Published: March 25, 2009 01:54 pm      

CFBC presents ‘gift of green’

LEBANON — — More than $133,000 was distributed to 40 service agencies and organizations Tuesday at the Community Foundation of Boone County’s annual Circle of Giving Breakfast.

“We greatly appreciate all of the work that you do,” said CFBC chairman Tom Easterday before coaxing representatives of 21 groups attending the event into applauding themselves.

Easterday termed the event, “the giving of the green on St. Patrick’s Day.”

The presentation was of “dedicated” funds — money from specific endowments supervised by the CFBC for specific organizations.

“The foundation exists to bring people who care together with causes that matter,” Easterday said. He said the breakfast was “a prime example of the synergy” between donors and needs in Boone County.

“If we can continue to match up donors with items of concern to them ... we can do this for many, many years,” Easterday said.

Public schools were the biggest beneficiaries Tuesday, March 17. The Zionsville Education Foundation, established in 1995 by the Glassier Memorial Fund and the ZEF’s founders, received $26,217. The Western Boone Education Foundation received $23,101 from a fund created in 2000 by its board of directors.



The grants include

American Legion Post 79, $1,860

Arc Rehab Services, $316

Boone County 4-H, $405

Boone County Leadership, $360

Boone County Senior Services, $8,953

Boone County Extension Homemakers, $293

Hoosier State Press Association, $907

Crossroads of America Council, Boy Scouts, $250

Centenary United Methodist Church, $5,858

Pittsboro Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, $687

Traders Point Christian Church, $1,055

First Baptist Church of Lebanon, $1,950

Zionsville Lions Club, $355

Mental Health Association-Boone County, $88.40

American Heart Association, $88.40

Boone County Senior Services, $88.40

Lebanon Park Foundation, $88.40

Habitat for Humanity, $88.40

Jamestown IOOF Cemetery, $3,761

Zionsville Presbyterian Church, $636

Jamestown Christian Church, $5,032

Jamestown United Methodist Church, $4,088

Zionsville Chamber of Commerce, $965

Lebanon Area Boys & Girls Club, $864

Lebanon Park Foundation, $6,541

Lebanon Rotary Club, $5,080

Milledgeville Methodist Church, $1,628

Hoosier Chapter Soil & Water Conservation, $1,187

Northside Bridge Center, $522

Psi Iota Xi, $505

Boone County Guardian Ad Litem/CASA, $2,588

Boone County 4-H Clubs, $1,026

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, $6,455

Tri-Area Library, $977

Kappa Kappa Kappa/Alpha Beta Chapter, $4,739

Ulen Country Club, $393

United Way of Central Indiana, $5,942

Western Boone Education Foundation, $23,101

Zionsville Athletic Booster Club, $1,266

Zionsville Boys & Girls Club, $4,189

Zionsville Education Foundation, $26,217

Zionsville Lions Club, $446