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Photo/Charlie Spiering OFFICE SPACE: Three nonprofit leaders enjoy their new headquarters. Pictured from left to right are Melanie Kopjanski from the Rappahannock NonProfit Center, Susann Graham from the Rappahannock County Conservation Alliance and Bev Hunter with RappFLOW.
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Kopjanski said that one of the main goals of the RNPC was to find a place where people could discover more about the County’s non-profit organizations. The RNPC’s primary mission is to help support non-profit groups within the county by assisting them with managing skills, human recourses, and financial fund raisers. “There are so many options for volunteers in this county,” Kopjanski said.
She believes that the new office space will be a key step in further organizing Rappahannock Non-profits. “Now we actually have a work space for volunteers and a conference room for meetings,” she said proudly. “The best part will be the ability to spend time together in the same building throwing around ideas and brainstorming.”
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Kopjanski was raised in the county, and graduated from Rappahannock County High School before leaving to attend college at the University of Virginia. After college she moved to New Jersey beginning a career with AT&T. It wasn’t long before she returned to Rappahannock County in search of her roots. “I really wanted to return to the county and raise my kids in the same place that I grew up,” Kopjanski said. She is the mother of four children who currently attend Rappahannock Public Schools. Since she returned to Rappahannock she has been involved in other non-profit organizations over the years before becoming the new executive director of the RNPC.
“I like to say that I spent the first half of my career working in the profit sector and the second half of my career working
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