The Frances Langford Fund for Martin County will award grants totaling $303,620 to seven local nonprofits to fund programs in 2018 and 2019, according to the Martin County Community Foundation.

The largest grant of $100,000 will go to Martin County HUGS, a new joint project of Alzheimer’s Community Care and Council on Aging of Martin County that will seek to make Martin County a dementia friendly community through a broad based public awareness and education campaign that will involve varied sectors, from law enforcement to retail.

 

Michael Verde, nationally renowned speaker on literature and philosophy presented a program on Transcendental Leadership for prominent local philanthropists and their guests in February as part of the Martin County Community Foundation Speaker Series.

Michael Verde spoke to an intimate group of philanthropists, fundholders, board members, and special invited guests about Transcendent Leadership.

“Today was a perfect example of what we say about Martin County Community Foundation in our literature – it provides philanthropically motivated people to have very special learning experiences in an intimate setting.” – Brian Foss, MCCF Board Members and Fundholder.

 

 

 

Martin County Community Foundation is pleased to help carry on Ms. Langford’s philanthropic tradition of gifting to and enriching the Martin County.

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The Martin County Community Foundation announced the 2017 Agents of Change, five Stuart-based nonprofits that are recipients of more than $311,000 from the Frances Langford Fund for Martin County.