Jackson County Community Foundation
JCCF is OUR Community’s Foundation. It is a nonprofit public charity
formed by local citizens to build permanent, dedicated resources to benefit
Jackson County residents, causes, and nonprofit organizations now and far
into the future. We create permanent charitable funds called endowments that
supply resources to make grants that meet important community needs and supply
scholarships for local students.
We are managed by a local advisory board of Jackson County citizens. We have
chosen to affiliate with the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (PACF), a
well-respected local Foundation that has provided deserving students with scholarships,
worthy organizations with grants, and delivered charitable resources to our
region since 1963. Our affiliate relationship brings us shared administrative
and investment services and professional staff expertise, while letting us focus
exclusively on developing resources for our county – Jackson County – and our unique
needs and vision of our future.
JCCF provides a lasting, local, flexible, and easy way to support our community.
The Foundation is a public charity, tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code; donors receive the maximum possible tax advantages for gifts.
JCCF can accept many different types of 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 donors to explore all giving options. Donors 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 their own named funds to provide funding for charitable causes that are important
to them. With a certain minimum sum, donors can create their own fund, which allows one
to name the fund and establish the charitable purpose and use of the fund.
To contribute any cash to any existing JCCF fund or for use in community grantmaking,
please mail checks to the Jackson County Community Foundation, P.O. Box 565, Ripley, WV
25271. To contribute stock (or other types of assets), please call the Foundation’s
Executive Director, Judy Sjostedt, toll free at 1-866-428-4438 for information and
instructions.
Contact Jane Winters, our Manager of Regional Affiliates, via email at jane.winters@pacfwv.com
or by phone at 304-372-8588 or Judy Sjostedt, JCCF (PACF) 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 Jackson County causes and organizations.
JCCF’s volunteer advisory board is made up of local business and community leaders to oversee
all Foundation activities. Current JCCF Board members include Board Chairman Doug Ritchie, Vice
Chairs Fred Shipley, Arlene Kuryla, Rodd Hartley, and Tom Weyer, Secretary Greta Tyler, and
members Dick Waybright, Phyllis Fox, Bray Cary, Bea Isner, Natalie Harvey, Angela Frame, Larry
Hancock, Carla Parsons, and Jennie Waugh. The JCCF Board works in conjunction with the Board of
the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation through our status as an affiliate and has a Board
seat on the PACF Board as a part of our partnership for the good of our region.
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