Ian Christopher Mackey Newman Fund

Jennifer Mackey, a Rio Dell artist and designer, established this endowment fund to honor her son Ian Christopher Mackey Newman. This fund is designed to assist minors who are simultaneously severely physically handicapped and mentally gifted. The goal of the fund is to help expose these promising children to educational and worldly experiences that they might not otherwise be able to experience. Thus, the fund makes grants available to such children for educationally related travel, preferably outside Humboldt County. Previous recipients have used the funds to do such things as travel to Washington, DC to explore the National Air & Space Museum and to Mexico to study the ancient architecture in the region surrounding Mexico City. Ian passed away on January 19, 2010. (1996)