Genelle Deist, Chair of the Audubon County Community Foundation, is pleased to announce that the Foundation received an estate gift of $5,000 from Milo & Dolores Clemmensen this summer. Those funds will be used to support two projects: the “Albert the Bull” project received $3,000 for maintenance, while the Friendship Home received $2,000 for renovations. Milo & Dolores Clemmensen were lifelong Audubon residents. Dolores passed away in 2013 at age 83 and Milo passed away in January 2017 at age 89. They participated in many aspects of community life: Chamber of Commerce, Audubon County Treasurer’s Office, Audubon Fire Department, Audubon State Bank, Audubon Golf & Country Club, and countless social clubs and community betterment causes. Their children asked the Audubon County Community Foundation to assist in a Fall distribution of their estate gift to the community that was interwoven in their parents’ lives.

The nonprofit organizations submitted applications to the Audubon County Community Foundation by the September 1st deadline, and were awarded their Milo & Dolores Clemmensen grants along with the other grantees by the ACCF Board. Audubon County agency representatives received their checks on October 26th.

Board members of the Audubon County Community Foundation are: Chair, Genelle Deist of Audubon; Vice Chair, Joel Hoegh of rural Brayton; Secretary/Treasurer, Barbara Johnson of Audubon; Shelley Burr of Audubon; Steven B. Hansen of rural Audubon; Daryl Olsen of Audubon; and Joseph T. Rasmussen of Exira. For information about donating or establishing an individual foundation/fund, please contact any of the Board Members, or call Dennis Nissen, Iowa Foundations Director, at 800-794-3458.