Representatives of non-profit agencies and organizations in Shelby County have received more than $33,200 in grants from the Shelby County Community Foundation. SCCF Chair Gene Gross, said with his most recent round of grants, the Shelby County Community Foundation has distributed nearly $1.4 million in grants and scholarships over the last 14 years.

Recipients of the grants include:
City of Defiance – $2500 – for use at the Defiance Walking Park
City of Elk Horn – $2000 – to renovate or retrofit the old fire station to convert into Fitness
Center
City of Harlan – $2000 – Fire Department Heavy Rescue unit
Concerned, Inc – $2000 – Purchase and install surveillance equipment and access control
For main facility doors
Country Care Center Corp. – $1500 – Add 2 automatic door opening systems to front and rear
Entrances
Danish Mill Corporation – $2500 – Site prep, foundation-laying, lighting, fencing to move
And restore historic scale model of a Danish Village
Friends of Harlan City Parks – $6,010 – Replace unsafe playground equipment that was
Removed from Jaycees Swimming Pool Park
Harlan Little League – $5000 – Construct concrete walkways between fields, build new
Backstops and renovate restrooms
Irwin Fire Department – $800 – IV fluids warmer for ambulance
People for Earling – $2000 – Two new signs with lighting and landscaping
Shelby County Community Outreach – $2000 – refrigerator and small kitchen appliances
For use at fundraisers
Shelby County Conservation Board – $1500 – provide a boat dock
Shelby County Historical Society – $2500 – Funding to create a storage and preservation
Facility by remodeling a portion of the current building
West Central Community Action – $900 – freezer for food pantry