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Press Releases
Record $4.1 Million in Grantmaking
August 10, 2010
The Board of Directors recently celebrated achieving a record $4.1 million in grants to the community for fiscal 2010.
The Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of the Eastern
Shore (CFES) recently celebrated achieving a record $4.1 million in grants to
the community for fiscal 2010. During
the past 12 months the Foundation distributed 951 grants to nonprofit and
faith-based organizations to help improve the quality of life for citizens in
our region. Pictured (l to r) are CFES
board members: Ernie Satchell, Jackie Cassidy, Melody Nelson, Lauren Taylor,
Jane Corcoran, John Barrett, Ray Thompson, Jim Almand, Lou Taylor, Karen
Lischick, Charles Goslee, Kathleen McLain, Brian Shockley, Jim Thomas, John
Stern, Jay Bergey, Jeff Turner, Don Taylor, and David Vorhis.
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore is the largest
non-governmental source of support for nonprofit and faith based organizations
in the Maryland lower shore counties of Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester, having
made over $36 million in grants to the community since 1984. 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. In fiscal 2010 the Foundation made a total
of 951 grants to the community representing $4.1 million. For more information
about the Community Foundation visit the Foundation’s web site at www.cfes.org,or phone 410-742-9911.
