insurance providers group--ipg

Since its origination in 1997, the PBL Education Foundation has been fortunate to have many loyal supporters.  One such supporter has been Insurance Providers Group.  Since the fall of 2003-04, IPG has donated $50 to the PBL Education Foundation for every touchdown made by the Varsity Panthers football team.   For the 2009-10 season, they again pledged $50 per touchdown with a cap of $1,000.  Since the varsity team scored 23 touchdowns, IPG wrote a check to the PBL Education Foundation for $1,000.

With offices in Paxton, Roberts, Rantoul, Gibson City and Savoy, IPG  was established in 1997 to serve the insurance needs of individuals, families and businesses in East Central Illinois. Co-owners are Mitch Nuss and Dean Swan.  “We continue to believe in PBL academics and athletics and wanted to participate in this exciting program again,” said Nuss.

For the first time during the 2008-09 basketball season, IPG promised to pay $9 to the PBL Education Foundation for every three-point shot made by the boys and girls varsity teams.  IPG set a maximum of $1,000.  Both teams had a tremendous season and surpassed their record of last year.  They made a combined 180 three-point shots bringing the IPG donation to its cap of $1,000.  "This is a great opportunity that IPG made available for the student athletes on the varsity basketball teams," said Travis Duley, PBL girls' basketball coach.  "We constantly stress the importance of focusing on the academic part of student athletes.  This program allowed the girls to bring their academic and athletic lives together by helping fund educational programs in our district by succeeding on the basketball court."

IPG has extended the challenge for the 2009-10 basketball season.  They are contributing $3.00 to the PBL Education Foundation for every three-point shot made during the 2009-2010 regular season by both the girls' and boys' varsity teams.  Funds donated by IPG will be placed in the Foundation's general fund to enhance existing programs, initiate new academic programs or to purchase equipment that will complement the teaching process.

Fraternal Order of Police Make Donation
To PBL Foundation

The Fraternal Order of Police Illini Lodge 17 recently presented the PBL Education Foundation with a check for $500.  Local officers who made the presentation to Scott Allen, Chairman of the Foundation, and Cliff McClure, Superintendent of PBL, were Paxton police office Doug Balk and Ford County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Kaeding.  Doug is a 2000 graduate of PBL High School and Dave is a 1992 Ford-Central graduate.