Greenwood’s largest park and youth education programs with the city’s police and fire departments are just a few of the beneficiaries from an inaugural festival held this past summer.

The Sertoma Club of Greenwood has donated proceeds from the first WAMMfest (WAMM stands for Wine, Art, Music and Microbrew) on Aug. 22 at Craig Park.

The group raised $20,000 for causes across the community.

A donation of $4,000 to the Greenwood Fire Department’s fire prevention education program “will help out tremendously,” said Tracy Rumble, a fire prevention specialist with the department.

The department typically spends about $7,500 a year on educational supplies for the program, which reaches about 4,000 children in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade at 10 schools.

Fire officials visit schoolchildren twice a year: a fall visit is focused on fire-prevention education, and a visit in the spring highlights severe-weather alertness.

“I think if you look around to cities comparable to our size, Greenwood has a very low fire rate,” Rumble said. “I think we have contributed to that by getting out and educating children.”

At a Sertoma meeting this month, Friends Forever, an organization that honors the memory of three former Center Grove students who died in a fire at Indiana University in 2004, presented Greenwood fire officials with the donation, according to a news release from Sertoma.

The Greenwood Police Department will receive $4,000 for its D.A.R.E program, which targets fifth-grade students and is taught for 16 weeks by uniformed police officers.

The classes, offered since 1990, focus on self-esteem, consequences of behavior and avoiding dangerous and illegal situations, with an emphasis on saying “no” to inappropriate peer pressure, according to the department’s Web site.

In addition, Sertoma donated $1,000 to Greenwood parks officials for membership scholarships to the community center, which will allow 40 children to attend the center, the release stated. Also, $5,000 was given to the Parks Department for trees and/or equipment at Freedom Park on the city’s southwest side.

Despite intermittent rain, about 3,500 people attended WAMMfest, which featured locally brewed beer and wine as well as food and entertainment, including a performance by amateur artists.

Sertoma Club officials said they plan to use the rest of the money raised at the inaugural WAMMfest for their student scholarship program.

The club, a local philanthropic group, is in discussion with city officials about staging a second WAMMfest next summer.