Welcome To Our Community Foundation

The Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley is a non-profit philanthropic corporation that administers individual charitable funds and distributes grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of the Greater Aurora Area, the TriCities and Kendall County Illinois.

New Fund

Helen & Robert Mitchler

 

The Senator Robert W. & Helen Drew Mitchler Scholarship Endowment Fund provides scholarships to students entering the field of nursing.

Robert and Helen Mitchler are both natives of Aurora and graduates of East Aurora High School. Mr. Mitchler graduated from Aurora College and Mrs. Mitchler from the Copley Hospital School of Nursing.

Robert Mitchler was employed with the CB&Q Railroad and Northern Illinois Gas Company. He is a United States Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate and appointed to serve with the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.

Mrs. Mitchler's career in nursing was with Copley Memorial Hospital and the Dreyer Medical Clinic.

Both have been active in community service – Robert Mitchler serving with numerous military and veteran organizations and Helen Mitchler with social, political and medical support units. Mrs. Mitchler's active work with the National Society Daughters of The American Revolution earned her election as National Vice President General.

Since 1953 they have lived in rural Oswego in Kendall County.

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For more information regarding newly created  funds within the Community Foundation, please see our 2007 Fall/Winter Memorandum.

 

Securing Your Community's Future

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The Power of Giving Together

Many of us are unaware of our potential to be philan-thropists.  With effective estate planning, valuable resources that would be lost to taxation will remain to serve the future of our heirs and our local communities.

New research commissioned by the Alliance of Illinois Community Foundations and the Donors Forum projects an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the World War II generation to the baby boomers and then from the baby boomers to the next generation.

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A Golden Opportunity

Transfer of Wealth

(graph of 50 year projections)

In 50 years, $1.35 trillion is expected to pass from one generation to the next in Illinois. In just 10 years, $182.3 billion will have transferred.

National research projects a $53 trillion transfer of wealth across the United States. But while the average transfer nationwide will peak after 50 years, wealth transfer in many Illinois counties will crest in twenty to thirty years. In Kane and Kendall Counties, the greatest wealth transfer will likely happen between the years of 2025 and 2035.

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Latest Research

Office Hours

Monday thru Friday

8:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

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Office Closed

Monday, May 26, 2008

Memorial Day

 

Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

 111 West Downer Place ● Suite 312

 Aurora, Illinois 60506

 (630) 896-7800

info@CommunityFoundationFRV.org