Sophia Travis Community Service Grants
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2024 Grant Cycle
2024 Sophia Travis Grant Awards
Grants Committee Members
| Name | Title | |
| Jenny Olmes Stevens | Community Member | jolmesst@gmail.com |
| Hattie Johnson | Community Member | hloujohnson@gmail.com |
| Peter Iversen | County Council | piversen@co.monroe.in.us |
| Cheryl Munson, Chair | County Council | cmunson@co.monroe.in.us |
| Jennifer Crossley | County Council | jcrossley@co.monroe.in.us |
The Sophia Travis Community Service Grants Committee is composed of five members. Three are representatives from the County Council. Two citizen members are public appointments.
Past Grant Cycles
Award Distribution list 2008- Present
Past Grant Presentations (scroll to bottom for listing)
Program History
In 2008, The Monroe County Council established a fund from which to make grants to support various community projects. Resolution 2008-51 is the original resolution setting out the purposes and intent of this fund.
On September 10, 2013, the Monroe County Council adopted Resolution 2013-15, which renames the community service grant program "The Sophia Travis Community Service Grants Program." Councilwoman Travis, who served on the Council from 2004-2008, in consultation with numerous leaders and citizens of Monroe County, wrote and sponsored the resolution creating this program in 2008. She worked tirelessly to improve the lives of all Monroe County residents.
On June 14, 2016, the Monroe County Council adopted Resolution 2016-23 which amends the areas of focus to include two new areas. The first addition is "nutrition" in Section 1A, so it will now read "Food, Nutrition, Security, Shelter and Health." The second area is referenced with the addition of subsection "1H. Youth Enrichment Opportunities." With this resolution the Council wishes to encourage the development of programs that will help a broader range of needs in Monroe County.
On August 23, 2022 the Council adopted Ordinance 2022-29 amending the prior grant procedure opening up funds to a wider variety of qualifying agencies; reducing the amount of applications that are of marginal value in order to lower the administrative burden; and limiting agencies to one application at a time to assure the suitability and quality of each application. This ordinance supersedes the previous resolutions to the Sophia Travis Grants Program.
