Tipmont awards another $14,137 in grants

Nancy Myers (at left) presents a
Tipmont REMC Operation Round Up check to Laurie Mann, executive director of Family Promise of Greater Lafayette, Inc.

Family Promise’s purpose is to assist
families in transition by getting
them back into society and living a
productive life. The funds will be
used to purchase a storage unit for
the day center, so that a unit does not
have to be rented. Family Promise
provides shelter, case management
and mentoring and transportation
services for their clients. Clients may
be experiencing a broken home,
loss of employment or a fire. The
shelter provides a place to store
their belongings, what little they
may have left

Nancy Myers (far left), Tipmont
REMC, presents a check to Jo
Moyer, Sandy Hawn and Carolyn Smith, Clinton County extension homemakers.

The Clinton County Extension
Homemakers sponsor the Learning
Network, a reading program. They
purchase books for the First Books
program at Head Start in Clinton
County and donate their time reading the books to the children in
Head Start. These children receive
the books to take home to share
with their families with a purpose
of promoting family reading time.

Cheryl Farr (seated), president of Pam’s Promise, accepts a check from Nancy Myers, Tipmont REMC. Pam’s Promise board members, from left, are Jennifer Link, Ted DeVore, Brenda DeVore, Kimm Wheeler and Charles McKinsey.

Pam’s Promise is a program in Montgomery County dedicated to assisting homeless families
and individuals in securing and maintaining housing, while also assisting in the development
of life skills to ensure self-sufficiency. The program
provides transitional housing, job search assistance, accountability and interview skills training and budgeting and financial training. A
computer is needed to help keep track of client data. Operation Round Up will be providing the
funds to purchase a computer.

Joe Bloom, Tipmont REMC Operation Round Up board member, presents a check to Jennifer Hall, executive
director of GLSAPC, to help purchase materials and supplies for workshops.

GLSAPC provides informational/
training sessions about child sexual abuse/assault prevention for parents in the community. The sessions are conducted by a trained professional 
and cover basic safety tips,
warning signs of abuse and what to
do if a parent suspects abuse, with
a focus on parental communication
with children about the risks of
sexual abuse/assault. The sessions also include a segment regarding the internet and internet safety.

Rita Smeyak, assistant director
for the YWCA of Greater Lafayette Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention program, accepts a check
from Joe Bloom.

The YWCA of Greater Lafayette
Domestic Violence Intervention
and Prevention Program is in
need of new office equipment, as
well as swings and highchairs for
the children who live at the shelter.
Women and their children come to
the shelter in times of crisis. These
women receive job training, career
counseling and childcare. They
learn how to be strong, independent women. Operation Round Up funds will help buy a printer/scanner/fax/copier, a phone for the 24-hour crisis line, swings and highchairs.

Jane McCann, executive director
of the Lafayette Crisis Center
Foundation, happily accepts a check from Joe Bloom.

The Lafayette Crisis Center Foundation is in dire need of router and an upgrade to the server and data
backup systems in order to protect
and secure client information. The
Crisis Center mans a 24 hour suicide
prevention crisis intervention line,
as well as disaster response and community referral services. A grant
from Tipmont REMC’s Operation
Round Up program will make it
possible for the center to purchase
six hard drives and a wireless router.

The Heartford House Advisory Board was in attendance for the check presentation. Shown
in the photo (clockwise from bottom left) are Dawn Gross; Tom McKee; Jen Bushore-Barry; Tom Davidson; Joe Bloom, Operation Round Up board
member; Dan McGrew; and Cindy Marion.

The mission of Heartford House, Inc. is to allow children, who may be abused, to participate in
a forensic interview with specially trained professionals on a multi-disciplinary team, which
includes law enforcement, the prosecutor’s office and child protective services. The goal of
the team process is to reduce the trauma that the child experiences in having to share his/her
occurrence with abuse. Operation Round Up is providing funding for additional cameras that
are needed for the interview room.

Jerry Withered (left), Tippecanoe County Library Foundation board chair, accepts a check from Joe
Bloom, Operation Round Up board member.

The staff and volunteers of the
Tippecanoe County Public Library
Foundation, Inc. are receiving
funds from Tipmont REMC’s Operation Round Up program to help further the construction of a new technology center in the downtown library. The new center will include a 40-station computer laboratory, satellite
teleconferencing suites, collaborative customer work stations and language learning stations. The Operation Round Up program will be funding the hardware for the language learning lab.

Standing behind one of the beautiful exhibits at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette are (left to right) Kendall Smith, executive director of
the museum; Joe Bloom, Operation Round Up board member; and Glenda McClatchey, administrative assistant at the museum.

Many beautiful works of art are
housed in the Art Museum of
Greater Lafayette. The gallery has
more than one floor and is in need
of additional security cameras not
only to keep the exhibits safe but
also to make sure all the guests and
visitors are safe. Tipmont REMC’s
Operation Round Up program will
be providing part of the funding to
purchase the new cameras.