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Conklin bequest is largest gift to the Wabash Valley Community Foundation
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The Wabash Valley Community Foundation has received
its largest single gift ever, an amount in excess of $1.2 million from
the estate of Clarabelle Conklin.
Mrs. Conklin, who passed away in January 2005, left the Community
Foundation 60 percent of her estate, more than $1.2 million, to be
added to the Dr. and Mrs. James Conklin Scholarship Fund. That fund has
been in existence since 1995.
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WVCF Meets National Standards
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Council on Foundations Recognizes Wabash Valley Community Foundation for Compliance with National Accountability Standards
(Terre Haute) - Wabash Valley Community Foundation is being recognized
for having organizational and financial practices that are in
accordance with the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations.
The Council on Foundations and leaders of the community foundation
field created the National Standards in 2000 to aid community
foundations in establishing legal, ethical and effective operational
practices that would show the foundations' transparency and financial
responsibility in light of the increased public scrutiny of foundation
practices.
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