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The Allegany-Cattaraugus-Chautauqua Fund for Women (ACC FFW) announces today the launch of its year-end fundraising campaign, including a holiday plant sale. Funds raised during this period will support the ACC FFW's grant making activities in 2022 to benefit women seeking financial assistance for long-term financial self-sufficiency.

When skateboarding legend Tony Hawk donated his blood to be painted into 100 skateboards, he probably did not think it would play a major role in a group of Ellicottville skatepark advocates meeting a match offered by The Skatepark Project, a nonprofit that Hawk founded himself.

Thanks to the support the Redding Endowment Fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, third graders at Hinsdale Central School had access to new books, STEM supplies, digital lessons and rewards when returning to school this year.

Scholarship applications are now available for those applying for membership of the Leadership Cattaraugus Class of 2022 through the organization's scholarship fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

With the support of area businesses and individuals, a prize package of over $17,000 will be available to nonprofits participating in Cattaraugus Gives, a day of giving for the Cattaraugus County region.

The Ellicottville Skatepark Committee (SK8EVL) is closing in on their deadline to raise as much funding as possible to apply towards a matching grant that will pave the way to building an outdoor concrete skatepark for the community.

Throughout the year, the Kids and Cancer Fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation provides financial support patients, especially children and their families, facing medical treatment for cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.

For the Holcomb family, life and work on their family farm in Portville was everything. Donald Holcomb and his wife, Bern (Clayson), operated Butternut Farms, a 600-acre farm that spanned the border of Cattaraugus County and Allegany County.

When Ann Marie Sitter Tompkins and other volunteers originally decided to run a coat drive to provide warm winter clothes to children in need in 2020, they thought it would be a one-time effort.

Recently established at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, the Kathleen Loop Snyder Memorial Scholarship will provide support to graduating seniors in the Smethport (PA) Area School District for many years to come.

The recently established James A. and Joan E. Maguire Family Scholarship Fund will support hard-working graduating seniors of four local high schools beginning in 2022.

Advocates of the proposed Ellicottville Skatepark (SK8EVL) are excited to announce a major grant that puts the project within reach of its goal.

Cattaraugus Gives, a day of giving for the Cattaraugus County area, led by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, will return on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 for the fifth consecutive year.

Applications for the next grant funding cycle of the Community Fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation will be accepted beginning September 1, with a deadline of October 21.

Jim and Pat (Vossler) Long fondly remember their education at Allegany Central High School and St. Bonaventure University and recently decided to pass on the opportunity for those great memories to a new generation of students graduating from Allegany-Limestone Central School and attending St. Bonaventure.

Five Olean High School graduates recently received awards from scholarship funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation

Olean High School graduates recently received awards from the Joann Wehmeyer English Scholarship and other scholarship funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Five Olean High School graduates recently received awards from scholarship funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, including the newly established Robert E. Hull VMD Memorial Scholarship.

Six Olean High School graduates recently received awards from scholarship funds established at and managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation to benefit graduating Olean students.

Three Hinsdale Central School graduates received scholarship awards from funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation to support graduating Hinsdale seniors continuing their education.

Two recent area graduates received this year's Laurie Anzivine Memorial Scholarship, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

The Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation is now accepting applications for this year's grants from the Mental Wellness in Cattaraugus County Fund.

Eight area graduating seniors recently received scholarships from the Big 30 Athletic Fund at Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Four Allegany-Limestone Central School graduates recently received awards from scholarship funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation. 

Six Allegany-Limestone Central School graduates recently received awards from scholarship funds established in memory of past area residents and managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Recent Allegany-Limestone Central School graduates received awards this year from the Frank A. Martin III Memorial Scholarship, Bob and Barbara McCord and Jack Karl Scholarship and Louis W. Ensworth Charitable Foundation Trust Scholarship funds, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Recent graduates of Olean High and Portville Central schools received awards this year from funds, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, established in memory or honor of past educators and members of law enforcement.

Five recent area graduates recently received the Jonathan Teuscher Scholarship, a four-year scholarship managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, together receiving $12,500, over the four years of the award.

Twelve recent Portville Central School graduates received awards from the Portville College Scholarship Fund and Dr. Donald A. Wormer Family Scholarship Fund, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Two area graduates recently received scholarship awards from the Cattaraugus County Trappers Memorial Scholarship Fund for aspiring conservationists and lovers of the outdoors, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Five area graduates of Portville Central School and Olean High School recently received scholarship awards from scholarship funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, including the Ben & Rose Schwabenbauer Educational Scholarship and the Tim Bushnell Memorial Scholarship.

Four Ellicottville Central School graduates recently received scholarship awards from funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Three area graduates recently received scholarship awards being made for the first time under from newly established scholarship funds, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community.

Three recent Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School graduates received scholarship awards from funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Eight area graduates recently received awards from scholarship funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation to support students pursing degrees in business-related areas of study.

When Carol Gloff established the Little Valley Fund, she did so with the dream of giving back to and supporting beautification projects and activities to foster a more vibrant future for the hometown she loved.

Five recent Ten Broeck Academy/Franklinville Central School graduates recently received scholarship awards from funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Eleven recent area graduates of six Cattaraugus County high schools recently received awards from the Gregory D. Spring Perseverance Scholarship Fund, an annual scholarship managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Four recent area graduates recently received awards from the Burt Scholarship Fund, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Four area graduating seniors or recent graduates recently received the John J. Murphy Family Scholarship, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.