Merrick Foundation: Making an Impact Together

I’m thrilled to listen to this Podcast. I am even more thrilled to share it with everyone I know. We love the Merrick Foundation and I hope, after you listen to this Podcast that you will too. My husband and I moved to Merrick County 11 years ago. We wanted to raise our family in a small community where they could learn the power of a close-knit community. We fell in love with the area and reached a point where we wanted to start giving back. The Merrick Foundation directs our funds to the people and organizations who need it. We started small, by setting up monthly giving to the General Endowment fund. Our small monthly contributions were invested and then, distributed to those who apply and are awarded. Recently, we decided to set up an Acorn fund. Again, we contribute each month and the Merrick Foundation manages the funds and invests it until we reach $5k or when we are ready to decide who will benefit from our contributions. This was a win-win for us. We could designate an amount that works for us now, knowing that down the road, it will add up and we can decide at a later date how we want to distribute it to those who we see that need it.