Alumni Awards - Fellowship of Service Award — Pella Community Foundation
The Fellowship of Service Award is given to Pella area organizations which have provided significant support to the college to enhance its educational mission. This year’s recipient is the Pella Community Foundation.
The foundation’s main purpose is to enhance the quality of life for all people living in Pella by transferring funds from those who donate to the foundation, into the non-profit organizations which can directly help others. Established in 1992 and remaining under the leadership of Ken Weller, former president of Central College, the foundation has made 262 grants to 61 different organizations totaling $472,000 in the past 16 years, including over $20,000 worth of support for Central. Weller will retire from the foundation this year and be succeeded by Jim Brandl ’65, president elect of PCF.
The Pella Community Foundation supported Central College initiatives including Fiesta Mexicana, a program at Central that placed Latino performers into the Pella schools; the library; Shakespeare Festival; Carlson-Kuyper Field Station; handbell workshop, art department improvements and an athletic department video camera.
