Entries for June 2008

It is officially the summer season! A time we all like to slow down, take everything a little less seriously. Au contraire! Here at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, it is scholarship time. A very busy season and we take the process very seriously. Over the next few months, staff and volunteers will pour over each one of the student scholarship applications, matching the student’s profile with the criteria of one of the 214 different scholarship funds administered by the Foundation...

Remember your thrill the day you received your new two-wheeler?  As you learned how to ride with confidence, the training wheels were taken off and you pedaled away on your own. Then, you headed to a friend’s house without asking for a ride. You felt all grown up. It was your first “Independence Day”...

“I don’t know who paid for it, but I sure had a good time!” As youngsters, our mission in life is to live and learn. If we have fun along the way, then we are doubly blessed... 

The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation houses many distinct and unique charitable funds. Of the 480 funds the Foundation currently administers, there is a story behind each one that ultimately leads to their establishment. Such is the case with Centaur Stride, Inc. There are two endowments which have been initiated to benefit this not-for-profit organization...