Lieutenant Joe Duran and Captain Ashley Duran accept the Salvation Army's $5,000 grant from the PCF. That amount was matched by the Alaska Community Foundation Nourished Communities Fund.
The Petersburg Community Foundation distributed grants totaling nearly $50,000 to nine local organizations at its annual award reception Saturday, highlighting during the event that the local foundation's invested endowment has officially crossed $1 million for the first time.
Board chair Glorianne Wollen opened the ceremony by tracing the milestone back to the foundation's founding in 2008 as an affiliate of the Alaska Community Foundation, when its initial fundraising goal was $50,000.
"It is a long way from 50,000 to a million," Wollen said, as everyone in the reception raised their glass i...
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