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Grandfather and granddaugher walking in an orchard

Beaver Creek Waterfall
West Virginia Profiles in Giving highlights ordinary people who've made extraordinary contributions to their community through simple acts of giving and planning. These examples are meant to inspire, instruct and help you institutionalize your charitable inclinations. Your contributions to community foundations have a tremendous impact on your neighbors, your friends, and those in your community who need a helping hand.

A Community Pearl
The town of Cairo in Ritchie County struggled with a feeling of identity theft as its small high school was closed and students redistributed. The community's collective vision created a means to preserve Cairo High School's name, and pride, forever....

Celebrating Lifetimes
After a lifetime of marriage, teaching, and charitable works, Mr. George Hancock established a scholarship endowment fund for college-bound students in his local community foundation....

A Tribute to a Wife
Accounts of the heroes and victims of September 11 focus on their good qualities, excluding their inevitable frailties and imperfections, and have appeared in such a way as to suggest that we had been walking among angels....


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