Exeter Area Community Foundation Fund

07/08/2025

Kick off Exeter Days Friday, July 25 with an outdoor screening of Toy Story!

⌚️9 pm (or at dark); bring your own seating
📍S side of Live Well Massage Therapy
🍿Popcorn and water provided courtesy of the Exeter Area Community Foundation Fund.

04/17/2025

The Exeter Area Community Foundation fund was featured in the Nebraska Community Foundation spring newsletter, highlighting the annual gift of mailboxes that are given to our graduating seniors each year! The mailboxes serve as a physical reminder that our town will always have a place for them and to invite them to eventually “come home” to become vital members of our community and chose Exeter as a place to plant their roots. Young people are vital to the future success of our town!

Just a couple of generations ago, luggage was a common graduation gift for high school seniors in Greater Nebraska. The implied message: congratulations, you made it; now get out of this town and find somewhere to actually build a life. It was an invitation of sorts. An invitation to leave. Times ha...

12/13/2023

📖📖📖 EACFF recently granted the Exeter Public Library $500 to cover the cost of its annual Nebraska OverDrive subscription! This web-based service is available to all library patrons and provides 24/7 access to a collection of more than 35,000 ebooks, 21,000 audiobooks and 4,000 magazines! 📖📖📖

In the first year of the Exeter Public Library’s use of OverDrive, more than 700 items were checked out by patrons!

Since 2011, EACFF has granted more than $80,000 to local projects and programs that enhance the quality of life in our community. These grants are made possible through gifts to Exeter’s unrestricted endowment—a gift to the future of our community! Contributions to the endowment are invested and continue to increase. The principal—and your gift—remains intact and grows forever. It is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Message us to find out how you can help EACFF address emerging needs and future opportunities in our community for generations to come!

Exeter Public Library

08/11/2023

University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Samuel Otte spent his summer as the Hometown Intern for the Exeter Area Community Foundation Fund. Samuel says that he was interested this internship because he wants "To pursue a career that builds places for people to live, work, and grow for myself and generations after me." Learn more about Samuel here: https://www.nebcommfound.org/news/hometown-intern-samuel-otte/

08/01/2023

Sam is our hometown intern this summer. This is a great feature piece!

For the fifth consecutive year, Nebraska Community Foundation Hometown Interns have served 15 different Nebraska communities. They say the experience has reinforced a desire to return home.

07/27/2023

Kick off Exeter Days tomorrow night with dinner and a movie!

🍿The movie will begin around 9:30 p.m.🍿 Bring your own seating.

07/26/2023

🏀 🏀 🏀 The basketball court at Edgar Rec got a facelift thanks to a $2,100 grant from EACFF for three new hoops! 🏀 🏀 🏀

Huge thanks to everyone who donated their time and equipment to get them assembled and installed!

Since 2011, EACFF has granted more than $80,000 to local projects and programs that enhance the quality of life in our community. These grants are made possible through gifts to Exeter’s unrestricted endowment—a gift to the future of our community! Contributions to the endowment are invested and continue to increase. The principal—and your gift—remains intact and grows forever. It is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Message us to find out how you can help EACFF address emerging needs and future opportunities in our community for generations to come!

07/21/2023

Lots of activity at the Exeter ballfield this morning—look at the progress on the new batting cages! The project is being funded by the Village of Exeter and an $8,000 grant from the Exeter Area Community Foundation Fund.

Many thanks to the volunteers who are donating their time to the project!

Since granting began in 2011, EACFF has granted more than $80,000 to community organizations! EACFF's endowment account ensures that funds are available to support projects that foster a stronger community. Message us to find out how you can help!

06/06/2023

We are so excited to welcome Sam Otte as our Hometown Intern for the summer!

For the fifth consecutive year, Nebraska Community Foundation (NCF) is proud to announce a new class of Hometown Interns who will continue the program’s now firmly established success. This summer’s group of interns includes 21 college students serving NCF affiliated funds in 15 different Nebras...

02/27/2023

Mark your calendars for March 28!

11/21/2022

The first annual EACFF Trivia Night is in the books-thanks to all who attended!

Congratulations to the winning team Unprofessional Development! They will recieve coveted "EACFF Trivia Night Champions" t-shirts and have their team name engraved on the EACFF Trivia Night plaque, which will be displayed in the Exeter Legion!

Special thanks to the following individuals and businesses for their roles in making the event a success:
Jordan & Jenn Marr
Generations Bank
Generations Insurance Group
Twisted Wrench
Sweetwater Bar & Grill
Bob & Sharon Mueller
Paul & Karla Sheffield
Erdkamp Motors
Horizontal Boring & Tunneling

Additional thanks to past grant recipients who shared about projects that have been funded through EACFF and Kara Asmus, Nebraska Community Foundation, who shared about the impacts of giving in the community!