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Ritchie County Community Foundation

RCCF is OUR Community’s Foundation. A nonprofit public charity formed by local citizens, we build permanent, dedicated resources to benefit Ritchie County residents, causes, and nonprofit organizations now and far into the future. We create permanent charitable funds called endowments to supply resources to make grants for important community needs and  scholarships for local students.

We are managed by a local advisory board of Ritchie County citizens. We are an affiliate organization of the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (PACF), a well-respected local Foundation that has delivered charitable resources to our region since 1963. Our affiliate relationship brings us shared administrative and investment services, including professional staff expertise, while letting us focus exclusively on developing resources for our county – Ritchie County – and our unique needs and vision of our future. RCCF provides a lasting, local, flexible, and easy way to support our community. A public charity, RCCF is tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; donors receive the maximum possible tax advantages for gifts.

See our Top Priorities to learn about the many ways that you can help. RCCF accepts various gifts – you can contribute cash, securities, real estate, life insurance, tangible property, make a bequest in a will, create a charitable remainder or lead trust, or use other types of deferred giving. We welcome the opportunity to work with you to explore all giving options. You can contribute any amount for unrestricted purposes (for use in community grantmaking); make a gift in honor of or in memory of a loved one; add to an existing fund to strengthen it; or even set up your own named fund (with certain minimums) to support charitable causes that are important to you.

To contribute any cash to any existing RCCF fund or for use in community grantmaking, please mail checks to the Ritchie County Community Foundation, P.O. Box 178, Harrisville, WV 26362. To contribute stock (or other non-cash assets), please call our Executive Director, Judy Sjostedt, toll free at 1-866-428-4438; to learn more online, visit the Donor Welcome Center.

Contact Jane Winters, our Regional Affiliates Manager, via email at jane.winters@pacfwv.com or by phone at 304-428-4438 or Judy Sjostedt, Executive Director at 304-428-4438 (toll free 1-866-428-4438), fax 428-1200, or via email at info@pacfwv.com . Our Board members also welcome inquiries from persons interested in helping Ritchie County causes and organizations.