MutualBank presents a check from the MutualBank Charitable Foundation to Kosciusko County Community Foundation. Pictured (left to right) are MutualBank representatives Robyn Palmer and Stephanie Salyer, Community Foundation Executive Director, Suzie Light, and MutualBank Vice President and Regional Manager, Vice Turner.

By PAT BOTTS
President And Chief Operating Office, Mutual Bank

To honor the 125th Anniversary of MutualBank, the MutualBank Charitable Foundation is donating a combined total of $125,000 to 10 Indiana community foundations. The receiving community foundations include: Allen, Delaware, Elkhart, Grant, Hamilton, Kosciusko, Montgomery, Randolph, St. Joseph and Wabash counties.

In Kosciusko County, Mutual Bank Charitable Foundation presented a check for $12,500 to the Kosciusko County Community Foundation.

These funds will be matched one to one by funds from the Lilly Endowment’s Gift VI and, in some cases; they will be additionally matched by local funds in specific counties. The total received by the previously listed community foundations as a result of this gift will be over $300,000.

The donation is made possible in part by a generous donation from MutualBank to the MutualBank Charitable Foundation.

“We are fortunate that those before us had the foresight to fund the foundation when MutualFirst became a public company in 1999,” says Pat Botts, president of the foundation. “These donations help create a lasting legacy of support for charitable organizations in our communities.”