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This year, Kaleb Gannon will serve as president of FIST. Kaleb is a senior at Fremont High School. FIST stands for Forever Improving Steuben County Together. It’s a youth-led philanthropic organization supported by the Steuben County Community Foundation. The group consists of 8th–12th-grade students from Angola, Fremont, and Hamilton schools. This year, they are faced

This year, nonprofits in Steuben County have faced new financial challenges. Canceled and postponed fundraising events disrupted their anticipated cash flows. Some individuals lost jobs, making it difficult to donate as generously. In the midst of this challenging time, SCCF was able to award more than $320,000 in grants to 74 organizations through donor-established designated

This year, two members of Forever Improving Steuben County Together, the youth philanthropy branch of Steuben County Community Foundation, are graduating from high school. Sydney, one of the graduating seniors, shared that FIST wasn’t “just a bunch of teenagers helping out in the community.” FIST shows “how the youth could come together for the greater

The SCCF Board of Directors designated $100,000 to activate the Steuben County Disaster Response Fund. The goal is to address the rapidly developing situation in our community as a result of COVID-19. SCCF intends to use this nonpermanent fund to mobilize grant dollars for the community organizations affected by the virus. SCCF is actively listening

SCCF’s youth philanthropy group, FIST, wrapped up their January 2020 meeting to the sound of cheers from 5th-grade students learning about philanthropy. FIST (Forever Improving Steuben County Together) is a group of 8th-12th grade students from Hamilton, Angola, and Fremont schools. They meet monthly to organize service projects. They also provide grant funding to inspire

Change is coming to the Steuben County Community Foundation grant guidelines. The goal is to help local nonprofits continue to dream big. These changes were motivated by recent discussions with the local nonprofit community. The SCCF board looked at national and regional community foundations to review their processes for grantmaking. We identified updates that would

Isabell Deem, an Angola High School senior, has been named as the Steuben County 2020 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar. Deem will receive a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to an accredited public or private nonprofit college or university in Indiana, along with an annual $900 stipend for books and required equipment. Lilly scholarships were first awarded in