Combating Childhood Obesity

After a 30-year rise, the percentage of obese and overweight elementary school children in Mississippi is going down, according to Jill Morris, chair of the DeSoto County Community Health Council, … Continued

The Big Challenge

The Maddox Foundation has offered a dollar-for-dollar $9 million challenge grant to the Community Foundation, and our deadline to meet this challenge is December 31, 2013. Already 70% of the … Continued

The Box Project

Tim and Samone Holston grew up on a dirt road in the “suburbs” of Itta Bena, fortunate to have a Box Project sponsor family from Massachusetts. When he was an … Continued

Lake Cormorant Student Travels to United Nations

Lake Cormorant student Eli Hickerson had a chance to try out his dream of speechwriting when he took the podium of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations this spring. … Continued

Do You Know How An Endowment Works?

Hernando Rotary Club contributed $51,577 to create a scholarship endowment in July 2005. Seven years later, it has given scholarships to deserving young people that total $10,000. How much is … Continued