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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When my nephew and his wife married five years ago, they emphatically announced there would be no children. He travels extensively for work and coaches football. She teaches elementary school and is working toward a PhD. They lead full, busy lives. No need for anyone (especially their moms) to repeatedly ask, “When are you two
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In my twenties, I spent a few years as a hospital volunteer at a large university hospital. Each week I’d spend ten hours a night on Friday and Saturday, visiting with patients too anxious to sleep. My role was to just be. To sit and listen. To make them comfortable until they dosed off or
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As a philanthropic advisor for the Adams County Community Foundation, I meet with professional advisors to learn how their clients think and feel about philanthropy. These individual conversations are my favorite part of this work. Years of working with major donors to local nonprofits helps me recommend ways the Community Foundation can help people give
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The Fund for Adams County is our community’s permanent charitable endowment. Each year grants from the Fund support projects and programs that help you, your neighbors, and friends right here in Adams County. Over the past few years, the Fund for Adams County has supported broadband expansion, recovery house construction, affordable housing options and transportation
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Adams County, take a bow! Our community’s annual day of giving, The Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree, will return on Friday November 5, 2021, marking its eleventh year. Adams County donors broke all prior records with their generosity at last year’s Giving Spree, and I just know this year will once again bring out
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What does “March Madness” mean to you? If you are a basketball lover, you are diligently watching the brackets and hoping your team makes the final four, or two. If you are a graduating high school senior, you are anxiously awaiting word from your first- choice school that confirms you will be part of the
Given the choice between asking people for money to support your community and making grants to support nonprofits who offer help, most people would rather give it away. “I could never ask for money”, many people have told me. “Giving it away seems much more fun.” I’ll let you in on a little secret. Both
