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Scholarship Application Opens January 1

Leave a Comment / Scholarship News, Uncategorized / Ralph Serpe

Graduating Adams County seniors can apply for more than one hundred local scholarships totaling more than $200,000 in awards through the Adams County Community Foundation Scholarship Program beginning January 1, 2024. To apply, students simply create their personal student profile and complete one application by March 15 here: https://www.adamscountycf.org/grants-scholarships/scholarships/ to be automatically matched to local […]

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2023 Year-end Office Hours and Gift Deadlines

Leave a Comment / Donation Event, News / Ralph Serpe

The staff of the Adams County Community Foundation is available to provide answers, process transactions and help you complete your year-end charitable giving until the last day of the year. Our offices will be closed on Monday, December 25, but will be open for business weekdays through Friday, December 29. 2023 Year-end Giving Deadlines You

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Fund Preserves the Spirit of “Mr. Majestic”

Leave a Comment / News, Philanthropy Blog / Ralph Serpe

Founding executive directors are often synonymous with the nonprofits they’ve built. When it comes to Jeffrey Gabel and the Majestic Theater, it’s hard to imagine one without the other. That’s why, when Jeffrey Gabel announced his retirement from the Majestic in February, there was an immediate sense of disbelief that has turned to a chorus

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Giving Spree is “Three for Three”

Leave a Comment / Giving Spree, Philanthropy Blog / Ralph Serpe

For the third year running, the people of Adams County made their generosity known, surpassing $3 million in donations during the Community Foundation’s annual Giving Spree. While the amount of contributions echoed prior years, the 2023 Giving Spree was propelled by a new kind of energy, with a return to the in-person festival style event

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2023 Giving Spree Information

Leave a Comment / Giving Spree, Uncategorized / Ralph Serpe

The Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree is Adams County’s Day of Giving! We’re back in person on November 9, 2023 at the Gettysburg Area Middle School The 2023 Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree gives you the opportunity to learn about and support 100 nonprofit organizations working to make a difference here in Adams

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Give Now. Give Big. Giving Spree!

Leave a Comment / Donor & Volunteer Event, Giving Spree, Philanthropy Blog / Ralph Serpe

We are ready for the 2023 edition of one of our community’s greatest annual events and we need your help. For more than a dozen years, the Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree has been Adams County’s day of giving: the day when everyone in the community comes together to learn about local nonprofits and

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Giving with No Strings Attached

Leave a Comment / Philanthropy Blog / Ralph Serpe

This morning our community foundation received a generous gift. The donor asked us to use the gift where it is needed most and requested not to be named. Building our community grantmaking endowment is a high priority for the community foundation and so we directed the gift to the Fund for Adams County. Philanthropy is

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Investing in Scholars, Not just Scholarships

Leave a Comment / Philanthropy Blog / Ralph Serpe

We were excited to honor more than sixty exceptional students and their parents from across Adams County at the Community Foundation last month where we awarded more than $160,000 on behalf of our donors. But we took some heat on social media for not posting a “visibly diverse” photo of our scholarship winners. In fact,

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Selby Fund Awards Grants through the Fund for Littlestown

Leave a Comment / Grant Announcement, News / Ralph Serpe

(Littlestown, PA: 05/30/2023) — The late Dick Selby created The Bernard, Mary and Richard Selby Family Memorial Fund as a permanent charitable endowment to honor his parents, Mary and Bernard, and the family’s commitment to their hometown of Littlestown. Each year the Fund distributes charitable grants to nonprofits serving Littlestown, including three organizations that were

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Giving Spree Planning Starts NOW!

Leave a Comment / Philanthropy Blog / Ralph Serpe

On Your Mark, Get Set . . . Giving Spree Planning Starts NOW! We are at the starting gate for the 2023 edition of one of our community’s greatest annual events. For more than a dozen years, the Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree has been Adams County’s day of giving: the day when everyone

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