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Tuesday, December 26, 2000
$50,000 Presented To
The Mills County Endowment Fund
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At a news conference on Thursday, December 21, advisory board members of the Mills County Endowment Fund accepted a check in the amount of $50,000 from the Southwest Iowa Foundation for the county's endowment fund. It was the second check of a 10 year New Millennium Challenge Grant Program for Mills County and is the direct result of this fall’s endowment that was created by Benjamin L. Wilson to annually benefit the Indian Creek Historical Society. Today’s grant, along with a $50,000 grant received in 1998, has been added to the Mills County Endowment Fund to be used for discretionary grant making in Mills County.
Members of the Mills County Endowment Fund are: Chair, Marland L. Gammon of
Glenwood; Vice Chair, Helen Pollock of rural Malvern; Secretary/Treasurer, Bach Bakehouse of rural Hastings; Quentin Johnson of Emerson and Jim Richter
of rural Glenwood. They accepted the check from Dennis N. Nissen, a representative of the Southwest Iowa Foundation.
(Pictured from left to right are Board Members Quentin Johnson, Jim Richter,
Bach Bakehouse, Secretary/Treasurer of the Mills County Endowment Fund. They accepted the check from Dennis N.
Nissen.)
Mills County is one of eight counties involved in the Endowment Funds of Southwest Iowa and the New Millennium Challenge Grant Program. The other counties are Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Montgomery, Page, and Shelby.
“On behalf of the Southwest Iowa Foundation, it is a privilege to present this additional $50,000 check for charitable works in Mills County,” said Nissen at the presentation. He added, “We are pleased to see that the counties residents are interested in establishing permanent, charitable funds in Mills County."
"We are pleased that the Southwest Iowa Foundation has helped Mills County with gifts that are destined, For good. For Ever." said Bakehouse.
The Mills County Advisory Board members encourage any resident who is interested in gifting to the endowment fund to contact them. For more information about the Mills County Endowment Fund program, contact local Mills County advisory board members or call Iowa Program Officer, Dennis N. Nissen at 1-800-794-3458.
The Southwest Iowa Foundation is headquartered in Council Bluffs, funding for the foundation comes from the revenue generated through the sale of the Bluffs Run Casino buildings to Harveys Casino Resorts, as well as past rental payments from Bluffs Run.
Pictured from left to right are Board Members Quentin Johnson, Jim Richter, Bach Bakehouse, Secretary/Treasurer of the Mills County Endowment Fund. They accepted the check from Dennis N. Nissen.
