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Shickley
In April 2010, the Shickley Community Foundation Fund announced its semi-annual grant awards. The Fund provided nearly $7,000 to 10 area nonprofits. What makes this last round of grantmaking special in this town of about 350 people is that the Fund has now surpassed the $100,000 mark in community reinvestment, the majority of that occurring in the last 10 years. Most of those grants have been made from earnings on the Fund’s endowment account.
“Tis better to give than receive” is a value that was instilled in Verlene and Gerald “Gundy” Gunderson while they were growing up in Beemer, Nebraska and Norway, Iowa.
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