Edna Crews
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Helping a cause by making connections
I love my job. I wake up each morning and realize that I get to do good everyday. This past week I had one of those bonus days.
I had a call from Anne Guthrie, the founder of the Little Red Dog Foundation. We just recently did a site visit with them at Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Healthlink program. Through the therapy program at the hospital, Little Red Dog Foundation provides AmTryke therapeutic tricycles to children who have limited mobility. The foundation has been making an effort to provide the therapeutic tricycles to area schools so the school therapist can also use them during their work with the students and the students can have mobility on the playground with their peers.
Several months ago, Anne and I talked about the needs of Little Red Dog Foundation. They …
Making choices, we can all support causes in need this season
My mailboxes, postal and electronic, are full of requests for donations.
All are from legitimate organizations that add value in my local community, statewide, or nationally. But how do we decide who gets something and who will not make the cut at this time?
These are decisions based on real emotional issues for me. A very dear and close relative had breast cancer, so do I support breast cancer research so we truly can find the cure? My mother suffered from Alzheimer's for 10 years. There are wonderful support organizations for families and caregivers right here in my lowcountry community that can help others deal with what I did for those years. Will I put their request in the pot? I was an educator for over 30 years. Helping children is a high …
Get to know your local Community Foundation and what we do
A few weeks ago I had lunch with a friend who works with a local nonprofit organization in Beaufort. I listened as she described the needs of her organization and the current financial state, and wished I had the ability to write a check then and there to cover the gap between their current balance and anticipated expenses.
I work for Coastal Community Foundation and often folks think I can do just that! So let me give you a quick "community foundation 101."
In a legal sense, a community foundation is a tax-exempt, nonprofit, autonomous, publicly supported, philanthropic institution composed primarily of permanent funds established by many …
