[jane032657]

I was just going to post the above so thank you for doing so.

I have just joined the Community Foundation as a Board of Director and been to two meetings so I am not a historian for the Foundation.

However, speaking for today, we have recently met and are bringing the Foundation back to life out of its dormancy. You can see it has done good things before. Now we are focused on recreating that positive energy and playing it forward.

To this effort, we are focusing on a theme of "Villagers Helping Villagers". But as in all things, to have success with this mission, we need to generate revenue for this purpose. We are all volunteers and the spaghetti dinner, while not a large fund raiser, is a great awareness raiser-look at our conversation now, already we are talking about it! Fantastic.

So give us time to move forward, enjoy this community dinner if you can make it, watch us develop a strategy, raise some funds, and then begin to be able to reach out to our neighbors in The Villages and find a process as to how to prioritize needs and accept requests for future funding.

Thank you for your questions and we look forward to having a vibrant Community Foundation to assist Villagers Helping Villagers as we raise our presence, our income, and then our charity giving!