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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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(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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The 2023 Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree nonprofit application is online and available now through June 26 at ACCFGivingSpree.org
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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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