The Marietta Community Foundation was founded in 1974 and headed by the late Carl L. Broughton. The Foundation became relatively dormant before being reactivated in 1992 through a sizable gift from two former Marietta residents, Mary Carolyn McCoy Mildren and William E. Mildren Sr. They established a trust in memory of their late parents to be used as a challenge grant encouraging community leader Robert E. Kirkbride to revitalize the Foundation.
All money raised goes toward a fund at the Marietta Community Foundation, which pays for a vacation for someone fighting cancer. "We give em that...more
The Civil War Round Table is affiliated with the Marietta Community Foundation. Donations to the foundation on behalf of the Civil War Round Table...more
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