Make Your Match!

The Tipton County Foundation awards grants to programs and community organizations for projects that not only address the common good, but the areas of specific interest to donors, as well. For those who are passionate about a particular cause, Field of Interest Funds provide strategic, lasting support— even as needs change over time.

Contributions to Field of Interest Funds allow donors to target gifts to causes important to them:

This season, the Tipton Community Theatre will perform plays that provide touching and entertaining illustrations of some themes these Interest Funds try to address.

For ticket purchase information, to audition, volunteer behind-the-scenes, or make a financial contribution to TCT, visit http://www.tiptontheatre.com

October 30, 31 West Street Church Mother Goose is no fool! As soon as she discovers real werewolves are in this production, she makes a break for it, and it looks like our show is over before it's begun. But wait! With audience members acting out Sleeping Beauty, a good time is guaranteed for all.		United Community Fund Endowment (#111) • When the “wolf is at the door” most every family has or knows someone who can use some social services. The annual gifts to the United Community Fund help provide grants to agencies that make a difference. Gifts to this endowment underwrite the Fund’s costs of fundraising and administration.
November 5, 6, 7, & 12, 13, 14 Musical • Tipton High School Auditorium Based on the classic novel, the adventures of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy are brought to life as an exhilarating musical, filled with laughter, tears, and the lifting of the spirit.		Women’s Fund (#560) • This collaboration of women of all generations works together to create a stronger community, where women and girls are empowered to reach their full potential. Women share time, talent and treasure, and offer grants to support programs focused on the needs of Tipton County women.
February 4, 5, 6 • THS Auditorium “Young Performers” Production Brainy and beautiful Belle seeks escape from her brutish suitor Gaston. Held captive in the Beast's enchanted castle, she dances with flatware, sings with the furniture, faces menacing wolves, and learns how very different people can find strength and learn how to love one another.		Arts & Cultural Interests Fund (#561) • Life-transforming experiences of art appreciation, music, and theater can be made more affordable and available to all. Projects can include: concerts, matching grants for programs from the regional arts council, subsidies of field trip costs for students, or honoraria for guest artists at community events.
March 11, 12, 13 • CW Mount Center Four mentally disabled men live in a communal residence, supervised by an increasingly burned out social worker. Their daily lives include moments of great poignancy, love, laughter, and meaning.	Developmental Disabilities Program Fund (#565) • When the Tipton County ARC ceased operations last year, they entrusted to TCF the care and future growth of the nest egg they had developed after years of fundraising and grants to assist special education teachers, organizations like Janus Development Centers, and such programs as the Special Olympics. Contributions to sustain this support will grow this Fund for permanent benefits for our neighbors with special needs.
April 29, 30, May 1 • THS Auditorium Retired professor Norman Thayer and his wife Ethel return to their pond-side summer home for the 48th time. Nearing 80, Norman has heart palpitations, failing memory, and a tart tongue. Their divorced daughter and her fiancé visit on their way to Europe, and leave his teenaged son with the aging couple.		Senior Citizen Programming Fund (#570) • Our fastest growing population segment, committed citizens, proud neighbors, with issues of health care, economic vitality, and productive ways to use their skills and knowledge. This fund will make money available for enriching seminars, trips, equipment, and other projects.

When you attend a show, send your ticket stub with a check to a targeted endowment at the Tipton County Foundation, and TCF will match your gift, within budgeted limits. This program seeks to increase earnings available to the community for fulfillment of charitable purposes by encouraging individuals to make gifts of major significance to the endowments established by the Foundation to benefit a particular community concern. (A maximum of $50,000 has been allocated for this project.)

The match will not be applied to our non-endowed funds, such as Fireworks or others that are intended to be used within the year after they are donated. The match will be applied to any of the permanent endowments listed near the top of this page (CLICK), not just the five featured by TCT. This includes the three new ones. The other TCF endowments (the numerous scholarship funds, the agency endowments, etc.) can all benefit from your donations, but will not be matched under this program.

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Endowed Gifts Will Double

Gifts from individuals made during the Tipton Community Theatre's 2010-2011 Season to certain "field of interest" endowments at the Tipton County Foundation will be matched by TCF, dollar-for-dollar.

Every gift of any size— and especially gifts to endowment— are important for the success of a community foundation like TCF. Donors are appreciated for contributions that are personally significant to them, whether $1 or $1 million.

This season, the Tipton Community Theatre will perform plays that provide touching and entertaining illustrations of some themes these Interest Funds try to address.

For ticket purchase information, to audition, volunteer behind-the-scenes, or make a financial contribution to TCT, visit http://www.tiptontheatre.com