News and Events
December 14, 2009 - Annual Meeting and Celebration at The Majestic Theater, 4:30PM to 6:30 PM. Please join us as we honor Adams County Fellows and organize for the coming year.
Grant application now available - Click here for more info.
Emergency Fund Campaign to raise funding for Adams County charities impacted by the PA State budget impasse. Please help keep vital services to children and families open. Mail your tax deductible contribution to ACCF, P. O. Box 4565, Gettysburg, PA 17325. This fund will pay charities to keep programs running and become a permanent endowed fund after the emergency is over.
BEN FRANKLIN FUND
The great patriot and Revolutionary War statesman, Ben Franklin, left a testamentary trust which was to accumulate principal and interest for a period of 200 years, and them be distributed to two designated beneficiaries, namely, the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. To give to this fund or to find out more about the many different funds available, click here.
The Adams County Community Foundation Overview
The purpose of this foundation is to “inspire people and communities to build and distribute charitable funds for Good, for Adams County, for Ever.” After one year of operation, the foundation has acquired nine funds established by individual people or families, members of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, groups of business people, a local charity and by a visionary patriot from the 1700’s. The Foundation’s assets are managed by a professional investment company hired by the Board of Directors and overseen by the Foundation’s Investment & Finance Committee. From these funds distribution of grants is made to qualified, local charities who demonstrate that they are meeting community needs. With a 16 member Board of Directors, Adams County Community Foundation serves as a good steward of the monies of our donors and demonstrates accountability, transparency, confidentiality, compassion, inclusiveness and excellence in its work.
Historically, and across the United States, community foundations offer their citizens an opportunity to become philanthropists, investing in causes they care about with certain assurances. They are assured that the fund will be permanent and will forever meet the needs that are relevant to the donor’s interests and the communities’ needs. They are assured that the Foundation will be good stewards of the funds, selecting and maintaining good fund managers at reasonable cost with performance bench marks in place. Because it is the Foundation’s responsibility to know the community, donors are also assured that only qualified charities will receive grants and that the grants they receive will be used for the good purposes for which they were intended. Finally, donors are assured that their name or the name of a loved one will live on through their fund.
Adams County Community Foundation is the successor to Adams County Foundation, an organization founded in 1985 when a group of members led by Jack Phillips inspired their Rotary Club of Gettysburg to action. Adams County Foundation operated for 22 years. During that time the Foundation acquired six Funds totaling $500,000 and distributed $120,000 to Adams County charities.