Fund Spotlight: Jim Mongeau Alpenfest Fund
Every July since 1965, the community comes together to celebrate Alpenfest in downtown Gaylord. Music, crafts, games, rides and the Queens Pageant are enjoyed by one and all. Jim Mongeau was a founding member of the volunteers who made the annual event a highlight for...
Announcing the 2019 Otsego Community Foundation Scholarship Recipients
The Otsego Community Foundation would like to recognize the following local students who received this year’s scholarships. The OCF’s scholarship program connects funds from forward-thinking donors to deserving local students pursuing further education....
Community Funding Partners Award Over $106,000 in Grants
The 2019 Giving Together celebration was held on Thursday, May 30th. This event brought together the donors and grantees from this year’s Community Grant Program at the Otsego County Library to commemorate the good work and generosity of this community. The...
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...
Women Make a HUGE Difference in Otsego County
What kind of impact can over 100 women have on their community when they gather together for one hour? They can raise $15,000 for local efforts! On Tuesday, May 14, a dynamic group of women came together at the Otsego Resort and listened as four members were randomly...
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...