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Latest RCCF Updates
A Gift from Your RMD Can Benefit You Today and Rush County Forever
If you are age 72 or older and have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), you must take a required minimum distribution (RMD) each year. An RMD is the amount of money that must be withdrawn from an employer-sponsored retirement plan, traditional IRA, SEP (Simplified Employee Pension Plan), or SIMPLE (Savings
Grantee Update: Posey Township Volunteer Fire Department
2020 Community Grants Recipient: $9,500 Submitted by: Zack Tucker In 2020 members of the Posey Township VFD realized a need to update the extrication tools that the department owned. After responding to previous vehicle accidents, fire fighters realized that the extrication tools that the department currently had in
CBAP Update: Report and Rush to Action Fund
“Be the change you want to see in the world,” is a quote most of us are familiar with. It’s wise advice to anyone looking to make their community better. That’s exactly what happened during the Community Based Action Planning (CBAP) sessions in early October. A group
Get To Know RCCF: Part 1 What is a Community Foundation?
This is Community Foundation Week – the perfect opportunity to kick-off this series to get to know the Rush County Community Foundation (RCCF) by explaining our mission and roles in the community. Community Foundation 101 Let’s start with the basics. What is a community foundation? The official
My Special Opportunity
by Alisa Winters, Executive Director At the end of 2020, I learned that I was selected as one of 24 participants in the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance’s (IPA) inaugural John Mutz Philanthropic Institute. Throughout the past year I enjoyed meeting monthly with philanthropic leaders from throughout the state
2021 Field of Interest Fund Grants Total Nearly $30,000
Fall is undoubtedly a busy time of year in Rush County. Farmers are harvesting their fields. At the Rush County Community Foundation (RCCF), we’re working our own fields – Field of Interest Funds that is! When a donor is passionate about a certain cause, she might start
