Forever Frederick County

Endowing Our Community's Future

Supporting families with children is one of the current needs in Frederick County as determined by the 2018 Human Needs Assessment Report. Many of today's families with children are in a precarious position facing an uncertain future.

What will be our most pressing needs as a community in ten, twenty, fifty years and more? Homelessness, substance use disorder, parents who can't feed their children, lack of public education? It's impossible to know, yet preparedness is key.

What is possible is that you can make a difference and be part of finding solutions that ensure Frederick County's future is bright. You can be the influence for change.

The Forever Frederick County campaign will create funds to provide strategic grants based on Frederick County's most pressing needs as determined by the 2018 Human Needs Assessment and similar studies going forward.

Can you imagine eradicating homelessness in Frederick County? Providing affordable health care for all who need it? Helping seniors age in place? Eliminating lives lost because of addiction? These are just a few examples of the greatest needs that currently exist.

Building a flexible fund to tackle Frederick County's current and emerging needs is a vital and necessary step that will help ensure the quality of life we know and enjoy."

Dr. Sonja Sperlich, Forever Frederick County Campaign donor

How Will Your Gift to Forever Frederick County Make A Difference?

The Community Foundation is being a proactive leader in addressing the greatest needs as they emerge, and many donors have already sought our guidance. They have put their trust in the board and staff to invest their charitable gifts and grant them wisely, to act with integrity, and to communicate with transparency.

Every strategic grant made from Forever Frederick County funds will be with the intention of vastly improving an area of greatest need. Interested in learning more? Read our Forever Frederick County Case for Support.

You can help.

You can be part of this movement. You can be the influence for change. You can be a leader by stepping forward. Your gift today will help ensure that Frederick County is forever.

Are you ready to be an influence for change and be part of Forever Frederick County?

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Some of our generous donors who have given their support to Forever Frederick County include:

Founding Donors

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Ausherman Fund
Nevin S. Baker Fund
Sam and Joan Barrick Fund
J. Milton Brunk Memorial Endowment Fund
C. Lester and Dorothy Dudrow Fund
Frederick Brick Works, Inc., Fund
Frederick County Developers, Inc. Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Guy E. Kelly Fund
Don Linton Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Main Fund
Wayne C. Neely and Margaret S. Neely Fund
Edwin F. Nikirk Family Fund
W. Jerome Offutt Family Fund
Peter H. and Lorraine Plamondon Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Myron W. Randall Fund
F. Lawrence and Shirley J. Silbernagel Endowment Fund
Klare S. Sunderland Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Thomas Unrestricted Endowment Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Waltz Fund
De Willard Family Fund
Bob and Becky Windsor Fund
Jean Wright Memorial Fund

Additional Unrestricted Fund Founders

BB&T Unrestricted Fund
R. Perry and Ethel Beckley Fund
Joseph D. Byrd Fund
Nancy's Charitable Fund
Lester and Dorothy Dudrow Fund
Frederick Mutual Insurance Company Fund
John L. and Lucille H. Ponton Endowment Fund
Millard Milburn Rice and Mabel Long Rice Family Trust
General Clair Wayne Shisler Fund
Lynne Marie Warner Memorial Fund
Janis Miller Wertheimer Endowment Fund

Secondary Intentions

Samuel W. and Joan J. Barrick Fund
BB&T Fund
Isaiah Charles Brown Memorial Fund
Ken and Lynn Burdette Donor-Advised Fund
Marion D. and Alice E. Carmack Endowment Fund
Gordon M. and Teresa Warfield Cooley Charitable Gift Fund
Don Doughty and Linda Moran Fund
Jean Ellis and Florence Guss Memorial Fund
Norman W., Edna V. and Dorothy L. Etzler Memorial Fund
Fair-McCormack Family Fund
Ford/Tolman Fund
Lewis and Clara Fraley Memorial Fund
Franck/Greenwood Fund
Frederick Jaycees Fund
Frederick Mutual Insurance Company Donor-Advised Fund
FoodPRO CORP Fund
Halleman Family Fund
D. Hunt and Joan Hendrickson Fund
Charles W. Hoff, III and Margaret O. Hoff Family Fund
Robert G. Hooper Family Fund
William Hurwitz Memorial Endowment Fund
Lyons Family Fund
Make a Difference in Thurmont Fund
Marmet Family Fund
Morgan-Keller, Inc., Endowment Fund
Patriot Technologies Charitable Fund
Ruth Ann Randall and James Edwin Smith Fund
Philip Rauh Family Endowment Fund
Dr. Harold and Anna Lee Schaden Memorial Fund
Linda M. Snyder Memorial Fund
David and Kay Stauffer Family Fund
Dan and Jackie Ward Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Warfield Fund
Will Group Fund

Cornerstone Donors

Anonymous Donor #13
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur O. Anderson
Mrs. Elizabeth J. Brady
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Brunk
Mr. and Mrs. D. Hunt Hendrickson
Mrs. Janet E. King
Ms. Eileen Mercer
Ms. Meredith “Marty” Mercer-Akre
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Nicodemus
Mrs. Marcella D. Shtatman
Dr. Sonja B. Sperlich
Dr. Ashley Waters
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Wilson

New Unrestricted Fund Founders and Donors

Ausherman Family Trust
Mr. Nick Carrera
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cooley
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Shoemaker
Dr. Sonja B. Sperlich
Ms. Lois Noffsinger Spurrier