Supporting the MCF is Supporting Our Community

In the years since MCF was created, it has offered funds as seed money or challenge grants for specific projects that would benefit large numbers of McLean residents, such as improving McLean's appearance and preserving its history.

MCF challenge grants have helped launch efforts to add a balcony to the Community Center's theatre and to equip a kitchen and to build a community hall so that the old one could house the McLean Project for the Arts. The historic church at Pleasant Grove and the farmhouse and environmental living center at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm were rebuilt with the help of MCF grants. McLean music groups, local PTAs, Little League and the Teen Center have also been grantees. Small buses or vans have been purchased for the Community Center, a nursing home, a day care center for underprivileged children and SHARE, Inc. MCF has helped the McLean Volunteer Fire Department buy new equipment. The final piece in the long-held MCA vision of a community complex is in place thanks to MCF -- a bandstand in McLean Central Park.

MCF has helped to fund projects of the McLean Land Conservancy, specifically aimed at the preservation of land and open space in the McLean community. MCF gave a grant for a mobile computer lab for the students at the Franklin Sherman School. We have helped to fund Ethics Days at Langley High School and earmarked a two-year, $50,000 contribution to the Clemyjontri Park project, where children with and without disabilities can play with and learn from each other.

The Foundation is looking for new avenues and opportunities to reach out to the community for benefactors and have become more aggressive in soliciting funding proposals from all non profit sectors of McLean. MCF will be looking to the expansive corporate world of the Greater McLean area to provide annual contributions to our community causes.

In short, your contributions to the McLean Citizens Foundation will be put to use right here in your community … helping your neighbors, the beauty of our area, and serving worthy causes that make McLean a wonderful place to live, work and raise families. We hope you'll consider becoming a patron of MCF.

How to Give to MCF

The McLean Citizens Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization, making contributions tax deductible to the maximum extent allowed by law. Individual members of the community or businesses can help to support the important work of the McLean Citizens Foundation in the following ways:

• Become an annual contributor to MCF
• Become a Business Benefactor to MCF. Your corporate contribution will help McLean in so many ways!
• Donate securities, real estate, memorial contributions or special bequests.
• Name the McLean Citizens Foundation as owner or beneficiary of a life insurance policy.
• Remember the Foundation in your will with the phrase "I give and bequeath an amount equal to (the amount in words) to the McLean Citizens Foundation".

For more information about supporting the McLean Citizens Foundation, you may contact us in writing at MCF, P.O. Box 75, McLean, VA. 22101 or email Beth Chung at bethchung@cs.com