Little Kanawha Area Community Foundation
LKACF is OUR Community’s Foundation. It is a nonprofit public charity formed by local
citizens to build permanent, dedicated resources to benefit Calhoun and Wirt Counties’
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 Calhoun and Wirt 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 – Calhoun and Wirt Counties – and our unique
needs and vision of our future.
LKACF 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.
LKACF 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 LKACF fund or for use in community grantmaking, please
mail checks to the Little Kanawha Area Community Foundation, P.O. Box 944, Elizabeth, WV 26143.
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 Sarah Holt, our Program and Development Specialist, via email at sarah.holt@pacfwv.com
or by phone at 304-428-4438 or Judy Sjostedt, LKACF (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 Calhoun and Wirt County causes and organizations.
LKACF’s volunteer advisory board is made up of local business and community leaders to
oversee all Foundation activities. Current LKACF Board members include Board Chairman Jim
Bennett, Vice Chair Fred Rader, Secretary Nancy Bremar, and members Diane Ludwig, Pat Lydon,
Dee Scritchfield, Alvin Engelke, Daniel Metz, Russell Cline, Sandy Osborne, Bill Howley, Jim
Bruce, Karen Caltrider and Carrie Brainard. The LKACF 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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