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.
"I wish that this program was available when I was a child."
That's one parent's take on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which provides free books to low-income children in communities across...more
Heather Allender, president & CEO of Marietta Community Foundation, was appreciative and is encouraging the community to keep the momentum going....more
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