Indiana community center wins $10,000 grant

COLUMBUS (Press Release) - Columbus’ Eastside Community Center won a $10,000 grant to help the Center continue to brew good deeds, courtesy of “Drops of Good: The Maxwell House Community Project,” an initiative to inspire Americans to give back to their local communities.

Eastside Community Center was nominated by an anonymous supporter to win one of 100 Maxwell House “Do-Gooder Grants” worth $1,000. As one of the 100 winners, they were then entered to win an additional $10,000 grant selected randomly by Maxwell House.

Serving more than 900 people each year in the Columbus community, Eastside Community Center builds a stronger community by providing:

• Community gardens and an aquaponic system (symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a re-circulating system)
• Food and clothing banks
• Personal economic development
• Neighborhood crime watch

The Maxwell House “Do-Gooder Grant” totaling $11,000 will be used to equip the new aquaponics system to help provide healthy, affordable food for the Columbus community all year long.