Articles by Beth Warnick
Tax Savings Tip: Donate Your IRA Withdrawals to Friends of the Cheat
Donating part of your required withdrawals from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to a charity like Friends of the Cheat can help you save on taxes. This strategy is called a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD). Here’s how it works: When you turn 70½ years old, you must start taking money out of your IRA each year, called Required Minimum Distributions […]
Read MoreNew Funding and Partnerships Blossom for FOC Work on Public Lands
by Madison Ball, Conservation Program Director “I love it when a plan comes together.” This A Team reference aptly describes the series of events that has led to new funding, partnerships, and work for Friends of the Cheat on public lands in our headwaters. With the absorption of the former Shavers Fork Coalition, our organization began looking to our headwaters […]
Read MoreBuilding Bridges: Friends of the Cheat Completes First Aquatic Organism Passage Project
by Madison Ball, Conservation Program Director “Out of the AMD and into the AOP” is our latest phrase here at FOC. While acid mine drainage (AMD) remediation will always be at the heart of our restoration efforts, FOC has been expanding our work to include new types of restoration. Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) is a restoration strategy that improves the […]
Read MorePlant Something.
by Sera Janson Zegre I was surprisingly skeptical at first. Even with my fresh-out-of-grad school lens of possibility, I remember reading through a grant application from Friends of the Cheat (FOC) with doubt. FOC saw a future for an abandoned industrial site along the Cheat River; they envisioned a beautiful educational access point for river and trail recreation for future […]
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