Hanover Crew Foundation

“Expenses advertising and promotion 64 information technology 306 conferences/meetings 133 business registration fee 325 telephone 520 crisis relief 14,897 total 16,245”

“Over the past several years, the hanover emergency response community had a number of our members suffer various illness and injuries which cost them the ability to work for prolonged periods. The financial hardship this created for our responders and their families made us realize that we needed a means to aid our brothers and sisters when benefits run out and coverage fails. The foundation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to present or past members of the hanover emergency response community, and their immediate family members, and the hanover emergency response community in large. The purpose of the fund is to provide aid in times of financial crisis, hardships or emergency situations to hanover county emergency responders, uniformed and civilian, both active and retired and hle and department full members in good standing, as well as, their immediate families.”

“Crisis relief - this initiative is geared to provide assistance to our hanover emergency responders, in the form of grants, during times of finanical crisis due to either physical or mental issues related to their service to the jurisdiction. These grants are available to all affiliated hanover emergency responders in good standing. Health & wellness - this program is designed to aid and assist local provider organizations in importing, developing, and offering those programs/seminairs/classes designed to promote healthy alternatives. The foundation offers assistance in either researching or funding these opportunities to promote provider health. Community interaction - members of our board of directors are committed to being active in our community to help raise awareness to the plight our emergency responders face. We offer educational presentations on the foundation, and can facilitate informational meetings on our affiliates to various civic and corporate organizations. Scholarship - this program is established to further the educational opportunities for the spouse and/or children of our hanover emergency responders in the form of annual grants to further their studies in a related field. Applicants will compete for one of several awards to higher learning institutions. Fundraising - our main fundraiser is our pars4ours golf tournament (see homepage for link). We are developing a challenge cookoff between metro region emergency response groups to raise funds for our scholarship program. Remembrance and memorial - while we endeavor, as emergency responders, to ensure everyone goes home, the sad truth is that it is not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when" we lose a member of the community. This fund strives to ensure that the responders we loose, either in the line of duty or not, are remembered and not forgotten”