FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Foothills Community Partnership Fund Established in Collaboration with the Community Foundation of Calhoun County ANNISTON, Ala., July 9, 2008 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The Foothills Community Partnership (FCP) officially presented a charitable contribution of $500,000 to the Community Foundation of Calhoun County at a celebration this afternoon. *(PHOTO Link 72dpi: Send2Press.com/mediaboom/08-0709-Foothills_72dpi.jpg) *(Photo Caption: Eula Tatman of the Community Foundation of Calhoun County, Alabama receives $500,000 gift from Tom Potts, Jr. of the Foothills Community Partnership to establish new endowment fund.) The gift establishes the Foothills Community Partnership Fund, which will be administered and guided by the Community Foundation of Calhoun County to address critical human-care needs in the greater community. Impact grants from the Fund will be made locally; specifically for education, community and economic development, protection of the environment, safety, and domestic violence prevention. "This gift is of enormous importance to our community," said Wayne Carmello-Harper, president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Calhoun County. "There are so many community issues that this gift will help the Foundation to address, ranging from early learning to properly preparing children for school to encouraging the use of car seat belts and child safety seats. Career tech opportunities for our high school students are also incredibly important in order to make real employment opportunities available to them." The Foothills Community Partnership is nearing completion of the lead investigation and cleanup program which it has facilitated during the past two years. The FCP has completed sampling of 4,125 residential properties in Anniston, Oxford and Hobson City and has completed cleanup of 510 residential properties which were deemed to be in need of remediation. "We owe the success of this effort to the continual support we have received from members of our community," said Tom Potts, Foothills Community Partnership spokesperson. "The Foothills Community Partnership is pleased to provide this gift to the community as a way of saying 'Thank you' as we come to the conclusion of the residential soil cleanup program. Our vision in making this substantial gift is to provide a lasting benefit to the community and to underscore our organization's tradition of community involvement," said Potts. "This gift and others like it allow the Community Foundation to perform the real work that needs to be done for the betterment of our community. We are very appreciative of this gift from the Foothills Community Partnership," said Carmello-Harper. The FCP is comprised of the companies responsible for the residential lead cleanup program in Anniston. All trademarks acknowledged. Send2Press(R) is the originating wire service for this story. NEWS SOURCE: Foothills Community Partnership # # # //RELEASE END// MEDIA ONLY CONTACT(S): [ contact info not for publication online or in print ] Tom Potts of Potts Marketing Group for Foothills Community Partnership +1-256-237-7788 x13 tom @ pottsmarketing.com /Note to editors: 300dpi 4x5 print-resolution image download (Photoshop RGB JPEG): http://send2press.com/photobay/08-0709-Foothills_300dpi.jpg Caption for photo: Eula Tatman of the Community Foundation of Calhoun County, Alabama receives $500,000 gift from Tom Potts, Jr. of the Foothills Community Partnership to establish new endowment fund. ......... Plain Text Copy, and Story Permalink: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/2008-07-0709-002P.txt Release PDF: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/news_2008-07-0709-002P.pdf Get our full-text news via RSS: http://www.Send2Press.com/RSS2/rss.xml ......... Text provided by news source (and/or the source's authorized agency), who is solely responsible for accuracy and legality of content transmitted. ......... This news story from Send2Press Newswire may be redistributed and re-posted in part or in whole by members of the media. Copr. (c) Send2Press, a unit of Neotrope(R). For news aggregation sites, blogs, and bureaus, you must retain Send2Press as the original wire service source. You may capture and self-host images linked to in above release, but do NOT stream from our server. ......... The original version of this release was issued on behalf of the above organization (the "news source"), by Send2Press(R) Newswire, a unit of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com. ......... July 2008 Press Release / S-3S AL-MS-GA HR-PH / IND: NP COMUNI LOCAL / PRT / Agency / REF: Georgia Newswire(TM) /