Boone County Non-Profit Wish Lists

Community Foundation of Boone County

• Labor and materials to complete the park

• Laptop computer-in order to assist members with on the spot data entry
• Portable PA system similar to those used by auctioneers. This would assist the festival in areas where electricity is not available for a professional sound system and when weather prohibits the use of electrical lines.

• Gently used uniforms, some tentage, dutch ovens, camping gear, and monetary donations.

• Sponsorship of awards, trips, and educational activities for 4-H members.  Dollar amounts vary.  See Boone County Extension Office web site at www.bccn.boone.in.us/ces/

• Donations of good clean usable wigs, which are given to cancer patients
• Wheelchairs (to be loaned to cancer patients)
• Walkers to be loaned to cancer patients
• Conations

• New Furniture (hardwood—dark) for our building after we complete renovations in 2005/2006

• Scholarship money to help pay for childcare for families facing financial hardships
• Gift cards to Wal-Mart or Kroger to help purchase supplies for the classrooms
• 5 gallon buckets of paint from Kramer to paint interior walls. Call for specific colors
• Volunteers to paint interior walls through out the daycare center
• Money to purchase playground equipment for two year olds
• New or gently used leaf blower
• New or gently used edger
• Perennial plants and flowers for landscaping
• New or gently used tricycles or riding toys for 2 year olds
• Money or services to repave and line side and back parking lot and front circle
• Signage for playgrounds, parking lots and daycare center

• Blood Glucose Monitors and Testing Strips for patients
• Magazines for patient rooms & waiting room
• Monetary Donations
• Volunteers to assist with filing, chart assembly and other office duties

Note: tax deductible donations can be made to the Boone County Community Clinic, 404 West Camp St., Lebanon.

• HP inkjet print cartridge 56 (black) and 57 (tri-color)
• 8.5 x 11 copy paper
• Envelopes (legal or regular size)
• File folders
• White out & general office supplies
• Basketballs, volleyballs, playground balls, and jump ropes
• Cleaning supplies & paper products
• Exercise mats, S.P.I.N. cycles, step benches
• Volunteers to: mow campground & 10 acres in town
• Volunteers to: teach classes
• Volunteers to: paint, repair & clean up campgrounds
• Volunteers to: help with special events

WIC can always use jars of baby food and unopened cans of powdered baby formula. Diapers for children up to age 3 are always welcome as well. 

Other items ($50-$100 per item listed):

• Respite fund for parents of children with special needs
• Toy fund
• Book fund
• Parent training funds

• Projector screen
• Male child manequin
• Ladies vintage clothing (including shoes, hats, jewelry, etc.),
• Double wide bookcase or 2 single wide bookcases

• Office supplies—copy paper, paper clips, folders, CD-R, DVD+RW, etc.
• Special occasion and blank greeting cards
• Food baskets for home-bound seniors—Thanksgiving, Christmas, winter, & Easter times
• Volunteers—one time opportunities as well as on-going weekly visits to seniors
• Monetary donations to provide services for seniors

• Graphic design services donated
• Magazine subscriptions for waiting room (i.e. Parent, Child, etc.)
• Volunteer(s) to take care of children (in the office) while their parents are in counseling groups on Tuesday nights

Daily hygiene needs for residents, house slippers, moccasins, antennas for TV's, headphones, small fence for courtyard and small stove for activities.

• Historical documents

Canned goods are also accepted at the Home. Large cans (#10) of fruits and vegetables are always needed. 14 1/2 ounce cans are also acceptable. Canned items include: peas, green beans, mixed vegetables, corn, peaches, pears, fruit cocktail and apple sauce. Large bags of flour and sugar are also needed.

• 19" or 21" TV with a VCR/DVD player - cost $175-300. These items are needed to show videos of the equipment in operation and history of Jamestown at the society's printing museum in Jamestown.
• 2 - 8" step ladders - good used ladders would be fine.
• Flat Bed scanner - $100-125
• Flat Bed copier - $175 - 300

