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Cherokee Strip Community Foundation continues to enhance Northwest Oklahoma
Foundation: Cherokee Strip Community Foundation
When Carrie Sanders joined the Cherokee Strip Community Foundation in 2020, she had a decade of experience leading nonprofit organizations in Oklahoma, so she had first-hand experience dealing with the COVID pandemic.
"There were so many non-profits and businesses that needed help to keep their doors open, and we were able to provide that through grants and endowments," Sanders tells the Enid News & Eagle.
Now, with more than $32 million in assets and more than $1 million in grants and scholarships distributed annually, the foundation is "here to make the community and its residents' lives richer," Sanders says.
The foundation was started in 2000 by the Bower family, who wanted to help people in their community, so they traveled to Kansas to learn about a similar foundation.
"They wanted to help people, so they found a way," Sanders says.
Now, the family's legacy is "a legacy that I believe will stand the test of time," Sanders says.
"Being able to interact in person, and shake their hand, you really see the direct help," Sanders says.
"That's why we do this, that's why I do this: to help others."
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