COLUMBUS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ACCEPTS DONATIONS TOWARD RIEGELWOOD RELIEF

The Columbus County Community Foundation will immediately begin accepting donations toward the Riegelwood relief effort, Foundation officials reported Friday.

Interested parties may send tax-deductible gifts to the local foundation as follows:

Columbus County Community Foundation, Inc.
Attn: Riegelwood Relief
P.O. Box 294
Whiteville, North Carolina 28472

Gifts will be held in the foundation’s general fund pending distribution to relief agencies dealing with the disaster, noted Beth Jenkins, regional associate for the Foundation.


The Columbus County Community Foundation is an affiliate of the North Carolina Community Foundation (NCCF). The Community Fund was established in 1999 to help support local charitable needs through annual grants.

For information on the Columbus County Community Foundation and its Community Fund, contact Southeast Regional Associate Beth Boney Jenkins at 910-815-2677 or 877-815-2617 (toll free).
The North Carolina Community Foundation (NCCF) is a statewide community development organization created to build capacity through philanthropy. The NCCF administers more than $100 million in assets that sustain nearly 1,000 endowment funds established to provide long-term support of a broad range of charitable needs, nonprofit organizations and scholarships in more than 60 counties across the state, with an emphasis on underserved areas. The NCCF operates through a unique network of six regions designed to provide local resource allocation and community assistance. For more information, visit


November 17, 2006