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Giving back
When a good idea comes to town, it deserves to
succeed. In less than two years, the Northern
Piedmont Community Foundation has grown from $0 to nearly $250,000 in charitable funding.
The NPCF is a tax-exempt organization that makes it easier for persons and organizations with charitable and philanthropic interests to support causes and issues that are important to them.
Working with individual and corporate donors, the NPCF serves as the stewards of these funds, manages grants, and works with the donors to find the most generous tax benefits to which they are entitled.
The NPCF is chaired by Marshall Doeller; David C. Gerrish is the president, and G. Wayne Eastham serves as secretary and treasurer. Douglas K. Baumgardner and J. Clifford Miller III of Rappahannock serve on the board of directors.
Receiving ipitial support from local citizens and philanthropists who saw the need for such a foundation,* the NPCF recently granted two scholarships through the Jesse and Rose Loeb Scholarship Fund, and the Max Tufts Scholarship Award, through the Fauquier Chamber of Commerce.
The Warrenton Rotary Club recently established the Warrenton Rotary Community Fund with the NPCF. After raising money and distributing it to worthy charities for many years, Rotary officers were aware of the need to set up a foundation; but rather than starting their own, the club partnered with the NPCF.
In Rappahannock County, a similar arrangement was worked out with the Ann Spieker Track Foundation Inc., frequently referred to as “Common Ground.”
Their goal is to provide support for the construction, installation and maintenance of track facilities for Rappahannock County public schools. Again, rather than using critical funds to start their own tax-exempt foundation to handle the funds, organizers established the Ann Spieker Track Foundation Fund at the NPCF.
But the advantages are not limited to organizations.
Individuals who wish to honor the memory of a loved one, or want to share part of their estate in order to further a cause, will have an easy means to do so — making it certain that their desires will be carried out in the long term.
Already known for many other things, we could earn the recognition as a people who willingly give back to our communities; who are willing — and able — to take care of our own when the need arises.
The NPCF is making this all much easier, and deserves our support.
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