Pay It Forward: Thank You, Anonymous

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. When I moved to Homer as a young adult, my new neighbor, Walter Johnson, asked me a memorable … Read More

Homer Nonprofits Provide Essential Services not provided by Municipalities

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. I moved to Homer from Arizona eleven years ago. I was just out of college and living on … Read More

Homer Trails Alliance – Connecting Community Through Trails

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. As we have all witnessed these past few years, our little hamlet by the sea is experiencing some … Read More

A trail built by and for a community

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. Our floatplane motored past peaks protruding through pillows of cloud. I was sure we’d get turned back to … Read More

Storyknife provides more than writing retreat

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. There’s a reason artists, writers, and musicians joke that their parents wanted them to be doctors. Or lawyers. … Read More

Reflections on the Russia I Know

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. By Ken Taylor A quote from a ten-year-old boy I heard on the radio some time ago remains … Read More

Home is Where the Heart Is

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. Recently, I noticed a few friends joyfully posted on the anniversary of their arrival in Homer. And just … Read More

Make someone happy. Make just one someone happy.

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. “Make someone happy. Make just one someone happy. And then you’ll be happy, too.”  Those are the lyrics … Read More

Philanthropy and Belonging in the time of COVID

The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. In the era of COVID, we have all faced many changes and challenges that have confronted what it … Read More

Instilling Volunteerism in the next Generation

By Terri Spigelmyer The following is an article in the Pay It Forward column published in the Homer News. This column is sponsored by the Homer Foundation, a community foundation promoting local philanthropy since 1991. To learn more please visit us @ www.homerfoundation.org and like us on Facebook. Recently in preparing to move from my office of 21 years, I was tasked with … Read More