The Spirit of Giving

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Can’t decide what fund to support today? Give to the Crawford Impact Fund for #Giving2sday. This fund has awarded more than $5.7 million to our local community since 1984. Help us to support the dreams and goals of the Crawford County community into the future.

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This year the Foundation’s two #Giving2sday Contests will be giving away six (6) prizes worth $500 each!

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Today there are two #Giving2sday Donation Collection sites in Crawford County. We have a secure dropbox behind our building at the Foundation at 254 E. Mansfield Street in Bucyrus. Our lobby will be closed, but we will be checking our secure mailbox regularly on #Giving2sday.  For those closer to Crestline, drop your gift off at the Crestline Public Library from 11am-1pm today only. Online donations are accepted until 11:59 PM. For more details about #Giving2sday or to make a donation, visit our website https://cfcrawford.networkforgood.com. #Giving2sday #LoveCrawfordGiveCrawford #TCF4CC #GivingTuesday

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Starting a fundraising page is fast, fun, and easy! In less than 5 minutes, you can be on your way to collecting money to support your favorite fund(s) at the Foundation. Simply use the tools we provide to ask for donations from your family, friends and contacts via email and social media. To start a fundraising page, make a donation, or for more details about #Giving2sday, visit our website https://cfcrawford.networkforgood.com. We would like to thank all the individuals who have started fundraising pages and are currently fundraising for their favorite fund(s) at the Foundation. We are extremely grateful! #Giving2sday #LoveCrawfordGiveCrawford #TCF4CC #GivingTuesday #grateful

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The wait is over! #Giving2sday is here! Make a donation that will generate a second gift to the fund(s) of your choice. Donate online, by mail, or drop off your check, dated 11/30/21, in our secure dropbox located behind the Foundation at 254 E. Mansfield Street, Bucyrus, Ohio 44820. If you are closer to Crestline, drop off your donation at the Crestline Public Library between 11am and 1pm today. For more details about #Giving2sday or to make a donation, visit our website, https://cfcrawford.networkforgood.com. #Giving2sday #LoveCrawfordGiveCrawford #TCF4CC #GivingTuesday

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For the seventh year, The Community Foundation for Crawford County is participating in #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media. It is always celebrated the 1^st Tuesday after Thanksgiving – which this year falls on November 30. Since participants are encouraged to embrace the day and make it their own, the Foundation calls it “#Giving2sday” as their Board sets aside a lump sum of money from which a second gift is generated for each donation. The “2” in the title is to help donors remember that their gift will inspire a second one. This year, the Foundation’s portion of that prorated match has been added to by The Mason Companies, E-Z-Go (a Textron Company), and Apex Clean Energy for a total pool of $32,500 to be distributed to participating Foundation funds.

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(Photo: Judi Saurers presents the Spirit of Philanthropy Award to Andrea Barnes, Director of Environmental Health and interim Health Commissioner of Galion City Health Department, and Health Commissioner Kate Siefert of Crawford County Public Health.)

Every year, The Community Foundation for Crawford County accepts nominations for their Spirit of Philanthropy award, which is given to a person or entity who gives back to our community – either with monetary gifts and/or their time and service. This year, they are awarding the Spirit of Philanthropy Award to Crawford County Public Health and Galion City Health Department. Last year’s award recipient, Judi Saurers, presented the 2021 award to the two health departments on November 22, which was also National Public Health Thank You Day.

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November 12-18 is National Community Foundation Week, and The Community Foundation for Crawford County wants to use this time to raise awareness of their local impact and the importance of community foundations in general. Community Foundations hold endowment funds that provide a perpetual source of income for nonprofit organizations. They also hold scholarship funds which seek to alleviate college debt, as well as increase our education attainment level. Finally, they are also a grantmaking public charity dedicated to improving the quality of lives for their community. Here locally, those grants have differed greatly in purpose and include everything from helping North Central State College Foundation with the Crawford Success Center, giving to the American Red Cross to help local families after house fires, and even granting from a COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund to tackle the immediate needs of local nonprofit organizations who were negatively impacted. Community foundations are also working more and more with local entities that drive economic and community development, like the Crawford Partnership. Such collaboration led the Foundation and the Partnership to start the community’s first social impact fund, the Program Related Investment (PRI) Fund. Local donors contributed the money and the PRI Fund offers zero interest loans to small businesses that have been financially impacted since the pandemic.

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The Bucyrus Rotary Club announces and congratulates its second Memorial Scholarship recipient of this year, Delaney Strickland.

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