Idyllwild Community Fund (ICF) announces its Advisory Board elected for 2024.

This working group includes several new and returning members recruited throughout 2023, representing a healthy cross-section of the Idyllwild community.

Officers are President Nancy Beddingfield (Idyllwild Library, volunteer tutor); Vice President Annie Weaver (Idyllwild Help Center board, Idyllwild resident 40-plus year; Secretary Molly Coyner Cozens (PEO International, former president Idyllwild Chapter); Treasurer Summer Brown (former Idyllwild business owner, Idyllwild Actor’s Theatre board); Youth Grantmakers Chair Jon Zorn (educator, business owner); Events Chair Chris Perrault (founder/producer “Good Morning Idyllwild”; Idyllwild Area Historical Society board, Idyllwild Library volunteer); and Social Media Chair Tanya Jordening (founder, “English Coach – 3Ts,” online ESL coaching).

Members at-large are Alex Cameron (Soroptimist of the Year; Idyllwild Community Center avid booster); Heather Companiott (retired director Idyllwild Arts Adult Arts Center and Native American Arts Program); Shelly Downes (founder/owner Miss Sunshine’s General Mercantile and Sunshine Shipping; Carol Mendoza, (Idyllwild Quilt Guild, Idyllwild Library volunteer); Shannon Houlihan Ng (Riverside County Library System deputy director, former Idyllwild Branch Librarian, former ICF president, Idyllwild Rotary); and Shannah Zorn (educator, immediate past ICF vice president, Local Color performer).

ICF is an affiliate of the Inland Empire Community Foundation. Established in the late 1990s by anonymous donors, ICF is a permanent legacy to benefit the Idyllwild community.

As of 2024, ICF has awarded more than $350,000 to Idyllwild’s nonprofit organizations. Continued support of the Idyllwild Community Fund can be made by check at Idyllwild Community Fund, POB 761, Idyllwild, CA. 92549 or online at www.iegives.org/idyllwild-community-fund/.

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