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Private-Public Partnership

McCook

Private-Public Partnership

The McCook Community Foundation Fund has teamed up with McCook Community College to develop the Center for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) which provides training in welding and machine shop skills. CAST provides students the opportunity to develop technical job skills in the McCook facility and to remain in the area after graduation. Students learn safety; oxy-fuel, stick and gas metal arc welding; print reading; measurement and quality control.

Westleigh Miesner is a first-year welding student at McCook Community College.

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Thedford leaders work for the future

Thedford

Thedford leaders work for the future

With fewer than 700 people in the area it serves, the Thedford Community Foundation Fund has built an endowment of almost $200,000 in a few short years and made grants of nearly $40,000. It also has secured more than $150,000 in planned gifts.

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Preserving Community Assets

Trumbull

Several years after the high school in Trumbull closed in 1998, the Trumbull Community Foundation Fund took the lead in redeveloping the school building into a busy community center.

NCF affiliated funds are preserving our heritage and building for the future.

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Helping Our Hometowns

Atkinson

The Atkinson Police Department is equipped to deal with increased drug trafficking on Highway 20, thanks to help from the Atkinson Community Foundation Fund. Within a month the Fund received enough donations to purchase a police dog.

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