Local Business
By Frances Hasty
I
t has an impressive success story that any business would be proud to claim. However, the Cumberland Community Foundation’s true success lies not just in dollars and cents
but in the number of people and causes that it has helped, because CCF is in the business of philanthropy. Since it was established in 1980
with a single gift of a half-million dollars, beneficiaries have included children and senior citizens, the arts and museums, the botanical garden and the environment, the CARE Clinic and Fayetteville Urban Ministry, the homeless and the hungry, and an array of other worthwhile causes in Fayetteville and Cumberland County. The foundation began through the
vision and generosity of the late Dr. Lucile Hutaff. A Fayetteville native, she worked as a professor at Bowman Gray Medical School in Winston-Salem. There, she observed the work of the Winston-Salem Foundation, the first in the state, and how it had benefited that community.
Right | Ray Manning gives Jasmin Ortiz a boost at the Boys and Girls Club on Cumberland Road, one of the many organizations supported by the Cumberland Community Foundation. Manning serves on the foundation’s board of directors.
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