Celebrate Charitable Giving During Community Foundation Week November 12-18
Allegany County Area Foundation is helping our community
The Allegany County Area Foundation will join more than 700 community foundations across the United States in celebrating charitable giving during Community Foundation Week, November 12-18, 2009. In 2007, community foundations gave an estimated $4.1 billion to a variety of nonprofit activities in fields that included arts, education, disaster relief, and health and human services.
Locally, the Allegany County Area Foundation was able to assist many students and organizations including the Tri-Region Science & Engineering Fair, Allegany Arc, Art for Rural America, Alfred Box of Books, the Thelma Rogers Historical and Genealogical Society, Music on the Lawn, Whitesville Public Library, Pioneer Oil Museum, Rushford Free Library and the CORE initiative. All of this was possible because of generous donors.
Community Foundations are at the heart of our cities and towns. We know the places of need in our area, and we can direct resources to solve those problems. Here at the Allegany County Area Foundation, donors can designate where gifts will be used.
“Community foundations are catalysts for positive change within both urban and rural areas, said Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of the Council on Foundations. “Donors of all income levels and from all geographic regions are finding community foundations to be an ideal way for them to easily give back to their community in a meaningful way.”
Across the nation, community foundations help create stronger hometowns where families want to establish roots, with recreational parks, social service programs and scholarship opportunities for promising local students.
Community Foundation Week began in 1989 with a proclamation from former president George H.W. Bush and a congressional briefing about community foundation activities. The observance has made donors seeking to maximize their philanthropic dollars aware of community foundations’ charitable activities and services. For more information on the Allegany County Area Foundation please call 585-307-9918 or visit www.alleganycountyareafoundation.org
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Allegany County Board of Legislators makes a gift to the Foundation.
In recognition of the county-wide nature of the Allegany County Area Foundation the county legislators personally donated $500.
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Foundation Recognition
Allegany County Area Foundation recognized for distributing over $500,000 in scholarships and for excellence in support of the community.
Belmont, NY – July 16, 2009 – Allegany County Area Foundation, a not-for-profit organization which seeks to encourage educational, social, cultural and civic projects benefiting the residents of Allegany County, New York, is pleased to announce that it has been recognized by the New York Dollars for SCHOLARS program. A certificate of appreciation was given to the foundation “In recognition of distributing over $500,000 in scholarships and for excellence in helping the students of our community.”