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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.

Five recent Otto-Eldred High School graduates recently received scholarship awards from funds established at and managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation to support graduating OEHS students.

Four area graduating seniors recently received scholarships for students pursuing health care field-related degrees from funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.

Two graduating Portville Central School seniors recently received scholarship awards managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation for students pursuing trade/technical careers.

Two area graduating seniors recently received the Patrick Shinners Memorial Team Player Scholarship, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation

Nine agencies recently received grants, together totaling, $9,0000, from the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation's Community Fund for special projects and programs that support youth development, elder services, an area emergency health care organization and more.

Two graduating Cuba-Rushford Central School seniors recently received scholarships awards managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.