Blue Mountain Community Foundation creates COVID-19 response fund

WALLA WALLA—The Blue Mountain Community Foundation has created a COVID-19 Response Fund and is organizing an advisory committee so that charitable resources can be directed to nonprofit organizations assisting people affected by the COVID-19 virus pandemic in the Walla Walla Valley. Other local philanthropies are creating funds either on their own, or in partnership with BMCF. The Sherwood Trust, a privately held Trust in Walla Walla, Wash., made a $10,000 grant to BMCF’s fund, and an anonymous donor gave $5000 to the Fund in addition to the $100,000 that the Community Foundation has set aside...