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.
... Tom Perry (Marietta College), President; Heather Allender (Marietta Community Foundation), President-Elect; Davis Powers (Skuttle Manufacturing),...more
If you would like to contribute to the Devola playground project, please use the fund established at the Marietta Community Foundation. EMCA Community...more
But a fund people used to support the playground was just removed this week from the Marietta Community Foundation's website, one of a few accounts that seem to exist although the original...more
Marietta Community Foundation announces the availability of scholarships for Washington County students. All scholarship applications can be found on the Foundation's website,...more
A recent grant from the Marietta Community Foundation will help the Ohio River Museum toward the eventual goal of making the site much more wheelchair accessible. While the $10,000 grant is a...more
The efforts to raise money for the development of a Marietta community dog park at Jackson Hill Park this year still continues and a fund is set up through the Marietta Community Foundation.
The...more
The Marietta Alumni and Friends Foundation is making efforts to provide funds that would benefit school projects in Marietta High School.
Community members as well as the Marietta Community...more
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