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posted 04/16/99
The Green Bay Packers Foundation has completed awarding of its eleventh annual grants, this year totaling a record $123,000, Foundation Committee Chairman Jack Meng has announced.
Fifty-eight institutions groups, organizations and programs around the state of Wisconsin - also representing a record number of recipients - have shared in the distribution, he reported, bringing the total awarded during the Foundation's 12-year existence to $612,105.
"Five years ago, the total gifts were $35,000," Meng pointed out. "This means that the philanthropy of the Green Bay Packers Foundation has been increasing at a compound annual growth rate of almost 30 percent.
"The majority of the contributions go to helping the disabled and infirm, youth services and outreach, those needing shelter, and people suffering from drug abuse and family violence.
"We expect our gifts for 1999 to set another record along with the Green Bay Packers football team!"
The largest individual grant, $5,000, was made to the Brown County Library, followed by a $4,000 award to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and one of $3,500 to Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Price County.
Grants of $3,000 each were made to the American Legion Sullivan-Wallen Post No. 1 of Green Bay; Think First; Jackie Nitschke Center, Inc.; NEW Community Shelter; West Bend Youth Athletic Association; Boys and Girls Club of Sheboygan; Families of Children with Cancer, Inc.; Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs; CAP Services, Inc.; Community Clothes Closet; Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee and Community Advocates, Inc.
A $2,500 grant went to Free Spirit Riders, Inc., and awards of $2,000 each to: Encompass Child Care, Inc.; Wisconsin Badger Camp; Neighborhood Housing Service; Riverfront, Inc.; Kindcare, Inc.; Residential Care for Developmentally Disabled, Inc.; Curative Workshop; ARC of Oshkosh; Nurturing Program of Sauk County; Friends of Brown Deer Library; Manitowoc County Heritage Center; Center for Deaf-Blind Persons; Computer Literacy Project; Milwaukee Children's Theater Co.; Walker's Point Youth & Family Center; Second Harvest Food Bank; Wustum Museum; Waushara County Habitat for Humanity; Shared Housing, Inc.; Center Against Sexual Abuse; Tyme Out Youth Center; Parent Education Project of Wisconsin, Inc.: Unity Hospice; Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Brown County; Brown County Task Force for Homeless; American Cancer Society; Volunteer Center of East Central, WI.; Youth Go, Inc.; and Bayview Foundation.
Grants of $1,500 were made to Portal Industries and WI Committee to Prevent Child Abuse and awards of $1,000 each to Gray's Child Development Centers; Young Artists Workshop; Make A Wish Foundation; Rawhide; Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation; NEWIST/CESA 7; Safe House of Southeast WI., Inc.; Viroqua Area Hockey Association; Great Explorations Children Museum; Milwaukee Community Sailing Center; and CAP Fund.
Created in 1987, the Foundation was launched by then Packers President Robert J. Parins and designed as a vehicle to assure continued contributions from the Packers organization to charity.
In addition to Meng, the Foundation Committee members include Leo Scherer, Donald Harden, Michael Reese and Fred Trowbridge. Packers President Robert E. Harlan serves in an advisory capacity and Associated Bank, represented by Douglas Green, is corporate trustee.
All inquiries concerning the Foundation should be directed to Phil Pionek, secretary, P.O. Box. 10628, Green Bay, WI., 54307.