The Adams County Community Foundation has named Edward G. Puhl, Janet Morgan Riggs and Danny E. Sebright to its board of directors. The board provides broad oversight for the Community Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the quality of life in Adams County and promoting philanthropy in the region.
Community Foundation Chair John S. Phillips said, “These three individuals bring a wonderful diversity of perspectives to our board. I am grateful for their generosity in agreeing to serve, as we chart a course for the Community Foundation and for all of Adams County.”
Edward G. Puhl
Ed Puhl understands Adams County from multiple perspectives, as an attorney with a 30-year practice concentrating in trusts and estates, and as past editor, advertising director and assistant publisher of the Gettysburg Times. He has watched the Community Foundation grow since its inception in 2007 and provided occasional legal advice to the fledgling organization. Over the years, he has referred multiple clients to the Community Foundation for support in their philanthropy and is a member of the Community Foundation’s Professional Advisor Recognition Society for his efforts. Now, Ed says, “It’s my time to give back. I think the Community Foundation can be an instrument of social change as well as philanthropy. I’m looking forward to helping to move the organization in a direction that solves problems, such as affordable housing, the lack of broadband connectivity, and so much more.”
Janet Morgan Riggs
Janet Morgan Riggs is the recently retired president of one of Adams County’s anchor institutions, Gettysburg College. Janet graduated from Gettysburg College, completed her PhD in social psychology at Princeton University, and then returned to Gettysburg College where she devoted her entire career, both on the faculty and as provost and eventually president. Her decades at Gettysburg College furnished her with a wide-ranging view of a changing community. “As I started to become more aware of the Community Foundation,” she noted, “I was interested in the fact that its reach is so broad. It facilitates support of so many organizations that really make the world go around here in Adams County.” As Janet entered retirement and considered how to engage in her community in new ways, she realized that the Community Foundation offered “a way to help support and encourage all of the organizations doing important work, and to help donors find their way to them.”
Danny E. Sebright
Danny Sebright spends most of his working hours in Washington D. C. or abroad but maintains deep roots in Adams County where he was born and raised. Hailing from a family dairy farm in East Berlin, his career in international affairs has spanned the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense and the Cohen Group, a private sector global strategic consulting firm. Since 2008 he also has served as president of the United States-United Arab Emirates Business Council, a nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of the commercial, business and trade ties between the two countries. Back in Adams County, Danny teaches a seminar on the Middle East at the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College and is an enthusiastic supporter of the area’s arts and social welfare organizations. Joining the board of the Community Foundation, he says, “makes sense because the health of our cultural and social sectors are interdependent and the Community Foundation is the one organization that takes that kind of holistic view in making charitable investments in Adams County.”
About the Adams County Community Foundation
The Adams County Community Foundation was created to promote and facilitate charitable giving and to build a permanent civic endowment for Adams County. In addition to charitable funds supporting grants focused on improving the quality of life in Adams County, the Community Foundation also provides a home for charitable funds created by donors which may make distributions anywhere in Pennsylvania or across the country.
