Dec. 2000, Manhattan, KS - A young Carrie Brock walked into Kedzie hall apprehensive at the conversation she needed to have. Brock, a native of Topeka, KS came to Kansas State University fully set on the idea of becoming a broadcast journalist, but after one semester...
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve briefly discussed the priorities that were found in our Mastermind McPherson County Survey. First through how we categorize the priorities and then with how our granting has addressed them. Now we can break down some of the interesting...
The McPherson County Community Foundation (MCCF) has announced their grant recipients for Apr. This cycle the Foundation released over $418,000 to organizations across the county. These distributions came from four different community funds, including the yearly grants over $10,000 from the David J. Nutt Fund...
In our last article, we saw how our Mastermind McPherson County categories and priorities can be applied to our regular grants cycle. While we’d like to fund every request that could have a community impact, we are still limited by funding. During our fiscal year...
Last week we discussed how we categorized the priorities our communities presented through the Mastermind McPherson County survey last year. An interesting look at how we’ve continued the mastermind process into our daily work through the grants from both our Community ‘Dream’ Fund and the...
From the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum: The Board of Directors of the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum voted on Thursday, March 14 to close the museum’s 1904 World’s Fair Swedish Pavilion to the public until structural stabilization repairs can be completed. A...
[caption id="attachment_5315" align="alignright" width="375"] Mastermind Grant recipients being presented their grants at MCCF's Philanthropist of the Year event in Nov.[/caption] We’ve mentioned the surveys and that they can impact the grantmaking of the Foundation. Now that the surveys are open again, we thought it would be...
McPHERSON --- The McPherson County Community Foundation (MCCF) has announced the final totals of their Match Week event. Between Mar. 4-8 over $610,000, with match included, was raised to help build the endowments of over 50 county nonprofits. This total breaks the record of $590,000...
Written by Teri L. Hansen (Marquette Tribune) with contributions from McPherson Center for Health On May 21, McPherson County voters will cast ballots in a special election to extend a half-cent sales tax that benefits the McPherson Center for Health, Lindsborg Community Hospital and Mercy Hospital....
McPHERSON --- The McPherson County Community Foundation (MCCF) Mastermind McPherson County is entering its second year of community benchmarking. Mastermind McPherson County is a three-year program set on creating a process to review and act on county needs. This will be a collaborative program with involvement...