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