Legacy Fund: March news review

In March we had a great amount of topics to talk about. Firstly, we told about our activities.

Central Indiana Community Foundation and Legacy Fund as its affiliate are involved and interested in collecting data about real number of high school graduates who attend post-secondary opportunities.

The Department of the Treasury recently released an anticipated report mandated by Congress on Donor Advised Funds (DAF) and Supporting Organizations. The Council on Foundation's (COF) has issued a short summary showing how it affects You.

Legacy Fund makes grants to Camp Riley to help kids with disabilities from Hamilton County attend camp. Mark Robbins got a tour of the new Simon Family Tower and neonatal wing opening this year. Legacy Fund is honored to partner with organizations to help kids.

Legacy Fund now supports the charity started by Carmel Financial. The company and employees raise and give money to give perishable food items to the Good Samaritan Network. This year they might break 100,000 items. Take a look at this month's event (baked potato day) and what employees think. Legacy Fund works with several companies to focus their giving.

Among the main events which we attended in March were The 2012 Hamilton County Girl Scout Luncheon, The Hamilton North Chamber on Big Ideas for Small Businesses by Bedel Financial Consulting.

Several new videos appeared on our blog this month about the partnership with Shepherd’s Center for helping elderly people in Indiana, YMI (mentoring that can change kids’ world), short interview with Tracey Sheehan, President of Carmel Financial, about Legacy Fund and more.

In our new column Charity Highlight we posted articles taken from "The Chronicle of Philanthropy" and "Indianapolis Business Journal" telling about Billionaires and Giving, Philanthropy in Britain, Baseball’s Lessons on Promoting Social Change, the Reasons Use a Community Foundation and other.

We also continued discussing the important topics of Grain Gifts, the benefits of giving for farmers and smart giving through saving taxes.

Thanks our readers for staying with us!

Legacy Fund: February News Review

February turned out to be pleasantly busy for our community foundation. Legacy Fund partnered by facilitating a fund that the town of Atlanta in northern Hamilton County used as leverage to obtain the Community Focus Fund (CFF) grant. The $600,000 grant to help the installation of a storm water system was awarded by Lt. Governor Becky Skillman after a competitive application process!

The 2012 Boxley Lecture Series regarding the life of President Theodore Roosevelt was sponsored in the town of Sheridan this month. Legacy Fund board member and Sheridan town council member Brenda Bush was involved in this event.

In the middle of the month vice president and a wealth manager at Robert W. Baird - Dan Moore and several other community members met at Legacy Fund to interview some of the brightest high school students in Hamilton County for the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship (full ride) and the Legacy Fund Community Scholarship ($2,000 per year). Dan said this role was fun and hard, but it was a great opportunity to communicate with the future leaders of the Indiana society.

Legacy Fund board members Brenda Bush and Ann O'Hara attended the Sheridan Chamber of Commerce lunch with vice president Mark Robbins. The topic was creating a business plan and finding business financing.

Elaine Cannon of Sheridan, Indiana, recently lost her husband Mike to cancer. While creating the obituary, her brother suggested that memorial contributions could be made to Legacy Fund to bolster the family's charitable fund benefiting Sheridan High School. Dozens of gifts have been made in honor of Mike, a former financial officer at St. Vincent's Hospital. Elaine is very thankful to those who gave and is sure that her husband would have been touched by people’s generosity! Elaine added, "Flowers are beautiful, but scholarships keep growing."

Thanks to all our readers for being with us! Stay tuned for more stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary good through giving.