Foundation Supports Local Police – Aransas Pass Progress: News
The Coastal Bend Foundation in Aransas Pass supports local departments, organizations and schools, and most recently, the CBF donated money to the Aransas Pass and Ingleside Police Departments to upgrade their automated external defibrillators.
Each year CBF donates a percentage of their funds to different organizations outside of the scholarships they give out to Aransas Pass High School seniors.
In 1980, two hospitals were located in Aransas Pass, and Ben Pate, who was the administrator of one of the hospitals, decided it was time to combine the hospitals and build a new hospital. The CBF was originally known as the Coastal Bend Hospital Foundation back in the 1980s when two hospitals were located in Aransas Pass.
The original foundation was known as the Coastal Bend Hospital Foundation which was created to raise funds to build a new hospital. The board of directors for the Coastal Bend Hospital Foundation adopted a bond resolution of $9 million for the new hospital. After the hospital foundation reached a buy-sell agreement for LifeMark Corporation to purchase the assets of the hospital for over $10 million, the foundation removed the word hospital.
Since 1984, the foundation has granted over $2.1 million in donations, contributions and grants to Aransas Pass, Ingleside and the surrounding communities.
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