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on children and their
families
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The Foellinger Foundation is a private charitable foundation that awards grants for the benefit of people in Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. The Foundation was created in 1958 by Helene R. Foellinger, The News-Sentinel publisher from 1936 to 1980, and Esther A. Foellinger, her mother. Its funding comes from three sources:
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Lifetime gifts from Helene Foellinger
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Proceeds from the estates of Esther and Helene Foellinger
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Contributions from the News Publishing Company until The News-Sentinel was sold in 1980.
Click here for some history on the Foundation and its founding family.
The Foellinger Foundation awards grants to nonprofit organizations that strengthen Allen County children and their families, particularly those children and families with the greatest economic need and the least opportunity. By doing so, the Foundation hopes to help children and their families move from dependence to independence. That, in turn, will strengthen our community.
On a starless night...
...the universe is a void of
darkness.
A firefly flashes. The light is fleeting, here now, and gone.
For that fleeting moment, that
tiny firefly is the center of the universe, the only light in the vast
black of night.
For that fleeting moment, that tiny powerless firefly compels you to pay attention to it; to focus on it and nothing else.
Such is the stuff of
inspiration and insight; for a fleeting moment, it compels you to focus
with a brilliant intensity.
To see things in a new light. But you have to capture it while the
moment lasts, or it will be gone, like the flash of the firefly.
Harness the power of inspiration and insight. The Foellinger Foundation has three ways to help you do that; to help you take a fleeting moment of insight or inspiration, a flash of light, and turn it into an enduring beacon of opportunity.
For Foundations:
An
Idea Worth Sharing
Click here to download your copy of a case study on an innovative approach to grantmaking that may spark new ideas for your foundation.
ABOUT THE CASE
STUDY
There is no substitute
for inspiration.
The job of a nonprofit leader – perhaps the most important job – is to inspire others to help fulfill the organization's mission. Staff. Volunteers. Funders. Clients. Leaders must inspire confidence and motivation to help an organization realize its full potential.
But who inspires the leaders? Where do they draw and renew their energy, passion, and innovation? That question led the Foellinger Foundation to invest in a new type of grant, called the Inspire Grant. For the Foellinger Foundation, it was an experiment, but one consistent with the Foundation's tradition of investing in leaders of strong organizations.
Click here to download your copy of this case study for foundations.
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