Community Corner

Deadline Nearing to Apply for Grants from McLean Community Foundation

Last year foundation funded diverse projects to tune of $54,954.

The McLean Community Foundation is accepting proposals for its current grants cycle until Oct. 10, 2014. Applications can be found on the MCF’s website at mcleancommunityfoundation.org.

In 2013-14 the foundation funded projects as diverse as Share, Inc, a monument to honor victims of the Global War on Terrorism for American Legion Post 270, to training materials to Insight Memory Inc and Capitol Caring for an advanced technology bed. Total grants in 2013 totaled $54,954.

The McLean Community Foundation (MCF) is a non-profit formed in 1980 by the McLean Citizens Association to meet the philanthropic needs of a growing McLean community. Our focus is entirely and specifically on our McLean community and was established solely as a charitable foundation to benefit the residents of the McLean Planning District of Fairfax County.

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