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Emily Prince • January 26, 2026

We want to hear from you

Share your story or event with Athens County Foundation.



We invite community partners to submit events and stories that highlight collaboration, connection, and belonging across Athens County. If your work brings people together or shows what becomes possible when we pull up a chair, we’d love to hear from you.

Newsletter Content Guidelines

For Community Partners Submitting Events and Stories


Athens County Foundation welcomes event listings and stories from community partners that reflect collaboration, participation, and belonging across Athens County. These guidelines help ensure submissions are clear, timely, and aligned with our shared values.


What We’re Looking For

We prioritize content that:

  • Highlights collaboration between organizations, residents, or sectors
  • Shows how people are invited to participate or feel a sense of belonging
  • Centers community impact rather than promotion
  • Reflects shared leadership and partnership


Think: Who pulled up a chair? Who was invited in? What changed because people worked together?

Submission Timing

  • Events: Submit at least 2–3 weeks before the event date
  • Stories: Submit at least 3 weeks before the intended newsletter issue


Early submissions increase the likelihood of inclusion.


Nonprofit Newsletters are sent bi-monthly January, March, May, July, September, and November

How to Submit

Fill out the google form: https://forms.gle/75isLgyhFF1KDoVm7

or

send submissions to:
info@athensfoundation.org


Include:

  • Subject line: Newsletter Submission – Event or Newsletter Submission – Story
  • Contact name and organization
  • Preferred publication date, if applicable

A Final Lens

Before submitting, ask:

  • Does this invite people in?
  • Does it reflect collaboration or shared effort?
  • Does it show belonging in action?


If yes, we want to hear it.



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By Emily Prince • September 1, 2026
Please join us in welcoming our new Director of Finance and Administration, Stacy Strauss. Stacy looks forward to using her skills to strengthen our community! She brings energy, creativity, and a thoughtful approach to her work, along with a genuine ability to bring people together around shared goals. Her experience spans financial management, fundraising and grant writing, program development, business strategy, and developing materials that tell a clear, compelling story.  Just as importantly, she enjoys helping others grow. She has experience leading and training teams, building collaborative cultures, developing recruitment strategies, and finding practical, creative solutions to complicated challenges. Whether working with colleagues, community partners, or other stakeholders, she builds relationships rooted in trust, communication, and a shared commitment to advancing good ideas.

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By Shayne Lopez • August 28, 2026
Athens County's greatest asset is its people. Every day, neighbors, organizations, and local leaders bring skill, creativity, and deep knowledge of this place to the work of building a stronger community. Our grantmaking invests in those strengths, because the best solutions are already growing here, led by the people who call Athens County home. Our grantmaking builds on the strengths already here by investing in the initiatives, people and organizations, relationships, skills, and ideas working to address longstanding challenges and pursue extraordinary opportunities. 

Pull up a Chair: August Newsletter

By Emily Prince • August 12, 2026
Collaboration and Partnership