August 21, 2011
In a Tiny Neb. Town, a Community Fund Serves as a Model for Giving to Rural Charities
Bobbi and Steve Olson
“We now have the money to do some things that we weren’t able to do before,” says Richard Walter, vice president of the Shickley Community Foundation’s board.
The Shickley Community Foundation has a response rate to solicitations that few charities can match: 60 percent of the town’s residents have made a gift to the community fund.
Of course, Shickley, 80 miles southwest of Lincoln, only has 376 people, so it’s relatively easy for the fund’s board to schedule face-to-face requests.
The fund, which had $686,000 at the end of last year, expects eventually to net another $2-million in bequests and other planned
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