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Members of the community attend the West Chester Area Education Foundation’s Annual Breakfast at Rustin High School. East Bradford Elementary teacher Eileen Hutchinson and students discuss Math Convention Day, which was funded by a grant from the West Chester Area Education Foundation.

WEST CHESTER >> The West Chester Area Education Foundation held its 5th Annual Breakfast Friday at the Bayard Rustin High School.

According to West Chester Area School District Superintendent James Scanlon, the purpose of the breakfast was to help the attendees understand the foundation, what is does and how it helps the district’s students.

“One of the things the West Chester Area School District strives to do is to help students make connections between what’s being taught in the classroom and the ‘real world’ and life beyond our schools. The West Chester Area Education Foundation is helping to make this happen,” Scanlon wrote to potential attendees.

According to Scanlon, the Education Foundation has raised more than $150,000 the past four years to provide nearly $100,000 for West Chester Area School District (WCASD) classroom mini-grants, nearly $40,000 to send WCASD students to Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week to work with business leaders from across the state, and thousands of dollars to provide students with internship experiences with the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry. “The West Chester Area Education Foundation is working hard to fill that void.” I thought it was phenomenal hearing from these students they exhibit passion in the things that they have done with the Education Foundation grants.”

According to LaRusso, they each planted a tree on a coffee farm so they could have this authentic, legitimate experience that they could relate back to what they were doing by selling coffee to help get the message across to customers in regard to how their coffee helps farmers. “When you look at what the Education Foundation is doing, it’s doing exactly what companies and education are meant to do together to give back. We’re a 32 billion dollar organization and the third largest privately owned company in the world, and it’s being run by someone who started in West Chester and worked their way to the top.

Ever onward, Pittsburgh: Neil Alexander showed that charitable giving is more than check writing | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette So they sprang into action and, within an hour, two of the foundation’s most dedicated donors who had supported vulnerable populations in the past signed on, providing an additional $150,000 to the match pool.

I’m happy to report that the community foundation field, after years of pigeonholing donors as check writers, is finally seeing their value as advisers, advocates and activists in fact, as the real assets of a community foundation in which institutional and donor grantmaking are skillfully aligned.

Just one month before his death, Neil and his family were center stage as the University of Pittsburgh’s Brain Institute announced a Live Like Lou partnership as part of a new $10 million research center.

All of us at The Pittsburgh Foundation are sad that such a rich and giving life has ended, but we also feel fortunate that we can play a role in continuing Neil’s legacy.

We at the foundation intend to be guided by that as we invest more resources in the Center for Philanthropy that we set up a few years ago to facilitate collaboration among donors and our staff members. We believe the center will enable donors to act on their philanthropic passions to the same degree that Neil and Suzanne have by becoming full partners in thinking through community priorities and problems, and with full access to foundation resources.

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Individual giving and community philanthropy are vital to Minnesota, and the Endow Minnesota tax credit sits squarely at the intersection of individual giving, community philanthropy and Minnesota’s future.

Endow Minnesota gives Minnesotans an opportunity to make a greater impact by contributing to permanent endowments at community foundations that provide community support in perpetuity. Community foundations in Minnesota grant about $160 million annually.

Locally, the Central Minnesota Community Foundation and its affiliate partner foundations serving Alexandria, the Brainerd Lakes area and the Willmar area engage people and connect resources to help build better communities. The bills encourage individual giving to permanent endowment funds at community foundations and have the potential to make $120 million per year in private philanthropy available to support community and economic development projects across the state.

With Endow Minnesota, those contributing to permanent endowment funds of local community foundations would receive a 25 percent tax credit for gifts between $5,000 and $100,000 annually.

Guest column: Sculpture honoring iconic Muskegon lumber schooner gaining donor support | MLive.com Guest column: Sculpture honoring iconic Muskegon lumber schooner gaining donor support

John Hermanson of North Muskegon — a longtime West Michigan advertising executive — is the grandson of a former captain of the Muskegon lumber schooner the Lyman M. Davis.

By John Hermanson

NORTH MUSKEGON, MI — “You’ll never do it!”

When my wife Barb and I last fall announced to the Muskegon community that we were going to raise $144,000 to erect a sculpture to the memory of the famous ship Lyman M.

To celebrate that history, we want to add to the beauty of our new downtown by erecting a commemorative sculpture in the traffic circle that leads to Terrace Point and Parkland Properties’ magnificent new residential development on Muskegon Lake — Terrace Point Landing.

So we partnered with the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, and to date we have raised over $93,000.

Reynolds Foundation winding up years of giving | Reading Eagle – AP

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The Incourage Community Foundation building on East Grand Avenue was home to a number of different businesses during the last 75-plus years.(Photo: NANCY QUICK/For Daily Tribune Media)Buy Photo

In celebration of south Wood County’s rich history, Vintage Venues a a Daily Tribune weekly feature a puts the spotlight on the past and the story behind some of the most historically significant local sites.

Incourage Community Foundation, 478 E. Grand Ave.

Built: 1948

History: The construction of the Incourage Community Foundation building started 67 years ago, with the work done in six phases as the owners added space as needed. The first occupants were doctors, followed by attorneys; today Incourage Community Foundation occupies half of the building.

The medical offices were on the east side of the building and many doctors had offices in the building during the years, starting with Dr. When they left, it remained empty until Incourage Community Foundation rented the space in 1998.

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The Incourage Community Foundation building on East Grand Avenue was home to a number of different businesses during the last 75-plus years. We believe in the people who live here, and in the Community Foundation’s ability to build a strong community.”

Interesting fact: Today the Metcalf and Quinn law office is on the first floor of the east side of the building and Cours Financial office is on the second floor of the east side.

NEWTOWN — Two years removed from the worst tragedy the town has ever seen, residents report that community spirit is strengthening in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.

But while some residents can say they feel more connected to their hometown and more optimistic about its future, others point to fractures in the community, because people are recovering at different speeds or because those without a direct connection to the tragedy feel guilty about asking for help.

The seemingly contradictory assessment of where Newtown stands in its struggle to overcome the trauma of the 2012 school shootings is contained in a new survey of 1,000 people, conducted by the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation.

A key finding in the survey is what the foundation’s executive director calls a “hierarchy of impact” — a belief among townspeople that only those who lost loved ones on Dec.

In response to questions about the direction of the town, the strength of the community and prospects for the future, more than 70 percent said they felt strongly or somewhat strongly that Newtown was gaining ground.

For example, 89 percent of respondents said they felt very connected or somewhat connected to the community.

But in another part of the survey, 21 percent said there were barriers that kept them from getting treatment. “I still believe that.”

Becker added that Newtown’s conflicting picture of cohesiveness and dissension in the survey results is commonplace for communities where a mass crisis has occurred.

The solution, he said, is to encourage people to get involved and make connections with neighbors.

The foundation has been promoting the same message in its programs.

“Connection is what heals trauma,” Barahona said.

rryser@newstimes.com; 203-731-3342

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