TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Dozens of local non-profits received grants on Wednesday thanks to the generosity of four Terre Haute citizens who established trusts.
First Financial Bank distributed funds to 52 non-profit organizations. The bank awarded a total of $116,000 in which the contributions come from trusts established by Oscar Baur, Frederick Benson, Mary Smith Young, and Sheldon Swope.
Carol Myers is the Vice President and Senior Trust Officer of First Financial Bank. Myers said it’s amazing how many people these trusts have helped over the years.
“They established these trusts to help preserve and help the people of the Wabash Valley and particularly Vigo County,” says Myers. “The poor, the disadvantaged, basically any charitable organization.”
The full list of organizations and businesses to receive funding is as follows:
- American Red Cross
- Art Spaces
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Wabash Valley
- CANDLES Holocaust Museum
- Catholic Charities of Terre Haute
- Council On Domestic Abuse (CODA)
- Covenant Cooperative Ministry
- 14th & Chestnut Community Center
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes
- Friends of the Arboretum, Inc.
- Gibault, Inc.
- Hamilton Center, Inc.
- Happiness Bag
- IVY Tech Foundation, Inc.
- Junior Achievement of the Wabash Valley
- Junior Mental Health America of Vigo County
- Life Center/Eastside Christian Academy
- Light House Mission, Inc.
- Mental Health America of Vigo County
- Mosaic
- reTHink, Inc.
- River City Art Association
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- St. Benedict Church
- St. Joseph University Parish Samaritan Utility Assistance Fund
- St. Patrick Catholic Church
- St. Rose of Viterbo Fraternity
- Senior Education Ministries
- SHINE Foster Family Resources
- Sisters of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
- Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of–the-Woods
- Swope Art Museum, Inc.
- Terre Haute Area Meals on Wheels, Inc.
- Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club
- Terre Haute Children’s Museum
- Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra
- Terre Haute Women’s Club, Inc.
- The League of Terre Haute
- The Maple Center, Inc.
- The Salvation Army
- Trees Inc.
- Vigo County Education Foundation
- Vigo County Historical Society
- Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice of the Wabash Valley
- Wabash Activity Center
- Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors, Inc.
- Wabash Valley Community Foundation
- Wabash Valley Goodwill Industries
- Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity
- Wabash Valley Health Center, Inc.
- Western Indiana Community Action Agency, Inc.
- West Vigo Community Center
