James A. Henderson Award for Fund-Raising

2010 James A. Henderson Award for Fund-raising Recipient

Jeff Blasdel was named the recipient of the 2010 James A. Henderson Award for Fundraising at the Heritage Fund Annual Report to the Community May 20, 2010. As the visionary and creator of the Kiwanis Incredible Duck Splash (K.I.D.S.) in Columbus, Jeff has made quite a “splash” of his own in the community. Due to his leadership and organizational skills, Jeff has managed each year since 2004 to “beg, borrow or buy over 10,000 little rubber ducks”, coordinate scheduling with the DNR, Swift Water Rescue Team, and local police departments, corral hundreds of volunteers to label ducks, transport ducks and set up the course, arrange for fisherman to donate time to pick up ducks and, actually manage the race. To date, organizations in our community have benefited with almost $225,000 being raised to support at least 38 youth programs! Jeff was nominated by the Kiwanis Clubs of Bartholomew County.