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Weekly UpdatesNO, THAT'S NOT the most eye-catching headline ever devised. But for those who believe that steady investment and careful planning are the way to ensure NCEW's survival into the future--and count me as one of those--the headline is good news.
Thanks to an inaugural gift by the husband and children of longtime newspaper editor, columnist, and NCEW booster Nancy Q. Keefe, we finally have a fund set up to receive bequest and endowment gifts. The interest on contributions made to the Nancy Q. Keefe Endowment Fund will go to support the work of the NCEW Foundation.
This is an investment in NCEW's long-term health if not survival--and a fully tax deductible one at that.
Keefe, whose columns ran in the Gannett newspapers of Westchester and Putnam counties, passed away in 2004 at the tender age of 69. She was an active member and a board member of NCEW throughout her long newspaper career, and her family decided to honor her memory by helping to ensure that the organization she loved and worked so hard for, will endure.
We hope you will consider including NCEW in your will or estate plans as well. You may also consider giving a gift directly into the endowment fund. All bequests in the name of the NCEW Foundation and all checks made out to the Nancy Q. Keefe Endowment Fund will be put into an endowment for NCEW's future.
Nancy passed a vibrant professional organization to us-now we have to keep it that way.
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Robyn Blumner is an editorial writer and columnist for the St. Petersburg Times, an NCEW Foundation board member, and Nancy Q. Keefe Endowment Fund donor.
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