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FRIENDS “STEP UP AND DIG DEEP”

By Peter Ingram

Peter presents pledge check to Julia Bott at Friends General Meeting

At its September 9 meeting, the Executive Committee took a bold step into the future by voting to pledge $10,000 to the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation for the Edgewood Interpretive Center construction fund.

As we heard in July from Julia Bott, Foundation Executive Director, the approach to raising $1.5 million will rely on leveraging early contributions from individuals and businesses in the community and especially “challenge pledges” from organizations like the Friends.

Now that the Friends have “stepped up” on the creation of the Center, there is another challenge facing us—and one of equal importance to construction: long-term funding of the operation and staffing of the Center once it is open. Providing operations support in terms of funding and volunteer staffing is critical considering the County’s budget crisis.

The Executive Committee identified a goal of donating $1,000 per year beginning in late 2005, with the details of how we can accomplish this goal to be considered in the first half of 2005. If you have suggestions, please let us know!

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