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Latest RCCF Updates
Gabrielle Pavey Named 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar
The Rush County Community Foundation is pleased to announce the recipient(s) of the 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship for Rush County – Gabrielle Pavey of Rushville Consolidated High School. Lilly Endowment Community Scholars are known for their community involvement, academic achievement, character, and leadership. Gabrielle is a
Grantee Update: Purdue Extension
2023 Grant Recipient $450: Helen and Jim Ewing Fund To Help the Elderly and Feed the Hungry The American Diabetes Association estimates that at least 1.7 million Hoosiers are living with prediabetes. To help with prevention and awareness, Purdue Extension hosts “Dining with Diabetes” programs throughout the year.
Grantee Update: Rush County Soil & Water
2022 Grant Recipient $1,400: Rita Yager Memorial Ag Fund Submitted by: Joyce Miller Our objective was to offer free gardening programs to the community and do “hands-on” training to enhance the community garden and encourage community participation as well as teaching people how to garden and the basics
Grantee Update: Rush County 4-H Horse and Pony Club
2022 Recipient $10,000: Community Grant Our objective was to make our grounds more handicap accessible and repair the concrete around the show office and concession building to improve safety. Major project was to make our restrooms handicap accessible by redoing the concrete, extending a walkway along the side
Grantee Update: Rushville Regional Theatre
2022 Grant Recipient $2,432.10: Music for Rush County Fund submitted by: Michele Orme The objective was to begin work to bring an active theater group to Rushville and Rush County. We hoped to perform a musicale for the community with the beginning goal of approx. 100 audience members
Connecting the Dots
Remember dot to dot puzzles? You know, those pages from childhood with lots of tiny black spots. Each had a number next to it, and you followed along drawing a line between them. At the end, a picture was revealed. It felt like magic. That’s a simple
