WILMINGTON — The Clinton County Foundation will host a free grant account/grant application training for local citizens, nonprofits and charitable organizations at the Wilmington Public Library community room on Wednesday, Feb. 26 will focus on scintillating grant writing and project budget narratives. Two sessions with the same information are from 3-4:30 p.m. and 6-7:30 p.m. […]
WILMINGTON — The Clinton County Foundation will host a free grant account/grant application training for local citizens, nonprofits and charitable organizations at the Wilmington Public Library community room on Thursday, Feb. 12. A second free grant training day on Feb. 26 will focus on scintillating grant writing and project budget narratives. Both programs are from […]
By Gary Huffenberger – [email protected] WILMINGTON — A spending plan for Legacy Fund grants is taking shape, even as delving into the matter reflects how ticklish the job of awarding grant money can be. In Wednesday discussions, Clinton County commissioners brought up a variety of factors that a committee deciding among grant applications may want […]
By Gary Huffenberger – [email protected] WILMINGTON — Though no formal action has been taken, Clinton County commissioners are looking at a spending plan for Legacy Fund grants that has as a guidepost, in the first year anyway, 60 percent of allocated dollars going to local governments. It’s expected that a recently formed Clinton County Legacy […]
By Gary Huffenberger – [email protected] WILMINGTON — There’s real potential for the dollar amount in the Clinton County Legacy Fund to be substantially increased — which would generate greater revenue to go toward grants that benefit the local community. Earlier this year Clinton County commissioners established the Legacy Fund with a start-up amount of $10 […]
By Gary Huffenberger – [email protected] WILMINGTON — Clinton County commissioners put the finishing touches Wednesday to bylaws for the Clinton County Legacy Fund — a fund that will generate ongoing income for grants to benefit the community and residents. Discussed Wednesday is the way the members of the five-person Grant Selection Committee will be recruited. […]
By Gary Huffenberger – [email protected] WILMINGTON — The spending policy of the Clinton County Legacy Fund probably will be adjusted in order to cushion its grant dollars from downswings in the financial markets. Commissioners voted in January to establish the legacy fund, which will have a start-up amount of $10 million to invest and generate […]
By Gary Huffenberger – [email protected] WILMINGTON — Commissioners voted Wednesday to establish the Clinton County Legacy Fund, which will have a start-up amount of $10 million to invest and generate ongoing income for grants that benefit the community and its residents. The $10 million is part of the proceeds the county received from selling county-owned […]
By Gary Huffenberger – [email protected] WILMINGTON — The starting amount for a planned Clinton County endowment fund apparently will include some money the county received from the sale of CMH properties, in addition to $2.9 million that the former county-owned hospital generated doing business. During the Clinton County commissioners meeting on Monday, Clinton County […]