FOREVER

What if there was a way for your county or community to establish and build its own endowment?  The Golden Belt Community Foundation announces the FOREVER Campaign, designed to help build community-wide or county-wide endowments that can support a wide variety of projects.  With $300,000 in matching funds for endowment gifts available for communities in or the counties of Pawnee, Rush, and Stafford, we have a vision for impacting and supporting community needs.

The FOREVER Initiative is a culmination of strategic planning, the listening tour, and understanding the impact the intergenerational transfer of wealth has on the Golden Belt communities.

For some time, the GBCF board and staff has acknowledged a need for communities to develop their own endowments – so that they have a sustainable stream of funding for programs, parks and playgrounds, libraries, schools, beautification, historical preservation, and other things that improve the quality of life in our communities.

Currently there are endowment funds at the county level, and unfortunately, they are undersized to meet many of the needs. Endowment funds at the community or county level promise greater support from those connected to a particular county or community. There will be needs in the future that cannot be imagined today. FOREVER Funds can meet those unknown needs.

We recognize that these flexible, unrestricted funds are one of the hardest gifts to ask for and receive; and, at the same time, they are the most impactful.

Once endowments are established, grants from these funds may support a wide-variety of community needs on an annual basis. Grantmaking will be community-driven, with recommendations coming from each community to the Golden Belt Community Foundation Board of Directors.

A gift to the FOREVER Initiative is truly visionary and demonstrates a level of confidence and dedication for the future of your community or county. As you consider your role in this initiative, please reflect on what the FOREVER Initiative means to you – and to your community, as well as the future generations that may call your community or county home. Please join us in making our communities great places to live, work, and raise a family by giving to your community’s FOREVER Fund.

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