The Crawford Heritage Community Foundation has grown to more than $10 million in assets under management. They now manage 102 permanently endowed funds from which they have distributed $2.9 million in grants since 1998. Those funds benefit more than 100 different organizations, scholarships and charitable purposes. The foundation has logged…...
Foundation Opens New Office
The Crawford Heritage Community Foundation has relocated to 911 Diamond Park in Meadville. Bush Investment Group owns the building and is its primary occupant. Other tenants include Attorney E. Max Weiss and CPA Eric Smith. The new office—steps from the courthouse—provides a higher-profile. It is easy for visitors to access…...
Foundation Awards $19,000 in Grants
The Crawford Heritage Community Foundation gives back to the community through discretionary grants. They prioritize giving to improve upon the effectiveness of existing programs and support projects that incorporate preventive or curative approaches to the problems and challenges of our community. The foundation has recently awarded grants totaling $19,420 to…...
Foundation Awards Scholarships
The Crawford Heritage Community Foundation presents two scholarships each year to students from Crawford County enrolled in an accredited graduate program leading to a degree of doctor of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy or podiatry. The Meadville Medical Center Medical Staff Memorial Scholarship honors the deceased members of the hospital’s medical staff.…...
Foundation Awards Medical Scholarships
The Crawford Heritage Community Foundation presents two scholarships each year to students from Crawford County enrolled in an accredited graduate program leading to a degree of doctor of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy or podiatry. The Meadville Medical Center Medical Staff Memorial Scholarship honors the deceased members of the hospital’s medical staff.…...
Community Matters to Foundations
The Crawford Heritage Foundation has changed its name to the Crawford Heritage Community Foundation. Established in 1998, the organization serves all of Crawford County. “We have always been a community foundation. Our new name makes that clear. Awareness of this important segment of the philanthropic community has grown significantly in…...
Fund Helps Promote Manufacturing Careers
The Northwestern Pennsylvania National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) Education Foundation is dedicated to advancing the tool, die and manufacturing industry in the region. They have established an organizational endowment with the Crawford Heritage Foundation to support their work to promote the availability and viability of manufacturing careers and provide…...
Foundation Awards $11,000 in Grants
The Crawford Heritage Foundation gives back to the community through discretionary grants. They prioritize giving to improve upon the effectiveness of existing programs and support projects that incorporate preventive or curative approaches to the problems and challenges of our community. The foundation has recently awarded grants totaling $11,178 to fourteen…...
Endowment Helps the Show Go On
The Academy Theatre has helped to entertain Meadville for more than one-hundred years. An organizational endowment established with the Crawford Heritage Foundation to benefit the theatre will help to ensure that they will always be able to present quality performances to the community. “This endowment will help the theatre present…...
Celebrate Charitable Giving During Community Foundation Week
The Crawford Heritage Foundation will join more than 700 community foundations across the United States in celebrating charitable giving during Community Foundation Week, November 12-18, 2009. In 2007, community foundations gave an estimated $4.1 billion to a variety of nonprofit activities in fields that included the arts, education, environment, disaster…...