Sue Hubster remembered for her impact on Community Foundation
The Dubois County Community Foundation is mourning the loss of Emeritus Board Member Sue Hubster.
Hubster was a nine year member of the Board of Directors, serving most recently as Vice President for the merged Dubois County Community Foundation. She was named an Emeritus (Lifetime) Member by the Board this past January.
Hubster’s legacy, however, is her role in evolving the grant-making program for the Community Foundation from reactive, smaller grants to more proactive and catalytic funding partnerships with area nonprofits. “As Chairperson of the Grants, she never went it alone–always having a Co-Chair or Co-Collaborator on every project,” said Brad Ward, CEO of the Community Foundation. “She believed in embracing change and making it work for you, and she helped many do just that through her leadership in the grants and, more importantly, the merger of the two Community Foundations in this county.”
Hubster’s most recent involvement was with the final segment of the ArtWorks Initiative. The final grant from the initiative focuses on the arts through a cultural lens and Hubster was instrumental in the selection of the American Latin Association of Southern Indiana (A.L.A.S.I.) to receive the final $8,000 grant to be detailed in the coming days.
Hubster was named Chairperson for the Grants Committee at the former Huntingburg Foundation in 2009. During her tenure, the Foundation launched the ArtWorks Initiative, a progressive grants strategy to increase participation and appreciation for the arts in Southwest Dubois County. The initiative culminated in a $24,000 investment in grants to local nonprofits.
“In the coming years it might be forgotten that Sue was a driving force behind so many profound advancements in the Community Foundation’s history—from the introduction of several key initiatives to the merger of our two Community Foundations,” Ward said.
“Sue implemented the groundwork for this organization to become a true ‘agent of change’ for the County, and the fruits of her labors are still being realized and will be for generations.”
