Earlier this year, a dear friend of mine died suddenly. She was one of the most generous people I knew. Generous of heart and humor, and generous of monetary gifts to the nonprofits and community she loved. In her late 60’s, after she retired as a scientific lab technician, she launched a second career as […]
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 financial planning, one who included talk of philanthropy in his sessions with clients. Whenever I met a donor referred to the Community Foundation by Randy,
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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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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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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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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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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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Let’s not bury the lede: Scholarship Displacement, the practice of schools reducing a student’s financial aid by the amount of the student’s private scholarship, is now banned at Pennsylvania’s public colleges and universities. Banning this practice helps high achieving students with financial need earn a college degree and graduate without mortgaging their future with soul-crushing
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