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SACF Awards $9,000 in 2023 Community Impact Grants
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Straits Area Community Foundation Awards Over $32,000 in 2022 Scholarships
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Straits Area Community Foundation Awards Over $8,900 in New Grants
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Community Foundation Helps Raise over $365,000 for Local Nonprofits on Giving Tuesday
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Straits Area Community Foundation Awards Over $9,000 in New Grants
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Read their stories below:
August and Peggy Matuzak: A Living Legacy for Public Art
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Raymond Plaunt Maritime Memorial Scholarship: Honoring the Past and Looking to the Future
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Carl and Helen Basel MSU Scholarship: A Legacy 100 Years in the Making
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Whittemore-Prescott Education Foundation: Three Alumni Band Together to Help the Next in Line
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Bob and Nancy Griffin: A Story of Hometown Roots and Generosity
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Beach and Kellie Hall: True Hearts for “Home”
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Love of Our Nation Sparks Creative Ways to Give Back
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Donor Profile: Annele Johnson Richards
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Donor Profile: The Lappan Family
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Donor Profile: Michael Mandrick
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Beach and Kellie Hall - When Giving Back Comes from the Heart
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John R. Zachel: Honoring Foster Parents Leaves a Legacy All Its Own
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Bob Carpenter Takes Civic-Mindedness to Heart
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Giving Back A Way of Life for Tom & Nancy Huck
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Scholarship Fund Honors Foster Parents
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Joy of Giving Back: Nancy & Nate Stempky
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A Life of Love, a Legacy of Community: The Margot Dorn Dutcher Fund
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A Unique Plan for Giving - The Cash and Jennie Gapczynski Nature Park Fund
READ HERE