September 30 - GFCF Hog Roast & Benefit Auction!
7/19/2010

The Greater Fostoria Community Foundation will be holding a Hog Roast & Benefit Auction on Thursday, September 30th at the Roppe Hangar of the Fostoria Airport. Doors will open at 5:30 with dinner being served at 6:30. The benefit auction will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be sold only in advance of the event and are $30.00 per person.

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GFCF Awards Nearly $16k To Kaubisch Library
6/9/2010

Due to a loss in state funding in recent years, the Kaubisch Memorial Public Library has had to institute budget cuts, which has prevented them from updating aging computers and circulation-related hardware. With a grant award of $15,988.68 from the Greater Fostoria Community Foundation Fund, the full amount requested, the library will be able to replace 14 outdated computers for public and staff use, to upgrade software and to replace obsolete peripheral hardware such as barcode readers and receipt printers that will be necessary to function with required future upgrades to the Sirsi library automation system.

GFCF Grants $2k To FMS to Expand Challenge Day
6/9/2010

The Fostoria Middle School received a $2,000 grant from the Greater Fostoria Community Foundation Fund to be used to expand their Challenge Day program this fall. The purpose for Challenge Day is to help students overcome social isolation, loneliness, and oppression. The concept behind Challenge Day is to help bring students together, address the problems that lead children to drugs, alcohol, gangs and violence. While Fostoria High School has been participating in Challenge Day since 2007, the National Challenge Day began in 1987 and has been featured on Oprah’s High School Challenge, Teen Files: Surviving High School; and The Bully Solution. The GFCF grant will help expand the program to the Fostoria Middle School with the addition of seventh grade students in September 2010.

Help GFCF Earn Kroger Community Reward Dollars!
4/14/2010

The Greater Fostoria Community Foundation is now set up to receive Kroger Community Rewards! If you shop at Kroger and use a Kroger Plus Card, you may now request to have the Greater Fostoria Community Foundation receive community rebate dollars based on your purchases. Registering your card won't increase your cost or affect your fuel points. If you don't yet have a Kroger Plus Card, you may sign up for a card at the customer service desk. Then simply register your card online at www.krogercommunityrewards.com and enroll in the Community Rewards Program under "Greater Fostoria Community Foundation" or with organization number "80016". (If you need assistance setting up your card online, you may contact the Foundation for a detailed instruction sheet.) Once your Kroger Plus Card is registered with the Foundation as your designated community rewards recipient, purchases you make using your Kroger Plus Card will help us accumulate quarterly rebate dollars! It's a great, easy way to help grow the Foundation so we appreciate your support. Sign up today!

Spring Cleaning Basket Raffle Winner!
3/23/2010

Lois Musser purchased the winning raffle ticket for a Spring Cleaning Basket from the Greater Fostoria Community Foundation booth at the 2010 Home & Outdoor Expo on Saturday, March 20th. Thank you, Lois, and all who supported the Foundation with your raffle ticket purchase.

Fall 2009 Matching Grants Awarded
3/10/2010

During the fall 2009 grant award process, three organizations were selected to receive matching grants totaling $11,000. The organizations had until the end of the year to raise a specific dollar amount in order to receive up to that same amount in a matching grant from the Foundation. The City of Fostoria Parks & Recreation Department received $5,000 for the purchase of apparatuses such as a launch pad, launch ramp, spine, benches and rails for the new Skatepark. The Fostoria Historical Society received a grant of $4,000 towards the repair of the southwest corner of their building, as the Fostoria Historical Museum cannot be used until this repair is made. The Fransican Earth Literacy Center received a grant of $2,000 for their Project S.T.R.A.W. initiative in which local residents and builders will learn how to build attractive, energy efficient homes that will create minimal or no utility bills.

Spring 2009 Grant Recipients
3/10/2010

The Greater Fostoria Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $7,000 in the spring of 2009. Camp Fire USA/Camp Glen was awarded $1,000 to provide scholarships for low income Fostoria families with youth in grades 2-12 to enjoy the 2009 summer resident camping season at Camp Glen. The Fostoria Chapter of the American Red Cross was granted $5,000 for the purchase of a dedicated disaster van for the transportation of equipment, volunteers and staff. Boy Scout Troup 450 received $1,000 for the purchase of equipment for participation in educational programs and outdoor activities like camping, hiking and swimming.

Fall Grant Recipient
12/18/2008

The Greater Fostoria Community Foundation (GFCF)has recently awarded a grant in the amount of $1,262 for the Fall of 2008. The recipient of the grant is: Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, Maumee Valley Region. The purpose of the grant is to help support the program, Salvaging Sisterhood, which the Girl Scouts' Regional office will be providing to girls age 12 - 17 in Fostoria schools. Salvaging Sisterhood teaches girls about the signs and dangers of relational aggression as well as how to avoid being a victim or bystander of this form of bullying. Salvaging Sisterhood combines activities that are fun, and of interest to girls, with methods that give girls the skills and experience they need to positively maneuver through society. With the Salvaging Sisterhood curriculum girls will be challenging behaviors and beliefs, using role playing, interactive games and small group discussions to bring awareness of how relational aggression affects the lives of girls everyday.