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Angola, IN – Six 2025 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar finalists have been selected by the Steuben County Community Foundation (SCCF). After reviewing twenty-one highly competitive applications from the schools serving Steuben County, the committee named six finalists to continue with the three-step selection process. The 2025 Steuben County Lilly Endowment Community Scholar will receive a […]

The Steuben County Community Foundation celebrated another successful year in helping the community prosper thanks to the generosity of its citizens and donors. The successful year, along with the announcement of significant grants and programs, was presented in SCCF’s annual meeting held at the Steuben County Event Center in the Steuben County Park at Crooked

The Steuben County Community Foundation’s Women’s Fund has awarded TLC House Steuben and Women in Transition with unrestricted grants of $16,650 each. The surprise announcement was made during a special after-hours event on Thursday, August 1st, attended by Executive Directors and Board Members from both organizations. The recipients were invited to the Steuben Count Community

Andy and Kara Laughlin, of Fremont, continue to support causes they care about and give back to the Steuben County community in a way that is inspiring to others. While both were raised in East Allen County, Andy’s mother was born at Cameron Hospital and is from a family of Jamestown settlers.  Both Andy and

ANGOLA — If you want to get better at doing what you care about, the Steuben County Community Foundation and Trine University are ready to help. The Foundation has conducted 50 leadership training workshops for non-profit organizations in the local area over the past five years. These workshops are part of a larger initiative by

“…The nation’s 900 or so “community foundations” arguably deliver more tangible, meaningful results than their vastly larger counterparts. And they do so in a participatory, ear-to-the-ground fashion that can preserve, or build, the social capital and sense of common purpose that is in distressingly short supply in today’s “bowling alone” America…” Read the full op-ed HERE.  Mitch Daniel’s

ANGOLA — Students in Trine University’s Franks School of Education will receive training in nonviolent crisis prevention and verbal de-escalation thanks to a grant from the Steuben County Community Foundation. The grant allowed Chelsea Superczynski, assistant professor in FSOE, to receive training and certification through the Crisis Prevention Institute. CPI training programs are… To read

ANGOLA —Ken Schneider missed his flight Tuesday afternoon because the school called, because of something one of his daughters did, and that’s how he found out his daughter Holly, an Angola High School senior, won the 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship for Steuben County. “Holly demonstrates all of the outstanding attributes required for this prestigious

ANGOLA — The Steuben County Community Foundation has joined in a nationwide celebration this week to recognize the increasingly important role that community foundations play in strengthening communities and addressing complex social issues like affordable housing, childcare, education, and economic development. For more than a century, philanthropic institutions have served as a trusted partner and

Donor Highlight Women in Transition Celebrating 20 years of service this year, Women in Transition remains a safe place for women to transition their lives for the better. Recently, Lynn Wernet has started a fund for WIT to support their operational needs, beyond a one-time donation. This fund shows WIT that they permanently have support