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The Adams County Community Foundation promotes and facilitates charitable giving in Adams County, PA through grantmaking, initiatives and advocacy. Since 2007, the Community Foundation has granted more than $32 million [...]
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Scholarship Breakfast May 1
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 [...]
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Salute our Community Coaches
I’ve been thinking a lot about Randy Smith, whom we lost to cancer this January. I knew Randy as a professional advisor who took a holistic and compassionate view of [...]
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Investment Briefing set for March 5
Join the Adams County Community Foundation on Tuesday morning, March 5 at 8 AM for our 2024 Investment Briefing at Adams County Historical Society’s Battlefield Overlook Event Center, 625 Biglerville [...]
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Nonprofit Seminar: Understanding Designated Endowments on Feb 29
During the 2023 Giving Spree, donors directed more than $550,000 to new or existing endowments designated for Giving Spree nonprofit participants. Learn how designated endowments work and how your donors [...]
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Community Foundation Strengthens Local Nonprofits with $100,000 in New Grants
(Gettysburg, PA: 12/26/2023 — The Adams County Community Foundation has announced $100,000 in grants to local nonprofits through its Adams County Grants program, adding to the $120,000 awarded earlier this [...]
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Scholarship Application Opens January 1
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, [...]
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2023 Year-end Office Hours and Gift Deadlines
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. [...]
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Fund Preserves the Spirit of “Mr. Majestic”
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 [...]
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Giving Spree is “Three for Three”
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 [...]
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