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Home About Us B2B Club Breaking News Contact Donate Events / Programs Feedback Ideas Incubator Industry Clusters Links / Resources Progress Funds Progress Teams Public Art / Murals Publications		Rome Progress Fund Rome Community Fund Committee invites you to take advantage of an opportunity to put your name in stone! We are selling 4”x8” and 8”x8” bricks that can be engraved with your personalization and placed in Veteran’s Memorial Park in the Rome Alpine Village. What do you want on your brick? The Rome Community Fund is all about improving our community now and for the future, and committee members are working hard at raising money that will be invested in Rome forever. Please consider a donation to this permanent endowment fund. The Fund supports Rome community improvement projects in the form of grants to local organizations and groups. Committee Members Robert Ebben* Sharon McCray John Prey Jane Spencer *Committee Chair Grants Given $937 Taste of Rome 2005 event $325 Rome Nature and Wildlife Days $500 "Rome is More" $209 to support "Taste of the Vine" fundraising event for the Lester Library of Rome expansion project $620 to support Taste of Rome 2006, to support a tent and band $250 to support Tourism Kiosk $300 Christmas in Rome '06 $400 to support "Library on the Move" fundraising fitness event for the Lester Library of Rome expansion project $540 to support Taste of Rome 2007 "Celebrating Our 150th Birthday", including vendors, crafts, food, music, parade and the premiere of the Rome History Book $300 to support start-up of a 'Community Coffee Klatch' to establish a link to the community through socialization $500 to support Christmas in Rome 2007 to bring the community together for a festive Christmas event, with a special appearance by Santa in his sleigh $540 to support reusable outdoor signs for pre-event promotion of "Library on the Move" Event $800 to support Taste of Rome 2008, to support Musical Entertainment $500 to support a banner at Alpine Village Park entrance to promote the Rome Farmers Market $600 to support "Rome Goes Green" Pilot Event in July, 2008, providing residents the opportunity to give away their usable unwanted items to neighbors, keeping unwanted items out of the landfill and save recycling costs Support your local community fund today! You may donate online, mail a check to CFSWC, or contact one of your Progress Fund committee members above. Do you have a community improvement project that you would like funded? Click here to view Grant Guidelines and application form.
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