We are seeking funding to support our 2024 Honeywell Summer Arts Camps, which offer unique, educational, and fun-filled summer arts experiences in theatre and visual art for students K-12 in Wabash County. We offer a fun, welcoming environment for students to take their artistic skills to the next level and learn new ones alongside soon-to-be lifelong friends! Our multi-week summer camps are led by exceptional local teaching artists who bring decades of experience to their roles as instructors and provide engaging and accessible instruction to even the youngest students. Each camp culminates with an event show casing the students' work. Not only are Arts-based summer camps fun, but they help develop creative thinking skills, encourage socialization, spark an interest in the arts, and foster a sense of curiosity in students. Participation also allows students to develop soft skills such as teamwork, collaboration, self-reliance, empathy, and discipline. While grades are not a criteria for the program, a correlation with academic success and school engagement can be tied to involvement in arts-based summer camps like ours. Summer Arts Camps take place throughout the month of June 2024, and are offered to students and families at an affordable rate for our geographic area. However, we also provide needs-based financial assistance to ensure that any student regardless of socioeconomic status can participate. Your support helps make this possible!
The Wabash County Museum is seeking contributions toward a one-time cost to digitize around 1,000 oversized documents in our archives. Digitizing and cataloging oversized items is impossible in house because the Museum does not own the equipment to do so. Digitizing the documents in the archives will make them searchable, which will expand the museum's ability to preserve and share history. The archives are particularly important because they are accessed frequently via research requests from people searching for genealogy information, researching the history of a property or event, writing a paper or even a book, by educators for classroom use, and more. Read the Full Request Here
This innovation hub will house eight retail units on the street level, and nine remote co-working offices and a shared business space downstairs. The space will become a space that local entrepreneurs and start up companies can begin building their downtown footprint without risking everything. The project will also provide a gathering place for commerce and community, offering entrepreneurs a place to share best practices that will kickstart our community's growth. Funds raised during this campaign will cover the following: Construction supplies for the initial build out; Office equipment such as multi-function copier/printer and hi-resolution screens for virtual meetings; Furniture for both retail and office spaces; Business support services that will be available.
We are thrilled to share with you an exciting initiative that is currently underway at our facility—an effort to enhance our lighting infrastructure and parking facilities. As we continually strive to improve the overall experience for our community and visitors, we recognize the importance of modernizing these crucial aspects of our space. Why lighting and parking? Our commitment to creating a safe, welcoming, and enjoyable environment drives us to focus on upgrading our lighting infrastructure and parking facilities. This not only addresses practical concerns but also plays a vital role in elevating the overall atmosphere for everyone who utilizes our space. Field Lighting for the Squires Softball Team: As the proud home of the Squires Softball team, ensuring top-notch field lighting is a priority. This not only enhances the safety of our players but also contributes significantly to the quality and enjoyment of the game. Upgrading our lighting system is a key step in maintaining the excellence that our team and community deserve. How You Can Help? We are reaching out to our community for support in making this project a reality. Your contributions will directly impact the success of our fundraising efforts, allowing us to update and improve our lighting infrastructure and parking facilities. Every donation, big or small, brings us one step closer to achieving our goal. Whether you're a passionate supporter of the Squires Softball team, a dedicated community member, or someone who simply appreciates the value of well-maintained facilities, we invite you to join us on this journey. Your involvement can make a significant difference, helping us create a space that we can all take pride in. Thank you for your consideration and support. Together, we can illuminate the path to a brighter and better future for our community.
MELC has never had a working library that the children could utilize. 61% of lower income families have no children's books in their homes. This can create a 30-million-word gap by age 3, which then leads to lower performance throughout their school years. We want to change that and make sure all children in our center have a variety of ways to use and access books. We have found a space to use and have brought in some of the books. However, we are in need of furniture for the children to utilize, more book shelves and art work. We will also want to add a computer for checking in and out books. The current selection of books will need to be updated as well. We think the children will really enjoy this space in our school. Thank you for considering donating to our library.
