaches Switzerland County's 5th & 6th graders about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.
Quercus Grove UMC Food Pantry
$5,000 to help purchase food for the monthly food distributions.
Switzerland County Elementary School
$2,000 for Family Fun Night.
Switzerland County EMS
$5,000 to purchase mass casualty incident supplies.
Switzerland County Nurse Managed Clinic
$3,000 for their Uninsured, Under-Insured and Indigent Resident's Assistance Program.
Switzerland County Public Library
$1,135 for workshops, trainings and other events during Emergency Preparedness Month in September.
Switzerland County Salvation Army
$3,000 to help with the emergency assistance program.
Switzerland County School Corporation
$2,500 matching grant to purchase goal posts for the practice field.
2013
Boy Scout Troop 700
$1,500 to purchase an enclosed 16x32 aluminum expandable frame military shelter.
Community Mental Health Center
$5,000 to purchase furniture for their recently purchased office building in Vevay.
Daughters of the American Revolution
$1,200 for a plaque memorializing Revolutionary War Patriots from Switzerland County.
Developmental Services, Inc.
$1,800 to start a program called Kid’s Day Out in Switzerland County.
Historic Hoosier Hills RC&D
$1,000 to assist them in producing a 60-minute film highlighting the history and culture of Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley and Switzerland counties.
Region 15 Children's Advocacy Center
$1,200 to purchase fundraising software, to create a newsletter template and to purchase children's snacks.
River Valley Resources
$2,000 to provide scholarship funds to underwrite GED testing fees for Switzerland County residents.
The Salvation Army
$5,000 for their Emergency Assistance Program.
Switzerland County 4-H Club Committee
$1,300 to purchase archery equipment for their Shooting Sports program.
Switzerland County Emergency Medical Services
$2,359 to purchase an Actfast choking vest and other supplies for their KIDS (Keeping It Downright Safe) program.
Switzerland County High School After Prom
$1,000 to help with the expenses of their event.
Switzerland County Historical Society
$5,000 for a matching grant challenge from the Paul Ogle Foundation to be used to intall a parking lot at the Agricultural Museum Center.
Switzerland County School Corporation
$2,000 to assist with their Earth Day program.
Switzerland County YMCA
$5,000 to assist with the start-up of a new program with the school system that will address childhood obesity prevention.
Town of Patriot Municipal Water Utility
$1,000 to assist with Patriot Water improvements.
