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Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke
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Tallying up the final numbers for 2020, Brandon Area Community Foundation executive director Laura Kempthorne said the end result was shocking.
The foundation granted a record-breaking $1,052,065 last year, marking the first time in their 55-year history they’ve broken $1 million. It wasn’t something we planned out to do, at all, Kempthorne said quite the contrary.
When the pandemic hit early last year, uncertainty clouded whatever plans they might have otherwise had for the year.
Looking back, she said the COVID-19 pandemic and the hardships it brought many people might have actually contributed to the foundation’s success.