CFGC celebrates local philanthropy
Recipients of the CFGC 2017 Legacy Award, from left: Courtney Schroyer for First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Greene County; Nelson and Bernice Fox; Sheila Stewart for First National Bank of Pennsylvania; Beth Weaver of A.C.T.S of Greene County; Morris Harper, M.D.; Thelma Szarell; Doug and Lucy Corwin; and Cindy Bailey.
CFGC Board Chairman Dr. Morris Harper presents Judi Goodwin Tanner, chief executive officer of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Greene County, with the William R. Davis Award of the Bridge Society, recognizing cumulative gifts of more than $250,000 to support CFGC grant programs.
CFGC Board Chairman Dr. Morris Harper, left, presents the CFGC Bridge Society Award for 2017 to attorney Tim Logan of Waynesburg for his work as a professional adviser in helping clients achieve their charitable goals through gifts to the foundation.
The Community Foundation of Greene County recently celebrated local philanthropy with a dinner at Valley View Farm Venue near Waynesburg.
During the dinner, CFGC Board of Directors Chairman Dr. Morris Harper noted that the foundation has distributed nearly $3 million in grants and scholarships to benefit the Greene County community since 2001. According to Harper, those grants and scholarships were made possible only because of the philanthropy by many of those attending, who had established endowed funds or made gifts to various funds at the foundation.
Harper and CFGC Board Vice Chairwoman Kim Grimes recognized the philanthropy of many individuals, families and businesses through the Legacy Award, celebrating those who have made cumulative gifts of more than $1,000 annually during the past two years. Those awardees attending the dinner who received a certificate plaque recognizing their support were:
- A.C.T.S. of Greene County for support of the Greene County Weekend Food fund
- Cindy Bailey for establishing the Cindy’s Wind Fund for Women and Girls, an endowed Field of Interest fund
- Community Bank for their support and assistance through sponsorships and in-kind donations
- Lucy and Doug Corwin for their ongoing support through unrestricted gifts
- Bob Finnegan for support of the Jesse Benson Finnegan Scholarship fund
- First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Greene County for their support of the Weekend Food, Community Builders and EITC Pre-K Scholarship programs
- First National Bank of Pennsylvania for their support of the EITC Educational Improvement fund, providing grants to public schools for innovative curriculum activities
- Nelson and Bernice Fox for their dedication in working to establish a new fund
- Dr. Morris Harper for his ongoing support of CFGC in building a new grant fund and providing unrestricted support
- Lisa and David Jordan for their ongoing support through unrestricted gifts
- Jeff and Dr. Helen McCracken for their ongoing support for operations
- Thelma Szarell for establishing a new endowed scholarship fund to benefit a student graduating from West Greene High School
- Greene County Memorial Hospital Foundation for its grant for the Weekend Food program
- Observer Reporter/Observer Publishing Company for their support and assistance furthering media outreach through advertising and sponsorship opportunities
- Waynesburg University Bonner Scholars for supporting the Greene County Weekend Food fund through the Empty Bowls event.
CFGC Executive Director Bettie Stammerjohn announced the recipients of the Foundation’s Bridge Society Award, which was established in 2008 to recognize professional advisers such as attorneys, financial planners, accountants, bankers and insurance agents who have helped clients achieve their charitable goals through gifts to the community foundation. Annual membership in the Bridge Society is granted to professional advisers who have referred or assisted in educating clients, which resulted in a gift of any size to the Community Foundation in any given year and recognized with an engraved plaque.
Receiving the 2017 Bridge Society Award were Joseph Brodak of Brodak Law; Andrew Corfont of Community Bank; Daniel Gustine of Peacock Keller & Ecker; Timothy Logan of Logan Law Office; Thomas G. Milinovich of Milinovich & Company; Courtney Schroyer of First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Greene County; Sheila Stewart of First National Bank of Pennsylvania; and Judi Goodwin Tanner of First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Greene County.
Tanner, chief executive officer, received recognition as a recipient of the William R. Davis Award, which recognizes a professional adviser who refers clients resulting in cumulative gifts of at least $250,000. The award is named for attorney William R. Davis who provided legal expertise and advice during the founding years of the foundation. Until his death in 2007, Davis led the way in helping to educate and inform colleagues and clients about the Community Foundation and its mission to help make Greene County a better community.
“This evening is always a delight,” said Stammerjohn. “But these individuals deserve so much more than one night of recognition. Year-round they, though their gifts, make a difference the community, day after day.”
The Community Foundation of Greene County, a private, non-profit 501©(3) organization founded in 2000, is the central philanthropic vehicle in Greene County for donations of various types and sizes. CFGC currently manages nearly $5 million in assets through more than 75 different endowed and restricted funds.