Spotlight Fund - The Cody Family

Our involvement with the Community Foundation began when we asked for their assistance with the Ruth Jackson Cody (our sister-in-law) trust to provide school children with warm coats and shoes during cold winters.

Our own Cody Family Fund continues that tradition and gives us and our sons a means of helping our neighbors, thus returning some of the good this community has given us.
- Chuck and Fran Cody -

Grants, Donor-Advised and Designated Funds

Since 2003 we have made grants totaling over $180,000.

In 2009 a total of over $41,000 was awarded in grants and scholarships from our donor-advised and designated funds. 

The following organizations received grants in 2009:

• Hood River Valley High School
• The Next Door Inc.
• The Next Door Inc. (Big Brothers Big Sisters)
• Hood River Middle School (greenhouse project)
• Hood River Adopt-a-Dog Foundation
• Hospice of The Gorge
• Hood River County Commission on Children and Families (to support the Chop Yasui Youth Activities Fund)
• Soroptimist Int’l. of Hood River
• Helping Hands Against Violence Inc.
• Mitch Hecomovich Foundation
• Columbia Gorge Center (sheltered workshop)
• FISH
• Mid-Columbia Habitat for Humanity
• Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute
• PROD
• Columbia Arts
• SMART
• Hood River County Historical Museum
• Hood River County Education Foundation (Sayre Taft Colt Memorial Fund)
• Columbia Gorge Children’s Advocacy Center
• Hood River County 4-H Leaders Association
• American Red Cross (disaster relief in Hood River County)
• Mosier Community School Foundation
• Mt. Hood Towne Hall
• Hood River Library Foundation

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