28 Hoosier Banker April 2016 1st Source Bank, South Bend, awarded a $55,000 grant in February to Goodwill LEADs for its Excel Center, a tuition-free adult high school in South Bend. The contribution will help provide students with resources to attend college after graduation. 1st Source Bank, South Bend, awarded a $10,000 grant in February to the Huntington County Community Learning Center, an expansion of the Huntington County Community School’s vocational technical center. The grant will be used for the construction, remodeling and expanding of the center, to provide high school students and adults with skills training and education. Horizon Bank, NA, Michigan City, awarded a $30,000 grant in January to the Lubeznik Center for the Arts. The grant will be used to promote Literacy Through Art, which helps area school students improve reading levels through literacy-focused curriculum, professional and development workshops, and pre-andpost-assessments. The organization’s visual art instruction is provided in partnership with Safe Harbor and the Boys and Girls Club of Michigan City. iAB Financial Bank, Fort Wayne, has been chosen as the first place award recipient for a $50,000 prize to be awarded to the charity of choice in the nationwide Super Service Challenge. The bank presented the award to Forgotten Children Worldwide, an organization that partners with indigenous Christians to combat poverty and human trafficking through child sponsorships, clothing distribution, self-sustainability projects and orphan home construction. iAB Financial Bank, Fort Wayne, has donated 40 footballs to the Boys & Girls Club of Fort Wayne to benefit the club’s “healthy lifestyles” program. iAB Financial Bank, Fort Wayne, has donated $7,210, raised through monthly “Jeans Days,” to Honor Flight Northeast Indiana. The donation will allow 21 veterans to travel to Washington, D.C. to view memorials erected to commemorate their sacrifices. 1st Source Bank, South Bend, donated $25,000 in January to Beaman Home for the construction of a new emergency shelter and outreach center to serve families affected by domestic violence. BaNkiNg ON cOMMuNity iAB Financial Bank, Fort Wayne, presents a donation check to Forgotten Children Worldwide. Pictured left to right are: Sid Schwartz, Carly Myers and Karen Cameron, iAB Financial Bank; Patrick Sells and Dave Lindsey, Super Service Challenge; and Aaron Brown, Jane Nussbaum and Kara Wickey, Forgotten Children Worldwide. Celebrating the donation of footballs from iAB Financial Bank to the Boys & Girls Club of Fort Wayne are Boys & Girls Club participants, plus Joe Jordan (behind club sign), Boys & Girls Club president and CEO;Will Thatcher (center), iAB Financial Bank; and (left to right behind bank sign) Amanda Miller and Carly Myers, iAB Financial Bank. Bill Burton (left) and Doug Baumgardner, 1st Source Bank, South Bend, present a donation to Tracie Hodson, Beaman Home executive director. From left to right, Bishop Eddie Miller, Goodwill board member, receives a donation from Ron Zeltwanger, 1st Source Bank, South Bend, with Debie Coble, Goodwill, and Randy Beachy, Excel Center. Gathering for a donation from1st Source Bank, South Bend, to the United Way of Huntington County are (left to right):Tiffanney Drummond, Huntington County Community Schools; Lyle Juillerat, 1st Source Bank; and Jenna Strick, United Way of Huntington County, Horizon Bank, NA, Michigan City presents a grant to the Lubeznik Center for the Arts. Pictured left to right are: Janet Bloch, Nick Bridge and Erika Hanner, Lubeznik Center for the Arts; and Rachel Saxon, Horizon Bank. Continued on facing page.
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