Archive for Community Improvement & Vitality

David W. Knapp Fund

David Knapp, longtime Guilford resident, established the David W. Knapp Fund in 2016. It’s unrestricted so it can be directed towards existing and future needs of the town.

Mancini Family Fund

Jim and Liz Mancini established the Mancini Family Fund at The Guilford Foundation in 2016 to ensure that resources will always be available to help those in our community with basic needs.

Jared Eliot Fund

Acquiring an important piece of open space, providing environmental education, or maintaining trails and building a viewing platform are among the community investments envisioned by William (Bill) Bloss, who recently established the Jared Eliot Fund on behalf of an anonymous donor.

Guilford Interfaith Volunteers Endowment Fund

Guilford Interfaith Volunteers (GIV) established this fund in 2014 to ensure that resources would exist forever to support their important work of providing critical basic need services to residents.

Bill & Kate Lee Family Fund to Support the Guilford Community Fund

A unique situation in which Bill and Kate Lee established an endowed fund to provide a permanent source of funding for another philanthropic community organization.

Gustave & Carol L. Sirot Fund

Carol Sirot established the Guilford Foundation’s very first donor advised fund in 2012 in her name and the name of her late husband, Gustave.

Guilford Bell Curve Charitable Fund

A group of 25 teammates from the Guilford Bell Curve Soccer Club came together in 2012 to establish one of The Guilford Foundation’s first donor advised funds.

Lou & Susan Weady Fund

This designated fund supports fund supports the Guilford Agricultural Society and their focus on Guilford’s agrarian legacy.

Effie Good Fund

A great philanthropist, Effie Good was a lifelong resident how loved Guilford. In 2006, an unrestricted fund was set up to support her her goal of keeping things local.

Elizabeth Stevens Tree Fund

As one of the seven Guilford residents that formed TGF, the Foundation established a field of interest fund in the name of visionary Betty Stevens to maintain the trees around the green.