2024 will be the fifth year that we have offered an 8-week program for area youth. Each year we pick a different theme and explore all aspects of that topic. In 2023 our food theme included a trip to the Stockdale Mill to see how grain was processed. In our next year we would like to expand the age group (11-14) and include middle school kids. We will teach them how photography is important to recording history and how photos have provided information that was previously left unrecorded in the past. Participants will learn photographic skills from professional photographers as well as art teachers. We also hope this will highlight an opportunity for a future career that students might like to explore. Our younger campers will be focusing on Native Americans that lived in our area, namely the Potawatomie and Miami tribes. They will learn about clothing, food, art and music in addition to visiting the sites that they lived.
The Roann library is celebrating 109 years, serving the Community of Roann and all of Paw Paw Township. Part of our mission is to save and embrace our rich and colorful history. As part of our project to reorganize our Indiana Room, which is set aside for genealogical research and local history, we are in need of a new microfilm reader to enable researchers to read our collection of The Roann Clarion, our local historic newspaper. The library holds microfilm for our paper from 1902-1942. Currently this collection as we have it, is not available anywhere else. Online historic databases appear to only cover approximately 20 years. We are seeking funds for a microfilm reader / scanner the enables us to print via a computer. This will be an invaluable asset for researchers whose families played a part in the building of this 170 year old community.
In an age where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, understanding the fundamentals of computer hardware and software is more than a skill—it's a necessity. Recognizing this, our innovative Computer Camp is designed to demystify the complex world of computers for students, providing them with the knowledge and hands-on experience to not only grasp but also actively engage with the technology that drives the modern world. This comprehensive program covers everything from the basics of computer components to the intricacies of assembling a motherboard, configuring BIOS/UEFI settings, installing operating systems, and connecting external components to a PC tower.
We currently serve Pre-K to 6th grade students in both MSD of Wabash County and Wabash City Schools. Students who qualify for free/reduced lunch qualify to receive Blessings bags. Currently, we serve approximately 473 students weekly. We provide weekly bags to each student containing between eight to nine items. We like to include two warm items (mac n' cheese cup, cup of noodles, or canned pasta), two breakfast items (oatmeal, cereal, or breakfast bars), fruit (either fresh apples or applesauce), and a variety of snacks (crackers, cookies, granola bars, popcorn, trail mix, gummy snacks, Slim Jims, pudding, or a juice pouch). We also provide allergy-safe bags with different food items for students with food allergies. Your support will help sustain Blessings in a Backpack Wabash.
Lighthouse Missions is a local not-for-profit in downtown Wabash that has been helping Wabash County residents with food, clothing, and other basic needs for 18 years. Lighthouse Missions is seeking contributions to help provide food and clothing to individuals and families in need during the holiday season. Each year, Lighthouse Missions gives away roughly $26,000 in food during the Thanksgiving/Christmas and Easter Holidays. Read the Full Request Here
Our goal is to purchase 1 racing wheelchair and an enclosed trailer to transport our My Team Triumph race chairs to local and regional events. My Team Triumph connects children, teens, adults, and veterans with disabilities/ special abilities with able-bodied people to have a chance to compete and finish endurance running, cycling, and triathlon events. By doing this we enrich the health and well-being of individuals with disabilities/ special abilities by fostering lasting and authentic relationships through the teamwork environment. Our teams consist of a Captain and Angel. The person riding in the race chair is called a "Captain", as they are the captain of the team. The able-bodied person is the "Angel", as they are there to ensure success but unseen in the eyes of the event as they do not wear a race number so all credit goes to the captain.
Advantage Housing (AHI) is providing HOST Homes in Wabash County. HOST stands for Housing Options Short Term. We acquire properties and renovate them into efficiency apartments and family living units. These units are for the individuals in a housing crisis. To qualify for this program individuals/families are considered homeless, being evicted, not in a safe living environment or are a domestic violence victim. The housing counseling focuses on reducing or removing all the barriers to establishing a long-term residence. By far, this is the greatest help we can provide clients. The housing counseling service helps individuals build positive habits and mindsets and provides financial education such as budgeting basics. Contributions will help provide counseling for individuals in or applying for the HOST program. Read the Full Request Here
