Wellington Community Foundation board members: (front row) Mickey Smith, Karen Cavanagh, Robbin Lee and Maria Becker; and (back row) Barry Manning, Tom Wenham, Maggie Zeller, Ken Adams and Jim Sackett.
Wellington Community Foundation Marks One Year Helping Residents In Need
By Julie Unger
The Wellington Community Foundation is celebrating its first anniversary of helping those in need in the community. “The board of directors is very dedicated,” Wellington Community Foundation Chairman Tom Wenham said. “It’s a privilege and an honor to serve on a foundation that looks after the people of the community that you live in.” The foundation, once a little-used nonprofit entity controlled by the Village of Wellington, was re-imagined a year ago as an independent organization with a mission to support a wide array of community projects. A former Wellington mayor, Wenham leads the board,
which includes attorney Mickey Smith, community activist Maria Becker, Wellington Regional Medical Center CEO Robbin Lee, Town-Crier Publisher Barry Manning, former Palm Beach County Commissioner Ken Adams, local businesswomen Karen Cavanagh and Maggie Zeller, and retired WPTV news anchor Jim Sackett. “I am so pleased with the cohesiveness of our board of directors,” Manning said. “We’ve been operating for one year, but it seems like the team has been together for decades. It is a pleasure working with them.” The foundation team has been working to better the lives of those most in need in the community, in particular, seniors and children. “What the foundation does not want to be is just a
The foundation donates money to Back to Basics for school uniforms; foundation supporters take part in street cleaning through Wellington’s Adopt-A-Street program; and WCF board members at Wellington’s back-to-school event in August.
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