Welcome to the Evansville Fund. There's so much we want you to know!
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Do you have a love of community improvement? The Evansville Fund supports city beautification, development and more.
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Do you have a passion for education? The Evansville Fund supports many educational opportunities within the school district.
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Do you have a strong connection to the arts? The Evansville Fund supports visual, fine arts and performing arts.
Are you getting the idea? From health and human service programs to the environment, youth programs and more, the Evansville Fund is the best resource for everyone who wants to make an investment in the whole community.
Like the community itself, the Evansville Fund is built on the concept of permanence. It is an endowed fund that grows over time, and as community needs change, and they will, the Evansville Fund becomes a more and more valuable asset for Evansville. Here's how it works:
- You make a gift (cash, stock, real estate, or other asset) during your lifetime or through a bequest in your will.
- Your gift is pooled for greater investment return potential.
- You receive tax benefits in the year your gift is made.
- Annually, or in response to need, the Evansville Fund Advisory Board evaluates all aspects of community well-being and makes grant awards to nonprofit organizations and to Evansville schools.
The Evansville Fund helps us, as a community of people, to accomplish what most of us cannot do on our own. Your past gift, and your future generosity in any amount, will keep on giving to meet today's needs and the challenges of the future-whatever they may be.
~Evansville Fund Advisory Board~
Mary Anne Alt
Heidi Carvin, Chair
Jenny Kalson
Nancy Nelson, Vice Chair
Steve Royko
Attorney Walter Shannon
Ardis Zwicky, Secretary
News & Events: 2008
5th Annual Chocolate Extravaganza and Raffle
“AND ALL THAT JAZZ”
What do rich chocolates, fine wines, and live piano jazz music have in common? They will all be featured at this year’s 5th Annual Chocolate Extravaganza sponsored by The Evansville Fund on Saturday evening, February 9th from 7-9 pm. You will be treated to chocolate delicacies created by some of Evansville’s finest chocolatiers, a glass of fine wine, and live jazz music by Michael BB in the newly remodeled Eager Economy building on East Main Street (formerly Ace Hardware). Michael BB performs regularly in a variety of Madison venues including Magnus, the Concourse and the Overture Center. If you’d like to experience this music ahead of time, visit http://www.michaelbb.info/.
Community support has made this annual event the Evansville Fund’s most successful fundraiser. Tickets for “AND ALL THAT JAZZ” are $10 per person and space is limited so purchase your tickets early.
In addition to a wonderful night out, a highlight of the evening will be a raffle drawing for three great prizes. First prize is a one week vacation for two to one of seven all-inclusive Palace Resorts located in Mexico and the Dominican Republican. You can be relaxing on a sandy beach drinking a mai tai while your friends are snuggling to keep warm in Wisconsin. To find out more about locations and amenities, visit http://www.palaceresorts.com/.
This vacation package is valued at $3000, however, if you aren’t a traveler, you may choose to take a $500 cash prize instead.
Second prize is a $100 gift certificate to The Dining Room in downtown Monticello, Wisconsin—an unforgetable dining experience. The Dining Room information can be found at http://www.monticellowi.com/209.htm.
Third prize is a $50 gift certificate to The Night Owl. With this certificate you can invite your friends to an Ardy’s burger party and have a wholloping good time in Evansville.
Only 400 raffle tickets will be sold so your chances of winning a prize are pretty darn good!
Event tickets and raffle tickets are available from Evansville Fund board members (Mary Anne Alt, Heidi Carvin, Jenny Kalson, Nancy Nelson, Kathy Roth, Steve Royko, Wally Shannon and Ardis Zwicky). Event tickets can also be purchased at the Piggly Wiggly, Evansville Chamber Office, and Evansville Pharmacy. To order raffle tickets by phone, call Steve Royko at 882-0910.
Come out for a once in a lifetime evening in downtown Evansville and support a great community organization by purchasing raffle tickets. For more information on the Evansville Fund and how it supports the community, visit the website at www.evansvillefund.org
2007
Annually in May, the Evansville Fund Advisory Board accepts and reviews grant applications submitted by schools and not-for-profit organizations providing direct programs and services to Evansville. 14 applications were received and on May 25, 2007 the Evansville Fund Advisory Board made the following grant awards:
- Evansville Community Partnership: "A School for Girls" performance
- Evansville Ecumenical Care Closet: Building campaign
- Family YMCA of North Rock County: Art & Craft program
- J.C. McKenna Middle School: McKenna Mentor program
- Levi Leonard Elementary School: ABC's of Literacy
- Levi Leonard Elementary School: Differentiated Nonfiction Book Boxes
- School District of Evansville: Special Olympics
- School District of Evansville: Character Education Learning Team
- School District of Evansville: Treadmill training
- Theodore Robinson Intermediate School: Creating a Book Room
- Primetimers: Transportation
October Newsletter
E. Susan Eager Fund
Eager Free Public Library: to begin digitalizing archived newspapers.
Millie Tait Charitable Fund
Family YMCA of North Rock County; Art & Craft program.
At the Grant Award Ceremony, EF Vice Chair, Heidi Carvin announced the newly established
Evansville Excellence in Education Fund. EIE Funds are an effective way of providing much need dollars to support programs and projects that are subject to increasing budget cuts. It is an endowment fund that supports and celebrates effective, creative approaches to teaching and learning that improve the way we prepare our children for the future.
Evansville Excellence in Education Fund
For more information about the fund please contact Jane Duesterbeck at the Community Foundation of Wisconsin at 1-608-758-0883
