Mason County Community Foundation
MCCF is OUR Community’s Foundation. It is a nonprofit public charity formed
by local citizens to build permanent, dedicated resources to benefit Mason
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 Mason 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 – Mason County
– and our unique needs and vision of our future.
MCCF 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.
MCCF 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 MCCF fund or for use in community grantmaking,
please mail checks to the Mason County Community Foundation, P.O. Box 66, Point Pleasant,
WV 25550. 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, MCCF (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 Mason County
causes and organizations.
MCCF’s volunteer advisory board is made up of local business and community leaders to
oversee all Foundation activities. Current MCCF Board members include Board Chairman Suzanne
Dickens, Vice Chair Darlene Haer, Secretary Amy Leach, and members Mario Liberatore, Juanita
Burdette, Bryan Stepp, Charles Lanham, Jack Fowler, John Musgrave, Brent Clark, Scott Barnitz,
Al Lawson, JD, FACHE, Bill Barker, Bob Baird, Dallas Kayser and Homer Preece. The MCCF 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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