McCook Community Foundation Fund - Foundation distributes grant funds

03/09/2010, McCook Daily Gazette

McCook Community Foundation Fund members present checks to the organizations that recently were awarded emergency relief grant funds from the Peter Kiewit Foundation. They include, front, from left Erma Hinz, McCook Pantry; Shanon Williams and Karen Jensen, United Methodist Church Thursday Night Supper Program; Mary Bargen, Share the Heat; and Harvey Hinz, McCook Pantry. Middle row: Doug Skiles, Don Harpst and Lindsey Foster with MCFF, Barb Ostrum, Commodity Supplemental Food Program; and Mark Graff of MCFF. Back row is Pat Marvin, Leigh Ann Miller, and Kay Flaska of MCFF; Bob Hardy, McCook Pantry; and Jana Jensen, with the Nebraska Community Foundation. (Courtesy Photo)

The McCook Community Foundation Fund, an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation, was the recipient of an Emergency Relief grant from the Peter Kiewit Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to help organizations meet essential human needs. This is the second year that the MCFF has been chosen to receive the funds.

Article reprinted with permission of the McCook Daily Gazette. 

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