The Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation (EWVCF) and its affiliates work with donors who have established more than four dozen scholarship funds. Awards range from $500 to $5,000. In 2020, the Foundation awarded over $120,000 in scholarships to high-achieving students in the Eastern Panhandle. (Review a list of our 2020 Scholarship awardees here: 2020 SCHOLARSHIP […]
Final Round of COVID-19 Grants to Focus on Front-Line Nonprofits
In response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Board of Directors of the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation established the EWVCF COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund to assist nonprofit organizations in the five-county region served by the Community Foundation (Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire, and Hardy). Since its inception in March of 2020, the fund has awarded […]
Silver Anniversary Report to the Community
The Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation has been serving donors and nonprofit organizations in our region for the past 25 years. We are grateful for the incredible support that we’ve received and we are proud of our accomplishments. During the past quarter-century, we have grown from a single $100,000 scholarship fund to 250 endowments holding […]
78 Eastern Panhandle Students Receive 94 Community Foundation Scholarships
The Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation (EWVCF) has proudly served the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia for 25 years, and during that time we have awarded a total of $10.5 million in grants and scholarships. The Community Foundation works with thousands of donors who donate millions of dollars to build 244 endowed funds with over […]
Shepherdstown resident leaves $3.45 million to local nonprofits
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Henry Willard was a well-known community member, a husband, and father and a much-loved benefactor to many causes in the community. And with his passing two days before Christmas in 2018, that philanthropy would continue. Thirteen area nonprofit organizations in Berkeley and Jefferson counties received $3.45 million as a result of Willard’s generosity. […]
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