• Volunteers
• Donations

• Book sets for English as a second language students - one kit for each grade level - $2,000 per kit
• Books for elementary classroom libraries at $350 per classroom/100 classrooms
• Multiple copies of books for guided reading-six copies per set-$30-$40 per set (any number of sets would be welcome)
• Professional books for teachers-$25-$35 per book (any number between 1 for a teacher to 20 for a group of teachers)
• Materials/supplies for literacy centers/per classroom:
• Pocket chart-$19.95
• Magna doodle-$27.95
• Magnetic letters, upper & lowercase-$21.95
• Sentence strips, set of 300-$7.00
• Word building letter chunks-$24.95
• Cassette players with headphones for listening centers-$275.00
• Materials for shared reading/writing-per classroom:
• Easel-$200.00
• Highlighter tape-ten rolls (year's supply) $19.00
• Note tape for marking passages in books-5 rolls-$33.00
  
• Cover up tape-5 rolls-$22.50

• Volunteers
• Vacuum cleaner
• Sit-on lawn mower
• Weed eater
• Flowers/shrubs
• Stall mats
• Hay
• Sponsor a rider for one session ($200)
• Sponsor a horse for one year ($1500)
• Office Supplies (envelopes, stamps, paper for printer)
• Saddles/bridles/stirrup leathers

• Roof-$28,000
• Remodel aquired property at 222 S. Lebanon Street-$100,000
• 2 computers-$1,200
• Dental services/eye examinations
• Beds/dressers/linens
• Paper goods/cleaning supplies

• Personal items, deodorant, tooth paste, shampoo, conditioner
• Toilet paper and household cleaner
• Spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, tuna, peas, cereal, crackers
• Stamps, copy paper, file folders
• Warm blankets
• Volunteers

• List of Items needed: donations of cash, canned food, paper products for our every Saturday Free Lunch or for our "What's for Lunch?" program during school breaks.
• List of services needed: volunteers to prepare and serve Saturday Free Lunches at Shalom House; volunteers to coordinate our weekly free sack lunch programs when school is not in session (school holidays and summer) and volunteers to help with home repairs (either skilled or non-skilled)

• Paper products: tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, 13 x 30 gallon trash bags
• Cleaning products and labor
• Light bulbs (40W, 60W)
• Furnace filters (16" x 25" x 1")
• Portable CD player
• Printer cartridges for HP deskjet 722C printer (color: HP 23 black: HP 45)
• High capacity toilet
• Stamps, envelopes
• A store manager for the Shop @ the Museum
• Volunteers
• Market vendors
• Bicycle rack & picnic table
•  Financial support for operating expenses

• Volunteer for buildings and grounds maintenance, maybe a few hours a week
• Volunteers to decorate Munce Art Center exterior for holidays / also the car port area
• Gift items for volunteer recognition

We are in need of monetary contributions to assist us with our many projects which include sending local children to ISO's Discovery Concerts, musical scholarships and the yearly concert in the park.

Tax deductible donations can be sent to:
Symphony at Sunset Group, Inc. c/o Kate Koehler
138 Ulen Blvd., Lebanon IN 46052

• Volunteers
• Donations

• Mini van-$7,000

• Donations and funding
• Volunteers to help promote the arts in Zionsville and the summer Brick Street Gallery Walk on Friday, June 27, 2008 from 6-10pm and the fall Brick Street Gallery Walk on Saturday, October 11, 2008 from noon –5pm.

• Floor Butcher Roll Rack - $185
• Rolls of paper:
  • White - $46.10
  • Yellow - $49.60
  • Light Blue - $ 48.99
  • Bright Green - $52.90

• An intern to help with their software

• Turkey Foot/Lefbo - these 21 acres of Nature Park were acquired in 1995 and 2000, but are inaccessible without a footbridge across Eagle Creek. The current project includes a pathway along Turkey Foot to interconnect with our pathway system. The project is estimated at $910,000.
• Mulberry Fields - includes 38 acres of land and an historic farmhouse and related structures. This project is designed to be a major outdoor recreational venue for our community. Included in the plans are multiple playing fields, nature areas, a sledding hill, biking trails, basketball, picnic areas and more. It is also proposed that the farmstead be developed as a living museum. This project is estimated at $3.7 to $4.8 million without provision for the farmstead. The range in amount recognizes that final cost will depend on the quality and number of elements included in the final design. The estimate for the cost of rehabilitation and preparation of the farmstead is $500-750,000.
• American Legion Trail Crossing - envisions a contemplative area with gardens, monolithic stones, monuments, and a stone arch adjacent to the Rail Trail that will be a memorial to the residents of our community who served their country. This project is estimated at $300,000.

• An intern to help with their software

• Volunteers and speakers
• Nature books
• Nature-related art
• Monetary donations