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02 May McPherson Scholastic Chess Club Fund

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[gallery ids="5549,5550,5551,5552,5553,5554,5555,5556,5557,5558,5559,5560,5548"] Last week the Lincoln Elementary Chess program held their end of school year celebration. The program has long been supported by the McPherson Scholastic Chess Club fund here at the Foundation. Grants from the fund have often gone towards the procurement of supplies, including...

02 May We’ve been busy!

Posted at 16:32h in News

Over the last week we’ve had plenty of chances to present our ‘Big Check’ to a few of our April Grant recipients. We also took the opportunity to talk them about the importance of their upcoming projects. If you missed it: We've already posted this on our...

18 Apr Stories from Impact Investing: Carrie Brock

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Dec. 2000, Manhattan, KS - A young Carrie Brock walked into Kedzie hall apprehensive at the conversation she needed to have. Brock, a native of Topeka, KS came to Kansas State University fully set on the idea of becoming a broadcast journalist, but after one semester...

11 Apr Mastermind McPherson communities and their priorities.

Posted at 16:20h in News

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve briefly discussed the priorities that were found in our Mastermind McPherson County Survey. First through how we categorize the priorities and then with how our granting has addressed them. Now we can break down some of the interesting...

11 Apr Foundation to release $418,000 In Apr.

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The McPherson County Community Foundation (MCCF) has announced their grant recipients for Apr. This cycle the Foundation released over $418,000 to organizations across the county. These distributions came from four different community funds, including the yearly grants over $10,000 from the David J. Nutt Fund...

04 Apr Give 365: A way YOU can help solve the funding gap.

Posted at 17:06h in News

In our last article, we saw how our Mastermind McPherson County categories and priorities can be applied to our regular grants cycle. While we’d like to fund every request that could have a community impact, we are still limited by funding. During our fiscal year...

04 Apr Mastermind Categories: How do they fit with our other grants?

Posted at 15:52h in News

Last week we discussed how we categorized the priorities our communities presented through the Mastermind McPherson County survey last year. An interesting look at how we’ve continued the mastermind process into our daily work through the grants from both our Community ‘Dream’ Fund and the...

28 Mar Swedish Pavilion Closed to Public Pending Completion Of Critical Structural Stabilization Repairs

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From the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum: The Board of Directors of the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum voted on Thursday, March 14 to close the museum’s 1904 World’s Fair Swedish Pavilion to the public until structural stabilization repairs can be completed. A...

28 Mar Mastermind Categories and their Impact on Grantmaking

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[caption id="attachment_5315" align="alignright" width="375"] Mastermind Grant recipients being presented their grants at MCCF's Philanthropist of the Year event in Nov.[/caption] We’ve mentioned the surveys and that they can impact the grantmaking of the Foundation. Now that the surveys are open again, we thought it would be...

14 Mar County Matching Event Raises $610,000 for local organizations

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McPHERSON --- The McPherson County Community Foundation (MCCF) has announced the final totals of their Match Week event. Between Mar. 4-8 over $610,000, with match included, was raised to help build the endowments of over 50 county nonprofits. This total breaks the record of $590,000...