Conservation fund celebrates surpassing challenge grant

Generous supporters of the Coastal Community Foundation’s Lowcountry Conservation Loan Fund, which helps conservation groups purchase habitat and scenic land with short-term low-interest loans, surpassed a Turner Foundation Challenge “Matching Grant” of $150,000 with more than $165,000 in gifts. To celebrate the occasion, Teddy Turner hosted a barbecue for the donors at the Turner family’s Hope Plantation. Enjoying the festivities, from left, are Phillip Lammonds, Carolyn Godley, manager, Hope Plantation; Turner, Madeleine McGee, president, CCF; and John Maybank, board chairman, CCF.

Charities win big with football fundraiser The Windwood Farm For Boys, Charleston Hearing Aid Band, Coastal Crisis Chaplainry, Crisis Ministries, Eagle Harbor, Camp Happy Days and Special Times, His Way Ministry, Sertoma Foundation, SC Scottish Rite Center and Halos were recipients of $45,500 from the Sertoma Club of Charleston. The funds were raised at the club’s Muhler Sertoma 35th annual High School Football Classic last August. Pictured: Sertoma Classic Chairman Billy Hughes, left, presents Windwood Farm For Boys’ Jody Tamsberg, middle, a check from Sertoma Charities. Sertoma President Richard Moss is pictured right.

Several new affordable homes available thanks to consortium

The Charleston Bank Consortium has built and/or renovated seven homes on Dingle Street in partnership with the Mayor’s Homeownership Initiative. The consortium has been providing potential home buyers with the funds needed to purchase their first home since 1994 and has expanded its efforts to include the construction of new affordable homes for first time buyers in the city of Charleston. Families who are now new homeowners on Dingle Street thanks to the consortium are Wilhelmina McPherson, David Taylor and Sarah Ayers.

MeadWestvaco donates to several local charities

MeadWestvaco and its employees presented donations totaling $621,779 to Trident United Way, the American Cancer Society, March of Dimes and the American Heart Association. Pictured, from left, Trenor Hypes, MeadWestvaco; Vicki Johnson, MeadWestvaco; David Nicole, Trident United Way; Rick Hyatt, MeadWestvaco; Sundi Herring, American Cancer Society Hope Lodge; and Katie Schmacher, March of Dimes.

Planning the Globe raises funds for ovarian cancer awareness

Veronica Walsh, president and founder of Planning the Globe, presented a donation to the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition’s Lexington chapter. The funds were raised in 2005 by the Mount Pleasant-based event production company as part of an industry campaign to raise awareness of the company’s strengths and raise funds for the coalition. The company’s outreach effort, called Got Dave, elicited votes for Dave Felix for a major national award and Planning the Globe promised to match every vote with a dollar for cancer research support.

SUBSCRIBE | REPRINTS | CONTACT US

Phone: 843-849-3100    Fax: 843-849-3122