Celebrating 25 Years

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF STORIES

25 years of helping foster youth: Arizona Foster Care Tax Credit

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust celebrates 25 years of community grantmaking in Arizona. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust continues to support foster youth and the organizations helping them. There are close to 14,000 children in foster care in Arizona and only 3,000 licensed foster families to care for them. Besides

25 years of helping foster youth

25 years of helping foster youth: Foster Success

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust celebrates 25 years of community grantmaking in Indiana. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports Foster Success and their mission to assist foster youth. According to the Indiana Youth Institute, there are 21,000 children in Indiana’s foster care system. Foster Success is Indiana’s only nonprofit organization

De Colores Shelter

25 years of helping people in need: De Colores Shelter

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust celebrates 25 years of community grantmaking in Arizona. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports Chicanos Por La Causa’s De Colores Shelter help survivors of domestic violence start a life free of violence. Since 1986, CPLC’s De Colores Shelter has been helping domestic violence survivors and

Coburn Place

25 years of helping people in need: Coburn Place

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust celebrates 25 years of community grantmaking in Indiana. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports Coburn Place in their mission to help domestic violence survivors. Coburn Place was established in 1996 as transitional housing for domestic violence survivors and their children. Today, it serves hundreds of

La Plaza

25 years of helping people in need: La Plaza Inc.

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust celebrates 25 years of community grantmaking in Arizona. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports La Plaza in their mission to help individuals become self-sufficient. In 1971, La Plaza was created to address the needs of the growing Hispanic community in central Indiana. Now, La Plaza

Friendly House

25 years of helping people in need: Friendly House

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust celebrates 25 years of community grantmaking in Arizona. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports Friendly House in their mission to empower low-income individuals to self-sufficiency. For more than 100 years, Friendly House has been helping people acquire citizenship, education and literacy skills. Originally established as

Mrs. Pulliam signs copies of her book in 1955,"I Traveled a Lonely Land.

Nina Mason Pulliam’s legacy

In Nina Mason Pulliam’s family of nine, words were very important. They read books, wrote stories and poems, and created plays for entertainment. She was taught by her older sister in a one-room schoolhouse. Mrs. Pulliam did so well in school that she skipped to high school right after sixth grade. There, she joined the

Father hugging his son

25 years of helping people in need: The Villages of Indiana

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust is celebrating 25 years of community grantmaking in Indiana. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports The Villages of Indiana in their efforts to help foster children. The Villages was established in 1978 with the belief that abused, neglected, and abandoned children need stable families and

25 years of helping people in need: Wheeler Mission

25 years of helping people in need: Wheeler Mission

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust is celebrating 25 years of community grantmaking in Indiana. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports Wheeler Mission Ministries’ efforts to help people experiencing homelessness. As the oldest and continuously operating homeless provider in Indiana, Wheeler Mission provides emergency shelter and services for people experiencing poverty,

25 years of helping people in need: Foundation for Blind Children

25 years of helping people in need: Foundation for Blind Children

This year, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust is celebrating 25 years of community grantmaking in Arizona. To honor Mrs. Pulliam’s legacy, the Trust supports the Foundation for Blind Children in their mission to help families and children with blindness. After suffering temporary blindness, Mrs. Pulliam became a champion for the blind and visually impaired.

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