We are delighted that the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has opened an Organizational Endowment Fund at MSCF. CBMM is one of the most respected nonprofits on the Shore with nearly 6,000 members, 50,000 annual visitors, and approximately 250 volunteers.
CBMM is also going to take advantage of our flexible CGA program whereby MSCF will host CGA contracts designating CBMM as the beneficiary. This service is available to any nonprofit with an organizational endowment at MSCF.
I am grateful to President Langley Shook and board chair Joe Peters for their commitment to the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. We are confident that this new partnership will grow philanthropic support for CBMM and for the Mid-Shore community as a whole.
If you are not familiar with the work of CBMM, visit them on the web at www.cbmm.org , check out the Spring 2011 edition of The Chesapeake Log, and plan to visit the Museum to see a major retrospective exhibition highlighting the work of famed 19th -century marine artist James Edward Buttersworth which opens on Saturday, April 16, 2011.
Stuart
