Tucker Community Foundation donates 1,800 food boxes

PARSONS — The Tucker Community Foundation (TCF) has donated more than 1,800 food boxes for more than 200 families in the area.

TCF Chief Financial Officer Mike Moore said the TCF staff and volunteers packed 1,850 boxes of food and household items at the Mt. Storm Power Plant. The boxes will be enough for around 270 families in the TCF’s service area.

The service area includes Tucker, Barbour, Grant, Mineral, Pocahontas, Preston and Randolph counties in West Virginia and Garrett County in Maryland.

Present at the one-day event was TCF Executive Director David Cooper, TCF Board President Dr. David Moran, CFO Mike Moore, Development Director Angie Pase and employees Taylor Ambrose and Aggie Arnold.

Each family will receive five boxes with more than $300 worth of products, such as canned goods, pasta and other dry goods, paper products and cleaning products.

The TCF was “inspired by the flood of ’85, a group of individuals endeavored to create a local philanthropic organization. Thirty-three years on, the Tucker Community Foundation exemplifies the impact of rural philanthropy,” according to the Foundation’s website.

“We believe we have the duty to properly steward all donations that are received by the Foundation for the community,” the TCF value statement reads. “We must use the donations to create resources and benefits now, tomorrow and long into the future. We are a motivational model for a sounder, more productive future through commitment to our community: teaching giving without expecting monetary return.”

The TCF also believes that “promoting and protecting our heritage is so important it should be a part of all decision-making within the Foundation,” and also believe in “high standards of conduct and ethics; in being open and honest with the community, donors, foundation grantees and ourselves; that avoiding conflict of interest in both acts and appearance is of the utmost importance; and that communicating our values to the public is an important part of our organization and its service to the community.”

To learn more about the Tucker Community Foundation, visit www.tuckerfoundation.net. To contact the TCF, call 304-478-2930 or email at edirector@tuckerfoundation.net.