We Give Back!
Rob Bernardin
Rob was recently appointed to serve as the president of the board of the YMCA in Evansville due to his strong leadership skills, his deep commitment to community service, and his vision for fostering a supportive, inclusive environment. Under his leadership, the YMCA will continue to prioritize community giveback through enhanced programs focused on health, education, and welfare, ensuring that the organization remains a pivotal resource for community development and support.
Rob, along with 10 other community leaders participated in Aurora’s 48 Hours in the Life: Homeless Experience Project. Click the video on the left to hear Rob's experience.
Rob, along with 10 other community leaders participated in Aurora’s 48 Hours in the Life: Homeless Experience Project. Click the link below to read more about this initivative.
Stacia Miller
Away from work, Stacia channels her compassion and energy into impactful community service. Stacia's engagement with Big Brothers Big Sisters on Baird Gives Back day reflects her broader commitment to community involvement, emphasizing her willingness to make a positive difference in the community.
Her dedication to service is further exemplified by her annual visits to Biloxi, Mississippi, where she immerses herself in volunteering activities. Stacia's commitment to the community there is a reflection of her family's legacy of service; her parents (John and Pam Small) are celebrated figures within the Biloxi community and beyond, having been honored with the Lou and Mary Anna Speller Humanitarian Service Award that recognizes their volunteer efforts for homelessness, hunger insecurity, immigrants and migrants, eviction cycles, poverty, those incarcerated, disaster relief, domestic violence and those facing mental health challenges. This prestigious acknowledgment highlights the extensive and impactful nature of their dedication to helping others. Inspired by this legacy, Stacia's ongoing involvement in Biloxi with Back Bay Mission, showcases her deep-rooted commitment to fostering community welfare and extending her family's tradition of making a difference.
Roshan Tamang
On July 22nd - July 26th 2024, Roshan, along with 13 other volunteers from across the country recently traveled to Belize to volunteer with the JD Sheth Foundation and Hand in Hand Ministries. Their mission was to build a home for a single mother and her 2-year old child. Over the course of a week, Roshan and the team built a one-bedroom house complete with a bathroom and kitchen, providng a safe and stable environment for the mother to turn it into a home. Their dedication and hard work made a significant impact, offering hope and a fresh start for the mother and daughter.
Organizations Our Team and Baird Foundation Supports
Our team is actively involved in a variety of charitable efforts, raging from local community services to supporting national and global causes. This culture and tradition of giving back is not just encouraged, its celeberated within Baird. We take pride in the diversity of our community engagement efforts, recognzing that each contribution, no matter the size, has the potential to create a ripple effet of possitive change. Click the link below to learn more about Baird's tradition of giving back!
Riley's Children Hospital
Riley Children's Health is Indiana’s largest and most skilled pediatric system, with over 50 locations across the state. As one of the nation’s leading healthcare networks specifically for children, our multidisciplinary team of pediatric primary care and specialists can deliver and coordinate healthcare for every child because we have expertise in all areas of pediatric health.
Camden Hancock Foundation
The Camden Hancock Foundation was created to honor the late Camden Hancock who lost his short battle with brain cancer on October 2, 2018.
USI Foundation Board
October 2018 marked 50 years for the University of Southern Indiana Foundation. Within that time, the USI Foundation's mission statement has remained the same: to attract, acquire, and manage donors’ charitable gifts to support and sustain the goals of the University of Southern Indiana.
The YMCA
The YMCA of Southwestern Indiana is a volunteer-founded, volunteer-led organization that contributes to the lives of boys and girls, and men and women of all ages, races, religions, and economic backgrounds. We are a not-for-profit organization with the unique opportunity to touch the lives of infants through seniors throughout the community.
West Side Nut Club
Every October the West Side Nut Club organizes and sponsors a mammoth Fall Festival in Evansville, IN. This is a week-long gala on the west side along Franklin Street with free entertainment, carnival attractions, over 137 food booths, amateur talent competitions and on the last day, a huge parade. This event attracts over 200,000 people to the West Side & is considered to be one of the largest street festivals in the United States.
Habit for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps people in your community and around the world build or improve a place they can call home.
JD Sheth Foundation
The JD Sheth Foundation is a project to project based organization focusing on the education, health, and well being of others, specifically children and the elderly, here in the United States and across the globe.
American Brain Tumor Association
The American Brain Tumor Association is the nation’s oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to brain tumor education, support and research.
P47 Foundation
The Evansville P-47 Foundation is a not-for-profit, organization dedicated to preserving and protecting an Evansville-built P-47 Thunderbolt. The Foundation works very closely with the Evansville Wartime Museum to achieve this mission.
100 Guys Who Care
100 Guys Who Care Evansville is a group of 100+ guys on a mission to improve our community by donating to local charities and non-profits. We are a “non-organization” that has no board of directors, no tax ID, and no bank account. None of the money runs through us, it all goes directly to the charities.
United Caring Shelter
United Caring Services is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization based in Evansville, Indiana. They are a homeless shelter and services agency that provides people in need with access to crisis stabilization services through six life-saving programs.
Aurora Homeless Services
Aurora is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the homeless and near homeless in the Greater Evansville, IN area. Each year, we serve over 500 individuals: men, women, children, those with disabilities, and the re-entry population.
Wounded Warrior
Wounded Warrior Project is a nonprofit organization for veterans and active duty service members.
Hunterseven Foundation
Hunterseven Foundation's is to honor the service and sacrifice of military veterans by tirelessly working towards a future where they can lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are dedicated to preventing and detecting cancer at its earliest stages through rigorous research, comprehensive education, and accessible medical screening programs.
Santa Clothes Club
The Santa Clothes Club provides new clothes for disadvantaged children in the Tri-State area, from Kindergarten through 6th grade, who would not otherwise be warmly clothed.
JDRF
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds to support and promote diabetes research.
Mater Dei High School
Mater Dei High School or Evansville Mater Dei High School is a private Catholic high school on the west side of Evansville, Indiana, constructed in 1949.
Evansville Day School
Evansville Day School is a private, Jr. PreK-12 college-preparatory school located in Evansville, Indiana in the United States. It is the only independent, coeducational day school in Evansville and the surrounding region.
United Way
United Way is an international network of over 1,800 local nonprofit fundraising affiliates. Prior to 2015, United Way was the largest nonprofit organization in the United States by donations from the public.
Hangers
Hangers is a clothing resource committed to serving EVSC students in need by providing them every-day living essentials that would otherwise be unaffordable.