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Meridian Kessler Grant Committee Awards - 2005
The MKNA Grant Committee awarded $12,500 to seventeen schools, youth and
senior groups. This seventh year of grant requests presented the
committee's biggest challenge, as twenty-two groups submitted requests for
a total of $36,634.
The Grant Committee awarded grants to the Broad Ripple High School Health
and Wellness Program, which will offer fitness principles to high school
girls and an opportunity to learn from adult women who will walk the Monon
Trail with them; The Children's Corner Preschool Summer Camp, offering
enrichment experiences to Meridian-Kessler.s youngest residents; Heritage
Place's programming for seniors; the J.0.Y. (Just Older Youth) program,
located at First Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church, that furnishes
after camp care for young children until their parents return home from
work and the Kaleidoscope Youth Center's valuable work with our young
people.
The Martin Luther King, Jr Multi-Service Center received a grant to assist
its important work with grandparents who must care for their
grandchildren. Additional financial support will support the IPS Merle
Sidener School's Learning Community project to build a natural habitat to
encourage wildlife on two sides of the school property in conjunction with
the Indiana Wildlife Federation requirements. This program projects a
beautiful area for the community's residents to go and appreciate flora
and fauna native to Indiana in addition to beautifying the school's
grounds.
The Mid-North Shepherd's Center received funding for instructors for its
seniors to learn basic internet and computer skills. The National Junior
Tennis League of Indianapolis provides instruction in tennis and offers
programs in reading and preventing gun violence and teaches its young
participants how to use the parks responsibly. The NJTL received a MKNA
grant for its daily programs at Tarkington, Broadway and Arsenal Parks
that also serve other youth agencies. Two grants were awarded to The
Neighborhood Education Committee at IPS 84. One funds a writing workshop
at the Writers' Center located at the Art Center in Broad Ripple that
serves thirty-five Meridian Kessler 4th and 5th grade students. The other
supports the cost of the School 84 School Summer School Program which
includes math, art, computer skills, writing, science and sports.an
impressive offering for 350 children K-8.
Parkview Cooperative Preschool and IPS 91 Rousseau McClellan School each
received grants. The first allows for additional extended day enrichment
programming, and the second funds the 6th, 7th and 8th graders
participation in a national enrichment "MathCounts" Competition, an
excellent opportunity to increase students' math skills.
Meridian Kessler will fund a joint effort between St. Joan of Arc's School
and Purdue University at Columbus/SE Indiana which will introduce basic
engineering concepts to children in a way to which they relate and have
fun; additionally, St. Joan of Arc's Neighborhood Outreach Summer Program,
which serves 120 youth ages 5-14 and offers enlightenment about other
cultures, also received a grant.
St. Richard's School and the Youth Philanthropy Initiative of Indiana
received a grant that provides 80 youngsters from multiple economic
backgrounds, attending seventeen Indianapolis public and private schools,
an opportunity to learn leadership skills that each participant will take
back to his or her own school. These 80 young people will plant
leadership programs at their schools whose students learn to uncover their
leadership abilities, individual strengths and ways they can serve in
their communities.
A new Girl Scout Troop to be located at IPS 84 received a grant to assist
with the costs relating to membership fees, t-shirts, handbooks and other
materials. Twenty-three girls, from multiple economic and ethnic
backgrounds have asked for this Girl Scout opportunity. Seventy-three
percent of these students qualify for the free lunch program
There are so many worthy and well-done requests for so few dollars. With
that said, the Meridian Kessler Neighborhood Association has helped many
through its grant program.
This important outreach from MKNA to its constituents is only possible
through generous support of those attending the MKNA Home Tour held each
June. Proceeds from the Silent Auction fund these worthwhile and
far-reaching programs.
You are invited to the MKNA All Neighborhood Meeting at 6:00 on May 5 at
The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, located at the corner of 40th and
Pennsylvania Street to meet representatives, young people and seniors from
these groups and to share in their experiences and dreams.
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