Elkhart County foundation awards $3.4M in grants
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The Community Foundation of Elkhart County is awarding more than $3.4 million in grants to dozens of nonprofits and programs countywide. The foundation said the grants focus on categories including kids and families, career pathways, and placemaking.
The grant requests were reviewed by staff and volunteer committees and approved by the foundation’s board of directors. The grants range from less than $25,000 to $1 million.
“We are proud to be the stewards of community resources that can continue to make Elkhart County a better place to live, work and play,” Foundation President Pete McCown said in written remarks. “These grants will inspire good and are milestones for improving our community.”
Goshen College received a $1 million grant that will go toward the renovation of Westlawn Hall into a new nursing and public health teaching facility. The college plans to begin renovations later this year.
“Our region is experiencing an urgent and growing crisis in the health workforce,” Goshen President Rebecca Stoltzfus said in a news release. “Educating nurses creates good jobs, provides flexible and rewarding career pathways, and will sustain the capacity of our local healthcare system to care for all of us.”
The grant recipients include:
Career Pathways grants totaling $1,141,000
- Elkhart Education Foundation, Summerscape 2023, $50,000
- Goshen College, capital campaign for nursing and health sciences, $1,000,000
- Six grants of $25,000 or less totaled $91,000
Kids and Families grants totaling $1,116,401
- Faith Mission of Elkhart, family shelter on Middlebury Street, $157,000
- Maple City Health Care Center, expanding maternal and children’s health services, $150,000
- Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Growing The SOURCE, $643,000
- 13 grants of $25,000 or less totaled $166,401
Placemaking grants totaling $551,200
- enFocus, Institute for Entrepreneurial Community operational support, $50,000
- Goshen Historical Society, capital campaign — building renovation phase two, $75,000
- Historic Elkhart River Queen, $50,000, boat renovation
- Potawatomi Zoological Society, $100,000, The Concession Lodge and Bear Habitat
- Premier Arts, $140,000, new theater space
- Ten grants of $25,000 or less totaled $136,200
Connected Network of Trails Initiative grants totaling $202,823
- Elkhart County, Dunlap roundabout bike/pedestrian engineering, $105,000
- Town of Middlebury, River Mill Trail, $96,125
- Two grants totaling less than $25,000 each totaled $1,698
Opportunity Fund totaling $394,308
- 73 grants for sponsorships, memberships and similar expenses