It has been a little over a year since the New Richland Area Foundation Fund was formed and began its quest to seek donors to build on the initial anonymous gift of $13,918 that the New Richland area received. Since that time, they have recently received another anonymous “donor advised” gift of $25,000 called the By-The-Grace-Of-God-Fund. The NRAFF has also granted out $1,500 and will be approving its second round of grants to be announced at the upcoming Farm and City Days Pancake Breakfast.

There will be a community meeting on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at New Richland City Hall beginning at 6:30 p.m. Presentations at the meeting will be given by Karen Buum, the Executive Director of the Waseca Area Foundation, and Pat Abbe, who is the Gift Planner Specialist for the Minnesota Community Foundation.

“We hope to see a huge crowd attend this meeting and learn more about how we all can contribute to the Foundation and how our granting process works, said Gail Schmidt, the NRAFF Representative. “Our community has always been, and hopefully will continue to be supportive of our local schools, churches and organizations, so they can continue to build and strengthen the community which we have all become so very proud of.”