The Monmouth Community Fund is over halfway to reaching their $70,000 goal to then unlock another $70,000 grant match made possible through the collaboration of the Galesburg Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Warren County, and the Twomey Foundation. Once the fund is established, Trevor Davies, Chairman of the Monmouth Community Fund Advisory Board, says the goal is creating a legacy within the local communities:
“Once the fund is established, it will begin making grants to the community’s nonprofits, schools, churches, municipal agencies, and more with resources available each year as the endowed fund grows through additional gifts. That is the one thing, once we reach that $70,000 goal, we don’t want to stop, we want to keep going. This is a perpetual gift that this is something like a legacy that we want to create and continue on for years to come. Those gifts investment earnings and compound interest, those are the ways that fund continues to grow and allows us to give more grants. The more that people donate and the larger the fund gets, the more grants we are able to give.”
Donations to the Monmouth Community Fund can be given directly to one of the Advisory Board members, Cardie Carnes, Lisa Gavin, Anne Libby, Joel Newman, Ben Olson, Lucy Thompson, and Trevor Davies.
