Wayne County Indiana Foundation

Grantmaking: the Wayne County Foundation administers 382 funds to support the community with a wide range of organization-specific, donor directed, field of interest, and unrestricted grants. These grants serve to enhance and improve community life, address identified human service needs, support cultural, social, historic and educational endeavors, and encourage broad based community development. In every case, they are leveraged through Wayne County's vibrant commmunity of not-for-profit organizations and service providers.

Community development: the Foundation supports or provides a number of programs that represent specific initiatives to help move the community forward. These include a number of workshops and seminars to help build capacity in the not-for-profit community; foundation-directed initiatives to help promote women's philanthropy and leadership development; and forward Wayne County, a collective-impact style approach to better aligning community resources in support of specefic goals and objectives.

Scholarships: the Wayne County Foundation administers 146 scholarship funds to help qualified students continue their post secondary academic studies at colleges, universities and trade schools in the County, throughout the state, and across the region. In addition to direct support for those students selected, the Foundation's scholarships serve to encourage all students to do well in their studies. Foundation scholarships include awards for specific courses of study at identified institutions of higher learning, as well as a number of less restrictive awards to support general studies.