Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Christel de Haan Family Foundation gifts AGLOW $40,000 Okoboji, IA. Brian Smith, incoming president of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers (AGLOW), stunned the membership of this regional writers organization at its annual Golden Glow Awards banquet here tonight when he presented a check for $40,000 to outgoing AGLOW president Mike Schoonveld. The check represented a grant from the Christel De Haan Family Foundation to AGLOW to help the organization meet its goals. The gift will be disbursed over a three-year period as follows: $10,000 in 2004, $20,000 in 2005, and the remaining $10,000 in 2006. The check bore the foundation's motto: "Make sure the world becomes a better place because of your involvement." In accepting the check, Schoonveld said that AGLOW is at a crossroads and that the de Haan Foundation gift came at a perfect time. "Some opportunities have presented themselves to make a quantum leap in our membership," Schoonveld said. "We're going to actively pursue those in the next year to recruit new members, get more people involved in the organization and continue the things that are working for us. We want to make the 'Learn it, do it' sessions bigger, better and stronger and enhance the already good relationships between individual and corporate members." AGLOW executive director Curt Hicken and board chairman Dan Donarski said the board would begin work immediately to prioritize AGLOW's needs so that the De Haan gift is put to its best use. 11:39:16 PM    comment []

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