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When: 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
Where: Middletown Community Foundation’s new offices, 300 N. Main St., Suite 300.
MIDDLETOWN — Now that T. Duane Gordon and his staff are settled in their new building, he wants to show off the office.
Gordon, executive director of the Middletown Community Foundation, is inviting the public to the agency’s ribbon-cutting and open house.
The event begins at 4 p.m. Thursday with the ribbon-cutting scheduled at 4:15 p.m. The “come and go” open house will run until 7 p.m. with tours of the facility and hors d’oeuvres offered.
The Middletown Community Foundation, which formerly operated out of the Manchester Inn, is located at 300 N. Main St., Suite 300.
Gordon said the theme of the event is “You Hold the Key to Success.”
He said the event highlights that the Community Foundation relies upon the support of area donors to continue its impact on the Middletown area.
“We want people to see where we do what we do,” he said.
The foundation raises money, awards grants for the betterment of the community, provides educational scholarships, administers the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and acts as a convener to bring stakeholders together to tackle problems facing the Middletown community, he said.
He said “every life in the Middletown area is touched daily” by the results of the foundation’s work.
After 11 years in the Manchester, the Community Foundation doubled its office space in late September with a move into the former Frost Brown Todd law firm office space on the second floor above First Financial Bank’s Main Street branch and the United Way of Greater Cincinnati – Middletown Area’s offices.
The foundation was created in 1976 as a component of the Middletown United Way, separating into an independent organization in 1986.
It was housed in leased space in the then-United Way building until moving to the former Chamber of Commerce offices at the Manchester in 2000.
Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2842 or rmccrabb@coxohio.com.
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