Local dollars stay local
Wilkes Community Foundation grantees hold up their award checks at a recent celebration. Each of the NCCF’s affiliate foundation partners has established a community fund that supports local issues and causes, a model that our constituents strongly endorse because local dollars stay local. (Back row, left to right: Charles White, Yadkin River Greenway; Mary Edna Faw, BROC; Susan Sturgill, Pregnancy Care Center; Robin Whittington, ADAP; Terrie Stackhouse, WCF board member. Front row, left to right: Brenda Page, WCF board president; Deborah Elledge, Volunteers for Wilkes Literacy; Judith Holleman-Anderson, Samaritan’s Christian Ministries; and Dennis Huggins, Wilkes County Schools.)
