GREENFIELD — The Hancock County Community Foundation recently awarded the Hancock County Extension Homemakers a grant from the Hancock County Enrichment and Humanitarian Endowment Funds, component funds of HCCF. The $550 grant will allow them to conduct the I CAN program, which consists of classes over the course of four weeks for skills such as crocheting, painting on canvas, feeding a family of four for less than $125 and making homemade bread. Each class is hands-on with participants trying all the different skills. Participants will receive a recipe book, meal planning notebook, stainless steel bowl, wooden spoon, skein of yarn, crochet hook and the canvas they create.
These classes fit with the Homemakers Creed: “We believe in the present and its opportunities, in the future and its promises, in everything that makes life large and lovely, in the divine joy of living and helping others, and so we endeavor to pass onto others that which has benefited us, striving to go onward and upward, reaching the pinnacle of economic perfection, in improving, enlarging and endearing the greatest institution in the world — the home.”
Created by HCCF, the Enrichment Fund is a comprehensive, unrestricted fund that addresses a broad range of needs, including future needs that often cannot be anticipated. It helps support long-term solutions, respond quickly to emergencies, and meet changing social, cultural, educational, and environmental needs in the community.
The Humanitarian Endowment Fund is a member of the Spirit of Community fund family, with grants supporting physical and mental health, rehabilitative services, and crisis intervention. It also promotes housing and shelter services, services supporting the elderly, youth, families, and people with disabilities, economically disadvantaged, minorities, and other special groups in Hancock County.
