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CFES Ranked In Top 100 For Most Gifts Per Capita
July 6, 2010
A report released in June by the Council on Foundations
ranked the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) in the top
100 in the nation for receiving the most gifts per capita for fiscal
year 2009.
The June 2010 national report titled, "Benchmarking Beyond
Asset Size," ranked the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore 23rd
for per capita gifts among the 700-plus community foundations in the
United States.
Gifts per capita were calculated by dividing the foundation’s
total gifts by the population of each foundation’s service area, which
is 150,000 for CFES. The report showed that the per capita gift to the
Foundation in FY 2009 was $42.36 per person or a total of $6.3 million
over the course of a year.
"This is an outstanding reflection on the people of the Lower
Shore for their generosity and support of charitable giving," said
James Almand, CFES board chair. "We are very fortunate to serve an area
with so many caring and generous individuals.”
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore is the largest
non-governmental source of support for nonprofit organizations in the
Maryland lower shore counties of Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester. Gifts
to the Community Foundation, a public charity, create permanent
endowment funds that steadily grow in value over time and produce income
for grants to local charitable nonprofit organizations.
