The Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (and its regional affiliates) held a Holiday grantee announcement event, at the Smoot Theater in Parkersburg. This is a classy event, well attended by donors, board members and other civic leaders in Parkersburg. The PACF has a program where they focus some brief presentations on a topic of importance to the community, and this year's was on Health. Several grantees described what the grants from the PACF contributed to their programs. CHS received a grant this cycle to furnish our foster care visitation area. Shelley, Ashley and I attended. (Ashley had written the grant, to gain some grant writing experience- congratulations to her for a fine writing job!!!!) We were told as the week went on that we were captured on TV by the local news reporter who was covering the story! I am always amazed at how many people comment when we are on the news in our town!!!
Yesterday, I attended the Sisters of Saint Joseph Charitable Funds annual recognition banquet at the Parkersburg Country Club. We were recognized for a previous grant we had received which we used to promote oral health among pregnant women (in our Right from the Start program) and to help young parents understand the importance of getting their children off to a good start with oral health. This foundation which is a little over 10 years old in our area, has supported many of our innovations and start up programs in this time, totally over $100,000 in support. We owe them much thanks and acknowledgment for our expansion and full array of services we provide to the community- they have supported the shelter's capital campaign, the start of the family resource center and neighborhood work, the Right from the Start program, and the overall infrastructure of our site's busy hive of activity!!!!
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