2023 “Community Impact Grant” Recipient – St. Felicitas Parish

The goal of Clinton County Farm Bureau’s 3^rd annual “Community Impact Grant” program was to create partnerships with other groups and organizations for projects that would improve our communities.  For 2023, the Clinton County Farm Bureau awarded a total of $5,000 to three (3) groups to assist with these types of community projects.  This edition’s featured recipient is St. Felicitas Parish.

St. Felicitas was awarded $1,200 to help upgrade existing signage for the parish grounds and cemetery.

Barry Hampel from St. Felicitas said: “Those impacted by this project include not only parishioners of the parish, but their extended families who no longer live in the area but come back to the cemetery to visit their family.  All replacement work was completed by volunteers from the parish.  These improvements were in addition to the other upgrades and expansion of the cemetery.”

2023 was the 3^rd year for the Clinton County Farm Bureau’s “Community Impact Grant Program”.  Participation for the grant program was down this year, only receiving three (3) applications that requested over $7,000 in funding. With a total of $5,000 budgeted for the program, the Farm Bureau could only fund portions of many of the projects that were awarded this year.

Since 2021, the Clinton County Farm Bureau has awarded a total of $11,950 in Community Grants to local organizations.