During the week of November 10-16, 2019, Otsego Community Foundation will join more than 795 community foundations across America celebrating Community Foundation Week. For 30 years, the effort has raised awareness about the increasingly important role of these...
Dana Bensinger
Berkley Kay Payton Fund
Tens of thousands of families across the United States are devastated each year by untimely infant deaths. In 1988, US President Ronald Reagan declared October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month to recognize the unique grief of bereaved parents in an effort...
Charitable Funds 101
On June 20, the OCF hosted Charitable Funds 101, an informative event for board members and professional advisers featuring a panel of current fund holders representing the different types of charitable funds managed by the OCF. Fund types include unrestricted, field...
Connecting Students to High Demand Occupations
The Don Skop Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to provide college scholarships to students pursuing careers in vocations. Over the past few years it has become challenging to award the scholarship due to a lack of students interested in this type of work,...
Tom Gill Memorial Fund…Improving the Lives of Children
"If you treat an individual as he is; he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." Goethe "This was my father’s favorite quote and what he believed", said Cindy Pushman. ...
Turning Retirement Accounts into Charitable Good
There is good news for community foundation donors in their 70s—and for the communities and causes they care about. A permanent law makes it possible to give individual retirement account (IRA) assets to charity, free from federal tax, annually. Prior to 2006,...
Mother’s Day Spotlight
In honor of Mother’s Day, we are highlighting two OCF funds: the Kathryn Tripp Scholarship Fund and the Elaine Nowicki Awesome Fund. Both funds were created by loving family members in memory of their moms. ELAINE NOWICKI AWESOME FUND When Elaine Nowicki saw an act of...