Press Releases

 

 

The Wicomico Public Library Board of Directors recently established an endowment fund at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore.  This Fund will benefit library programs and services in perpetuity.

 

Tom Hehman, Director, Wicomico Public Library, stated that the “Wicomico Public Library is proud to partner with the Community Foundation.  We believe that by doing this, we are adding another layer of quality services that go beyond the minimum.”

 

“We look forward to working with the Wicomico Public Library to build an endowment that helps meet the community’s needs forever,” added Spicer Bell, President, Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore.

 

Additionally, the Community Foundation provides support to the library through the Susan Lee Todd Endowment that supports the purchase of books and audiovisual aids for the library’s children’s section, and the Anna G. Seidel Endowment for nonfiction books and books considered to be classics.  The Donald and Barbara Cummins Fund provides annual support for the Library.

 

Contributions to the new library fund can be made by the general public.  Anyone wishing to support the library with a gift can send their donation to the Community Foundation with specific instructions that it go to the Wicomico Public Library Fund.

 

Continuing a strong tradition of philanthropy on the Lower Shore, the Community Foundation is the steward for more than 500 such funds established by local individuals, businesses, civic organizations and local nonprofits that support charitable activities across a broad spectrum of interests.