MORGANTOWN — Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia (YCF) closed out National Community Foundation Week on Tuesday evening with a celebration of more than $300,000 in grants awarded to nonprofits and educators across the region.

The event, held at the Hotel Morgan and sponsored by PNC Bank, drew representatives from 76 organizations including 37 schools and various nonprofits from Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Preston and Taylor counties. In all, YCF presented 123 individual grant awards during the ceremony.

“It is National Community Foundation Week, and today is the last day of that celebration,” YCF President Patty Showers-Ryan said. “We thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to celebrate our competitive grant-making awards.”

The annual gathering marks one of th

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