Terre Haute Day Nursery Endowment Fund Grant

Terre Haute Day Nursery Endowment Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Wabash Valley Community Foundation
Last Updated: December 11, 2025

Summary

The Terre Haute Day Nursery Endowment Fund Grant, offered by the Wabash Valley Community Foundation, aims to support quality childcare through program development and equipment funding. The foundation encourages impactful proposals that demonstrate measurable outcomes, collaborative efforts, and community commitment. While operational expenses and religious purposes are generally excluded, projects focused on enhancing childcare services for the community are welcomed. This initiative seeks to create lasting, positive changes in childcare accessibility and quality.

Overview

Grant Guidelines As you and your organization begin the process of applying for a grant from the Wabash Valley Community Foundation, we feel it is important to share with you our philosophy about grants. When you see our logo, you also notice our tagline: For good. For ever. The fulfillment of this goal lies at the center of the grants which we fund. The Community Foundation seeks impactful, visionary grants that serve as investments in our community — investments whose results are measurable and permanent (not transitory). Grant applications should reflect collaborative efforts, organizational commitment and the ability to benefit a large segment of the community. They also should focus on the desire to improve our community “For good. For ever.” The many generous donors who have given over $49 million since the Community Foundation was established in 1991 have trusted us with the permanent endowment of those contributions. As varied as our donors are, one thing they all have had in common is the desire to invest in the Community Foundation so their dollars will be used forever to achieve good things in our communities. Like all investors, they have contributed with the expectation of realizing much gain from their investment. It is this same philosophy that guides our grant-making process. We want to invest in projects that are going to create the greatest return in bringing about positive changes that impact our communities. We look at grants as “investments” that are being made in partnership with your organization. As such, together we can focus on investing in solutions that over time will lessen and eliminate chronic problems. Robert D. Lupton, author of Toxic Charity, points out that “When we do for those in need what they have the capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them…..If we are serious about significant impact, the missions we invest in must produce measurable results.” We have a fiduciary responsibility to our donor-investors to evaluate our grants by focusing on the outcomes of the projects in which we invest. This is why it is important that your organization identifies the potential outcomes of your project, particularly if your group is chosen to submit a full proposal for a Community Foundation grant. In our view, a clearly defined and focused vision for your organization’s missions and efforts is critical to producing lasting and impactful outcomes. To this end, we have developed procedures to be followed if your organization seeks to submit a grant proposal to us for consideration. Grant distribution committees, comprised of volunteers from our local communities, will carefully review and evaluate a “Statement of Intent” from each grantee organization. Projects that the committee identifies as ones addressing significant needs with the potential for positive outcomes will be invited to submit full proposals for consideration. Terre Haute Day Nursery Endowment Fund Grants The Terre Haute Day Nursery Endowment Fund, in its continuing effort to provide for those in need of quality childcare, is seeking applications for grants in these childcare areas: program development and/or equipment. The Terre Haute Day Nursery Fund Selection Committee has developed a procedure for the submission and evaluation of grant proposals. The committee will carefully review and consider each proposal submitted and make funding recommendations to the Wabash Valley Community Foundation, Inc.'s Board of Directors. All proposals will be presented in written form ­ no personal presentations are accepted.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.

Ineligibility

While the Community Foundation remains flexible in attempting to meet community needs, the following items generally are not funded:Operational expenses of existing programsEndowments or deficit fundingFunds for redistribution by the granteeConferences, publications, films, television and radio programs unless integral to the project for which the grant is soughtReligious purposesTravel for individuals or groups such as bands, sports teams and classesAnnual appeals and membership contributionsCommonly accepted community services, which are tax supported such as fire and police protection, welfare and library service, etc.Political campaigns or lobbying activities