How does Grays Harbor County benefit from having a local community foundation?
• We help raise the level of local giving, and we help keep charitable dollars in the local community. It is our aim to build a local source of charitable capital that will become a steady, long-term resource for our communities. • We help to ensure that charitable endowment gifts given to help our community will remain effective and relevant over long periods of time. Even as local needs and giving opportunities change, a community foundation is able to adapt charitable funds to find relevance in a changing community. To give a colorful example, we help make sure that, as happened 100 years ago in New York City, a fund set up to buy snuff for poor elderly women in Central Park won’t go unchanged and unused if — as we hope is true by now — poor elderly women in Central Park no longer use snuff.
