The Spy is sure that more than a few Spy readers blinked their eyes the other day when they read the headline that the Mid-Shore Community Foundation (MSCF) had committed almost $4 million to support the building of the new UM Shore Regional Health hospital project. It was inevitable that the region’s largest community foundation would make a meaningful donation to this much-needed facility, but the Spy wanted to know how the MSCF could make such a significant commitment when historically their largest “stretch” grants were in the very low six figures.
Of course, we turned to Buck Duncan, president of MSCF, to answer that question, and it proved to be a lot more complicated than simply writing a check. The more one understands how Buck and his board assembled this commitment, the more one can appreciate the power and value of a community foundation, as well as the hundreds of its donors, who made such a meaningful gift possible.
And only Buck can make all of this such a good story to tell.
This video is approximately seven minutes in length. For more information about the Mid-Shore Community Foundation, please go here.
Steve Lingeman says
I recently spent 4 days in the existing facility. The region NEEDS a new one.
The old facility has been patched together and refurbished as much as possible. The hospitals technology is stretched thin and the software will function much better in a newly designed and constructed building.
The current design is only half of the rooms needed to serve this region. Pressure needs to be put on the powers that be to double the number of rooms.
Buck and his board came through with a massive covid relief effort. With some help… he can do it again… Thanks Buck!