As I look back on 2023 and my overall tenure on the Washington County Community Foundation Board of Trustees, I do so with pride of the many accomplishments our relatively young foundation has achieved. When I first joined the WCCF Board in 2010, our assets were only $9 million, and we had just ...
Wylandville Elementary kindergarten teacher Sally Jeswilkowski was called to the principal’s office. For her, it wasn’t, “Uh, oh, what did I do wrong?” No, she thought she was going to Zoom with a parent. It wasn’t a parent. It was the Pittsburgh Pirates staff, informing her that ...
The Washington County Community Foundation announces its annual WCCF Gives 2024 event. The WCCF has cumulatively awarded close to $12 million in unrestricted grants to Washington County charities through WCCF Gives. Each year, this annual community-wide giving event is supported by thousands ...
The Washington County Community Foundation (WCCF) is seeking the help of community members to serve on focus groups being convened to assess broad community needs in Washington County. Community foundations periodically conduct assessments to identify community needs, often using that ...
Genetically, humans and dogs are more than 90% identical. In fact, research reveals startling physiological similarities between us and our four-legged companions, including everything from our gut microbiomes and the cellular effects of oxidative stress to the function of the limbic system, ...
Years ago, at a blackjack table in the Austrian Alps, a chance encounter between an international lawyer and a student experiencing her first time abroad ignited a lifelong partnership that has spanned decades and reverberated across continents. This scenario sounds like the premise of a ...
