Local Impact Celebrated During National Community Foundation Week

The Garnett Community Foundation is joining a nationwide celebration, November 12 - 18, 2024, to recognize the increasingly important role that community foundations play in fostering collaboration among local partners to deliver innovative and lasting solutions that will help our communities to thrive. 

Since its creation in 2010, the Garnett Community Foundation has inspired charitable giving and helped facilitate local projects such as the renovation and opening of the Garnett Recreation Center, creation of a professional 18-hole disc golf course, recognition of 300+ local veterans on street pole banners, and most recently, the repaving of North Lake Park road. 

“Our rural town is filled with so many generous and caring people who want to see our community thrive,” says Julie Smith, Director of the Garnett Community Foundation. “Our mission is to provide donors with unique opportunities to connect with nonprofits and support the greatest needs in our community, today and for years to come.” 

Community Foundation Week was created in 1989 by former president George H.W. Bush to recognize the work of community foundations throughout America and their collaborative approach to working with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to address community needs.

Community foundations are grantmaking public charities that partner with donors to improve the lives of people in a certain area, such as Garnett and Anderson County. Individuals, families, and businesses can give nearly any type of gift - cash, stock, even real estate - to a community foundation to open a charitable fund and begin grant making. 

If you would like to make a positive, local impact, contact us today to learn how we can help connect your philanthropic passion to a community need.