Give Local Piedmont Letter To The Editor
On behalf of the Staff and Board of Directors at the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, we want to applaud our local communities for once again making our GIVE LOCAL PIEDMONT (GLP) program a tremendous success. It is you, the citizens and businesses in our Culpeper, Madison, Fauquier, and Rappahannock counties that step up and make the magic happen. The Give Local Piedmont program, facilitated by the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, aims to highlight the hard work of our nonprofit organizations, attract new donors, and encourage fun competition. It has succeeded!
Congratulations to the GLP team, - Liz Rose, Tanya Paull, Renard Carlos, Dede McClure, and Sarah Wick for all the new incentives, the late nights in planning and the fabulous camaraderie that occurs when we all put our heads together for a bigger, broader goal of helping each other. I heard from so many of the nonprofit organizations who were thrilled that our community stepped up to make this happen. We owe our sponsors a tremendous thank you for believing in the program and supporting it. Thank you to the Nancy and Michael Baudhuin Fund and the Marshall Doeller Family Foundation both at NPCF for their amazing support. Thank you to the PATH Foundation for the spectacular Bonus Pool and the Student Giving. Thank you also to Cedar Mountain Stone and Chemung Contracting – the Dalrymples, Atlantic Union Bank, the Red Oak Fund at NPCF, Raymond Boc Photography, Cheri Woodard Realty and Gulick Carson and Thorpe, PC.
The NPCF 2024 Give Local Piedmont raised a whopping $1,146,740 for our four communities supporting 217 organizations with 6,586 donations. For those with the most unique donations the Fauquier Free Clinic had 210 donors for a total of $40,743.; RappCats secured 199 donations ($35,263.); and the Mental Health Association of Fauquier County had 162 donors for $39,204.
Thanks to each of you for your enthusiasm and the positive impact, whether $10 or $10,000, you made on those who live, work, and play in the northern piedmont region!
Jane Bowling-Wilson
Executive Director, Northern Piedmont Community Foundation