Mancini Family Fund
Jim and Liz Mancini established the Mancini Family Fund at the Guilford
Foundation in 2016 to ensure that resources will always be available to help those
in our community with basic needs. The fund is unrestricted, meaning it can be
used to address any community issue, but the Mancinis have expressed
preference for organizations that support our neighbors who are struggling. “Our
wishes are that grants from our fund go toward basic needs, such as families with
disability or someone having trouble paying the rent,” says Jim Mancini, who
served as the Chair of the Board of Directors from 2015 to 2017.
The Mancini Fund was started as an “Acorn Fund,” a Foundation initiative that
allows interested donors five years to reach the $10,000 minimum required for
establishing a permanent endowment fund. It will continue to grow with
donations made by the Mancini family and any other members of the community
who wish to support it.
As a Guilford native, Mancini feels fortunate to have grown up in a town where
people take care of each other. “I think it’s nice that the community will get
together to help one another,” he said. “What I like about the fund is that it’ll
continue to be perpetual, even when we’re gone, helping to make Guilford a
better place to live.”