(left to right) Toby Dulworth, Heath High School Grants Committee; Lois Smith, Executive Director of Child Watch; Jon Reid, Principal of Heath High School; Joyce Adams, Librarian of Paducah Tilghman High School; Michael Cochran, Executive Director of Market House Theatre; Dorotha Page, President of Garden Clubs of Noble Park; Don Mitchell, Interim Director of McCracken County Community Career Endowment; George Shaw, Community Foundation Board Member; Julie Harris, Executive Director of River Discovery Center; Ted Hutchins, Attorney for Denton & Keuler; Janie Smith, Vice President of Paducah Bank; Anna Thomas, Elementary Campus Principal of Community Christian Academy; Darlene Dreyer, Executive Director of Paducah Symphony Orchestra; Paul Bilak, Executive Director of Project Aids Orphan; Bobbie Guill, Executive Director of Hope Unlimited; Jimmy Franks, Pastor of Southland Baptist Temple; Heidi Suhrheinrich, Executive Director of Paducah Cooperative Ministries
The Community Foundation
of West Kentucky awarded
$401,000 in grants to local
nonprofits Tuesday.
The foundation is the leading
philanthropic organization
for charitable giving
in western Kentucky. It has
more than $15 million in assets
and seeks to provide the
vehicle for people to have a
long-term charitable impact
on their community.
The grants are annual
distributions from permanent
endowment funds of the foundation. An endowment
fund is set up by a donor to
benefit one or more charities
in perpetuity.
Once an endowment fund
is set up, other donors may
also contribute to the fund.
Regular distributions are
made to the benefiting nonprofits
from those endowments.
The grant awards:
Marilyn and Edward
Tilford Endowment Fund,
$111,140. A bequest from
Edward Tilford established
the Marilyn and Edward
Tilford Endowment Fund, a
permanent endowment fund.
The five nonprofits, and their
grant amounts: Southland
Baptist Temple, $38,899;
Paducah Cooperative Ministry,
$22,228; Child Watch,
$22,228; Heath High School
Scholarship Fund, $16,671;
and Hope for the World Missions,
$11,114.
Fred and Peggy Paxton
Endowment Fund, $200,000.
Fred and Peggy Paxton established
this endowment to
further various interests in
the community, one of those
being the Emerging Technology
Center. This endowment
also rovides the match money
for the annual Fred Paxton
Fund Run for Charities.
The Fund Run has raised
more than $2.5 million in its
nine year history. The grant
recipients: Paducah Junior
College Foundation, $100,000;
Fund Run matching funds,
$100,000.
McCracken County Community
Career Endowment
Fund. Fred and Peggy Paxton
started the McCracken
County Community Career
Endowment Fund to improve
the diversity of the community's workforce by developing
and conducting activities
designed to increase employment
opportunities for African
Americans. Its grant:
$36,630
Jane Peck Memorial
Endowment Fund, $8,367.
J. Lane Peck established a
permanent endowment to
benefit Community Christian
Academy and the Garden
Clubs for Noble Park for
the maintenance of the Jane
Peck Memorial. The grant recipients:
Community Christian
Academy kindergarten,
$5,753; Garden Clubs for
Noble Park, back entrance
maintenance of Jane Peck
Memorial, $2,614.
Mary Helen Wegmann
Endowment Fund. Even
though Mary Helen Wegmann
is not from Paducah,
she started an endowment
fund so the community can
share her love for classical
music. The Mary Helen Wegmann
Endowment Fund benefits
the Paducah Symphony
Orchestra, which received
$2,556.
Lanelle Phelps Boyles
Endowment, $4,072. Lanelle
Phelps Boyles left a bequest
to provide funding for the
improvement and operations
of the Paducah Tilghman
High School, Paducah Middle
School, McNabb Elementary
and Morgan Elementary
libraries. Grants: Tilghman
library, $2,036; Paducah Middle
library, $1,018; McNabb
and Morgan libraries, $509
each.
Geraldine Montgomery
CFWK Endowment. Geraldine
Montgomery was the
visionary who began the
Community Foundation
of West Kentucky. She recognized
the importance of
supporting the operations of
the foundation by setting up
the Geraldine Montgomery
CFWK Endowment. This
endowment accepts contributions
to keep the foundation
working for the community
for years to come. Grant:
Community Foundation of
West Kentucky Operating
Fund, $853.
Market House Theatre
Endowment Fund. The Market
House Theatre Endowment
Fund began with match
money from the Community
Foundation, Fred Paxton
Fund Run for Charities.
Grant: Market House Theater,
$2,036.
Hope Unlimited Endowment
Fund. It began with
match money from the Fred
Paxton Fund Run for Charities.
Grant: Hope Unlimited,
$725.
River Discovery Center
Endowment Fund. It began
with match money from the
Fred Paxton Fund Run for
Charities. Grant: River Discovery
Center, $4,784.
Project Aids Orphan
Endowment Fund. It began
with match money from the
Fred Paxton Fund Run for
Charities. Grant: Project
Aids Orphan, $768.
Paducah Cooperative
Ministry Endowment Fund.
It began with match money
from the Fred Paxton Fund
Run for Charities. Grant:
Paducah Cooperative Ministry,
$10,888.
Baker Estate Fund.
Grant: Community Improvement
Foundation, an affiliate
of the Community Foundation
of West Kentucky in
Hopkins County, $17,787.
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