Board Leadership, Family Involvement: The Goddard-Coates Family Fund

Hilary and Dean Coates knew of the Guelph Community Foundation before most of us did. Hilary was an accountant early in her career when a mentor wisely invited her to join the Board in the founding days of the foundation. Hilary became the first Treasurer of the Foundation and returned to the Board in 2021.

What inspired Dean and Hilary to set up this endowed fund?

In their own words:
We’ve raised our family here and we all love Guelph. Goddard was the last name of Hilary’s parents and now their granddaughters are part of this fund. We as a family believe in healthy community and the endowment allows us to pool our funds with gifts from other donors, watch it grow and create continued impact.

This fund contributes directly to the operations of The Guelph Community Foundation. This Foundation supports our entire community and so when it is strong, the rest of our community will be stronger. It just makes sense.

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You can support the Guelph Community Foundation operations by contributing to the Goddard-Coates Family Fund;

  1. By donating via e-transfer to [email protected]
    Please be sure to write in the memo line that your gift is to go to the Goddard-Coates Family Fund
  2. By donating via credit card at Operations – Guelph Community Foundation CanadaHelps Page. Please consider clicking the option to cover the credit card fees.

The Guelph Community Foundation assists many organizations in our community and this is a wonderful opportunity to support the work of the Foundation itself.

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