Thursday, November 16, 2017
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A DONATION presented to the Opotiki Museum on Tuesday will be used to help safeguard valuable items.
The Eastern Bay Community Foundation donated $1036, which museum manager Dot Wilson said would go towards purchasing display cabinets for valuable items.
Eastern Bay Community Foundation chairman Doug Bull and Opotiki Museum chairman Graeme Redpath are pictured shaking hands as the money is handed over while museum manager Dot Wilson, key museum volunteer Verna McDonnell and Eastern Bay Community Foundation executive officer Rosemary Sloman look on.
Community foundations
Community foundations are instruments of civil society designed to pool donations into a coordinated investment and grant making facility dedicated primarily to the social improvement of a given place.
The community foundation movement started in the United States and Canada around the middle of the 20th century and has rapidly spread across the western world.
There are 14 established community foundations in New Zealand.
The Eastern Bay Community Foundation is encouraging people to leave a gift in their will or during their lifetime to benefit the Eastern Bay forever.
People leave money to the Eastern Bay Community Foundation and the investment income is used to make donations to local charities and community groups.
Donors can specify a particular charity that they want their annual distribution to go to, or they can leave it to the trustees to decide where their money is best needed.