The Emporia Community Foundation has unveiled a new grant program centred around aiding area children.
The foundation is currently accepting grant applications for the Sadie Jones Grant program. The program is supported by funds from the Sadie Jones Trust, an endowed fund given to the foundation from the trustees in 2002.
Sadie Jones was a spinster school teacher in the Lyon and Chase County areas in the 1800s whose estate was valued at $40,000 plus her land and mineral rights at the time of her death in 1947. Recently the mineral rights were sold off putting the fund at nearly $1 million.
Because of this ECF Executive Director Becky Jeppesen says the program was created to help grow the foundation’s reach within the local community.
Applications are open to any organization located in either Lyon or Chase Counties. According to a press release from the ECF, while the main mission of the Sadie Jone’s Fund is to provide for vision and hearing needs, it is also available to provide resources for public health and safety matters of area children.
Jeppesen says there are two deadlines for applications.
Jeppesen adds the foundation has $50,000 available in grants this year and anyone seeking to apply may find the application on the ECF website and may turn them in at the foundation’s office located at 527 Commercial St. Suite B in Emporia.
For more information call the foundation at 620-342-9304 or visit Emporiacf.org.
