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Iroquois-Carthage Area Community Foundation
Learn about the CSA in Iroquois-Carthage, SD area.
Cheyenne River Youth Project
Since 1988, Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) has worked diligently to give children and families on South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Reservation opportunities that wouldn’t normally be available to them. Founder and CEO Julie Garreau says the nonprofit strives to create and maintain engaging youth programs that not only bring hope and opportunity to children on the reservation, but also directly address larger community issues.
Special Olympics South Dakota
Special Olympics South Dakota gave Watertown’s Justin Elliott the adventure of a lifetime.
Sanford Underground Research Facility
South Dakota Community Foundation (SDCF) recently made a $2 million program related investment to help scientists find darkness one mile underground, in an old gold mine. Why? Because finding this particular sort of elusive darkness has the potential to completely rewrite our understanding of the universe.
Bernie Christenson
When Governor George S. Mickelson asked Bernie Christenson to start a Community Foundation for the state of South Dakota in 1987, Christenson quipped that he wasn’t even quite sure how to spell ‘philanthropy.’ But he still said “yes,” because Christenson knew it would be a legacy that would make the Governor proud, and transform the state for good.
Mary and Michael Fuchs
What better way to honor his wife, thought Michael Fuchs, than setting up a fund at the South Dakota Community Foundation to help some of the young women she cares most deeply about? “I wanted to recognize her and her passion for the Abbott House,” says Michael, who set up the Mary E. Fuchs Scholarship Fund a year ago.
Looking Ahead
The South Dakota Community Foundation has experienced unprecedented growth in the dollars our donors invest in our endowment, and unprecedented impact in the dollars we’ve been able to grant back into organizations—and the people running them—across our state.
Build Dakota Scholarship Fund
Jack and Ruth Cannon
Community involvement discussions in the Rapid City area invariably come around to the late Jack and Ruth Cannon. Even now, the couple are remembered as people who embodied community involvement spanning the more than 50 years they spent in South Dakota. And their work isn’t yet done.
Yankton Area Foundation
Keep the Legacy Alive