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Permanent Endowment Funds - Field of Interest Endowment

You select an area of special concern or geographic area, which may be defined broadly ("education") or more narrowly ("nurturing parks and recreation in the southeastern portion of Kosciusko County") and the Foundation will use your gift to make grants in that area. Individuals, families, and businesses may be particularly interested in a Field of Interest Endowment when they:

• Wish to create a perpetual named fund to honor or memorialize an individual, family, or business;
  
• Wish to create a perpetual named fund to continue an individual, family, or business; lifelong commitment to a particular charitable field;
  
• Wish to provide funds for perpetual support of a particular charitable field by taking advantage of the best thinking of the board and staff of the Community Foundation on how to provide that support;
  
• Wish to create a perpetual fund as part of testamentary planning but, realizing over time that organizations and strategies to address a particular charitable field change, give the board and staff of the Community Foundation the responsibility to determine how best to address the needs of one or more charitable fields. 

These Kosciusko County Community Foundation, Inc. Field of Interest Endowments include:

Child Care Compensation Fund
Dekko Foundation established this fund to recognize the educational achievement attained by childcare providers.

Good Samaritan Fund
Established by Mrs. Ethel Vandermark, this fund helps families in medical crisis. An advisory committee oversees grant making from this fund. The fund is open to receive donations.

Heart of Gold Endowment Fund
Established in 2003 through a gift from National City Bank for the purpose of inspiring and recognizing the spirit of volunteerism in Kosciusko County through the Heart of Gold Awards celebration and other events or methods that build social capital.

Kosciusko County Patriotism Endowment
Created to promote and encourage patriotism in Kosciusko County, the United States of America, the State of Indiana and our democratic form of government. When fully funded, the Patriotism Endowment will make grants for the purchase and replacement of flags for public display, and for the funding and promotion of patriotic awards, patriotic educational events and patriotic programs in Kosciusko County, Indiana.

The Syracuse/Wawasee Community Fund
Syracuse area residents established this permanent endowment fund to address funding needs in the Syracuse-Wawasee community. When fully funded, a grant committee made up of Syracuse-Wawasee residents will recommend award decisions from this fund.

The Way Maker Endowment
Local philanthropists, who wish to remain anonymous, desired to create a fund that would help make primarily churches, and then other non-profit organizations located in and around Kosciusko County, accessible to all.  

Women's Fund
This fund was created by gifts from a local group of women who wanted to make a difference in the lives of women. Together, the women act as an advisory group helping to recommend grants impacting women to the Community Foundation’s Board of Directors.