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by Clark Griswald
by Clark Griswald
The Lord’s Prayer: Third Petition
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Jack and Ruth Cannon
Community involvement discussions in the Rapid City area invariably come around to the late Jack and Ruth Cannon. Even now, the couple are remembered as people who embodied community involvement spanning the more than 50 years they spent in South Dakota. And their...
Luke Yellow Robe
Luke Yellow Robe is a living example that Native Americans can transcend the sense of hopelessness pervading America’s reservations. He grew up on reservations in several states, finally settling in Rapid City.Yellow Robe had the importance of community service...
Children’s Home Society of South Dakota
Next year marks the 125th anniversary of Children’s Home Society, which began as a humble Chicago orphanage in 1893.Children’s Home Society focused heavily on group homes for orphaned children for much of its long life. With the advent of the modern foster care system...
New Google Sheet
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Good Shepherd Clinic
The volunteers who run the Good Shepherd Clinic in Spearfish have seen tears—most often an overflow of gratitude for a service that the people they support would otherwise not be able to afford. “It’s so rewarding,” says Chris Davis, a volunteer with the program.The...
Larson Family Foundation
Whether it’s feeding the hungry, building a home, opening a museum or funding an education for a student, Dale and his late-wife Pat Larson always had one mission in mind—to help others.Dale Larson, chairman of the board at Larson Manufacturing in Brookings, has...
Tom Sannes
Tom Sannes says that when he served on the South Dakota Community Foundation (SDCF) board of directors, he received much more than he was able to give.“Going to meetings was like a two-day seminar for me on leadership,” he recalls. “I learned so much. It was a great...
Sanford Underground Research Facility
South Dakota Community Foundation (SDCF) recently made a $2 million program related investment to help scientists find darkness one mile underground, in an old gold mine. Why? Because finding this particular sort of elusive darkness has the potential to completely...
Cheyenne River Youth Project
Since 1988, Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) has worked diligently to give children and families on South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Reservation opportunities that wouldn’t normally be available to them. Founder and CEO Julie Garreau says the nonprofit strives to...