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for our 25th Anniversary Celebration

Did you know that in 2010, The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc. will be celebrating its 25^th Anniversary? In recognition of our anniversary the Foundation will be awarding $25,000 to four of the endowed agency funds at a celebration luncheon on May 20, 2010, at the Horizon Convention Center .

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Mark your calendars and plan to join us on May 20^th, 2010, and help us celebrate our 25 years of service to Muncie and Delaware County!

To help us in our efforts to offset the expense of tickets to our luncheon and to help with the $25,000 give away, we have asked area businesses and individuals to partner with us for this important event. For a list of those businesses and individuals who have already committed to being a partner click here.

The Community Foundation would like to thank these businesses and individuals for their generous support! If you would like to be a sponsor of our 25^th Anniversary Celebration Event please contact Jean Crosby at jcrosby@cfmdin.org or send a check to The Community Foundation - 25^th Anniversary Celebration Fund. Donors giving in excess of $100 to this fund will be recognized as a sponsor of this event.

Featured Stories

Agencies collaborate in community giveaway

A unique collaboration enabled 1,500 Delaware County students to begin the school year with backpacks full of pencils, crayons, paper and other classroom supplies – backpacks that a Community Foundation grant for $2,000 helped purchase. Read More »

Agencies tap into fund-raising expertise

Representatives from 21 area nonprofit organizations accepted The Community Foundation’s invitation to enroll in The Fundraising School, a nationally known program of Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy. The Foundation covered most of the costs to bring the educational series—called “Principles and Techniques of Fundraising”—to Muncie. Read More »

Boom! A community tradition survives

When city funds were unavailable to support the 2008 Fourth of July fireworks display in Muncie, City Controller Mary Ann Kratochvil mounted a campaign to keep tradition alive by raising local support for the celebration. Read More »

Collaboration resolves agency emergency

The timing couldn’t have been worse. One of the aging furnaces at A Better Way Services, Inc., stopped working and the temperature was dropping – fast. “We were afraid that things were going to freeze,” recalls Teresa Clemmons, the group’s executive director. Read More »

Disc golf comes to McCullough Park

Johnny Godfrey, a former Ball State student and native of Kansas City, Mo., admits that he’s a “huge fan” of disc golf. So when he first arrived in Muncie, he was surprised to learn the city didn’t have a course. Read More »

Farmers and hunters help stock food pantries

As a postal service employee, Jeanette Saicheck is well aware of the positive impact that food drives have on a community. Each year her colleagues canvass their routes and collect tons of food to stock the shelves of local pantries. Because donations are limited to canned and boxed goods, protein often is in short supply. Read More »

Guardian Scholars program assists foster care youth

The statistics are discouraging. Only 50 percent of teenagers who are in Indiana’s foster care system graduate from high school; of those, only 13 percent go on to college, and fewer than 2 percent leave campus with post-secondary degrees. The Guardian Scholars program was introduced to provide support services that could help reverse that trend. Read More »

Yorktown Endowment surpasses fund-raising goal

Before Yorktown businessman Howard Gregory passed away, he established the Yorktown Endowment Fund at The Community Foundation. It was a way to give a lasting gift to the town and the people he loved. Read More »

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