Douglas County Community Foundation
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 1073
Ava, MO 65608
www.douglascountyfoundation.org
Established July 3, 2003
Board of Governors:
Nancy Hawk, President • Janice Lorrain, Vice President • Betty Ridenour, Treasurer • Dianne Shay, Secretary • Craig Carter • Angela Collins • Jennifer Horn • Danny Letsinger • Mike Redfearn
For additional information contact Nancy Hawk, President, at (417) 683-9104.
Total Assets (as of 3/31/12): $521,472 in 18 funds
News and Updates
Legacy Focus, Technology Raise Awareness
Members of the Douglas County Community Foundation board present $5,000 community grants to Meals on Wheels and the Ava Senior Center. In all, the DCCF has distributed more than $160,000 since its inception just eight-plus years ago.
The Douglas County Community Foundation is planning for the future, and a new website is only part of the plan.
Over the past year, the DCCF not only launched a new website, www.douglascountyfoundation.org, but also brought in special speakers to educate the community about the importance of planned giving. Mr. Leon Combs, of Bradleyville, a regional leader in establishing endowments for long-term work in communities, spoke at the June luncheon of the Ava Chamber of Commerce. The luncheon was sponsored by the DCCF, and President Nancy Hawk says the board expects the sponsorship to become an annual tradition.
“(Leon) spoke about all different kinds of giving, but we asked him to specify the Legacy Giving,” Hawk said. “He also shared some of the history, that we’ve been doing this since 2003. We had a pretty good turnout.”
The Douglas County Community Foundation also launched its website to promote online grant applications, feature photos of the foundation and its grants at work in the community, and provide information on its Board of Governors.
Finally, the Douglas County Community Foundation’s community grantmaking activities are among the most robust in the CFO network, particularly for a county with a population of just more than 13,000 people.
To read more about the Douglas County Community Foundation, click here.
Funds and Grantmaking
Existing Funds:
Ava Alumni Scholarship Fund
Ava Alumni Yeoman Scholarship Fund
Ava Animal Shelter Building Fund
Ava Public Schools Foundation Endowment Fund
Ava Public Schools Foundation Fund
Douglas County Community Foundation Administrative Endowment Fund
Douglas County Community Foundation Capacity Building Fund
Douglas County Community Foundation Endowment Fund
Douglas County Cultural Arts Fund
Douglas County MFP Hunger Challenge Fund
Douglas County Sesquicentennial Fund
Douglas County Youth Philanthropy Fund
Herman E. Davis Memorial Endowment Fund
Mandy Hampton Memorial Scholarship
Mobile Food Pantry Hunger Challenge Fund
Skyline R-II Youth Empowerment Fund
Tracy Murphy Memorial Scholarship Fund
Community Grants for Fiscal Year 2011
City of Ava, $5,000
Heart of the Hills Food Harvest, $5,000
Ava Senior Center, $10,000
Douglas County Health Department, Smoking cessation supplies, $1,000
44th Judicial Circuit Drug Court, $2,000
Ava High School, Food for the Friday Feast, $1,000
Ava High School, project graduation, $1,000
Ava Senior Center, operations, $5,000
Douglas County Council on Aging,
Meals on Wheels program, $5,000
City of Ava, animal welfare, $5,000
Heart of the Hills Food Harvest, $5,000
CHART Project, $1,000