Community Foundation Awards $160K in scholarships

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Miss Pensylvania, Alysa Bainbridge (center) helped the Adams County Community Foundation honor its 2023 Scholars and Scholarship Fund Donors at its annual scholarship breakfast at the Gettysburg Wyndham. The celebration was sponsored by Fred and Susi Guinn. (Gettysburg, PA: 05/03/2023) – The Adams County Community Foundation today announced $160,000 in new scholarship awards to students […]

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Community Foundation Awards $120,000 In Competitive Grants

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(Gettysburg, PA: 04/26/2023)  — With gratitude to its generous donors, the Adams County Community Foundation (the Community Foundation) has announced $120,000.00 in grants through its Adams County Grants program. These grants help local nonprofits become more effective, move low-income residents toward self-sufficiency, and support collaborative projects that advance affordable housing, transportation, and economic development. Adams

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Fund for the Environment Awards Grants

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(Gettysburg, PA: 04/22/2023) — In recognition of Earth Day 2023, the Adams County Community Foundation awarded $13,500 in grants through its Adams County Fund for the Environment to support environmental stewardship in Adams County. The Fund for the Environment selected three projects, awarding grants to the County of Adams to establish a glass recycling collection

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Scholarship Breakfast May 3

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The Adams County Community Foundation Board of Directors and Scholarship Committee is excited to invite our scholarship donors, scholarship award winners and their guests to the Adams County Scholarship Awards Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at the Wyndham Gettysburg, 95 Presidential Circle, Gettysburg, PA. We’ll be joined by the current Miss

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Endowments Provide Crucial Support

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At the Adams County Community Foundation, our Giving Spree, Scholarships and Adams County Grants program get a lot of accolades, but our Designated Endowment Program is equally awesome.   This year, designated endowments awarded $161,600 and benefited 36 local nonprofits. These funds, supported by many donors, provide unrestricted operating grants to individual nonprofits. The Community

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Register for March 7 Investment Briefing (Zoom)

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Virtual 2023 Investment Briefing to Focus on Endowment’s Long-term Strategy Please Join the Adams County Community Foundation by Zoom on Tuesday morning, March 7 at 8am for our 2023 Investment Briefing. Click here to register. Once you register, you will receive the event Zoom link. Members of our Investment Committee will share details on our

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Scholarship Applications Opens January 1

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Graduating Adams County seniors can apply for more than one hundred local scholarships through the Adams County Community Foundation Scholarship Program beginning January 1, 2023. To apply, students simply create their personal student profile and complete one application by March 15 to be automatically matched to local scholarships. Community Foundation scholarships support students furthering their

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