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YCF requests applicants for 2014 scholarship awards – Doddridge and Harrison counties
Since our beginning, Your Community Foundation has awarded more than $700,000 in scholarship assistance to students in the North Central West Virginia region. Again this year, we are requesting applicants for scholarships to be awarded to students from Doddridge, Harrison. Marion, Monongalia and Preston counties and elsewhere in the region.
YCF requests applicants for 2014 scholarship awards – Marion County and regional
Scholarship applicants requested from Marion County and the region.
YCF requests applicants for 2014 scholarship awards – Monongalia and Preston counties
Scholarship applicants requested from Monongalia and Preston counties.
President/CEO Job Search
President/CEO Your Community Foundation- Your Community Foundation, Inc. (YCF) seeks an experienced and dynamic professional to direct its financial activities and all aspects of foundation management.
Beth Fuller to retire as Your Community Foundation president
Beth Fuller, who has served as president of Your Community Foundation (YCF) since 2010, has announced her retirement from that position.
Her retirement is effective January 1, but she will continue the work of the Foundation until July 1 or until a replacement is ready to take over as president.
Mon General, YCF partner in matching grant program
The Mon General Hospital Foundation Board has approved a transfer of $20,000 to Your Community Foundation (YCF) for the benefit of Milan Puskar Health Right, subject to a matching $20,000 being raised by YCF.
Matching grant would help Empty Bowls feed the area’s hungry
Empty Bowls Monongalia has been offered $4,000 in matching funds for its Empty Bowls Endowment Fund, managed by Your Community Foundation (YCF).
The funds will be donated by First United Bank & Trust and other private donors provided that YCF can acquire a matching amount of contributions from the community. Together, the matching grants will be used to build the endowment fund that helps to feed the hungry in Monongalia County.
Scholarship fund to benefit Harrison County students, future teachers
Catherine Flynn Morrison spent her 46-year teaching career in a small country school where many of her students came from less fortunate backgrounds. She took those children under her wing and worked tirelessly to help prepare them for a college education, especially to become school teachers like herself.
To honor that legacy, a scholarship fund has been created through Your Community Foundation (YCF) that will benefit hard-working Harrison County students who want to become teachers and may need financial help to attend college.
University High student’s Little Toy Train Fund plays Santa at Christmas
When Cassidy Seamon was in the third grade, she had a cousin who was ill and in the hospital at Christmas time. She asked her mother Doreen if Santa could take the gifts intended for her and deliver them instead to other children who had to be in the hospital over Christmas.
“So my mom and I went shopping,” Cassidy said. “We bought some toys and some clothing items and we took them to Children’s Hospital on Christmas Day. I can still remember giving a teddy bear to a little girl and seeing how happy she was. It was a special experience for me.”
Family starts Martin Lund Hansen Fund to aid water rescue
At the entrance to a memorial in Copenhagen, Denmark, is an engraving that reads, “Et Tid, Et Sted, En Menneske.” The English translation is, “One moment, one place, one person.” For Cynthia Field, that moment was June 21, 2013, at 3:07 p.m., the place was Cheat Lake and the person was Martin Lund Hansen.