Pender Community Hospital District (PCHD) has announced the establishment of a new endowment for Pender Community Health Care Foundation.
This endowment was created in December 2023 through a partnership with Nebraska Community Foundation, a statewide nonprofit organization that serves more than 265 Greater Nebraska communities across the state.
“I’m excited to announce this new endowment and to thank Nebraska Community Foundation for its partnership,” said Shane Schuster, Chief Operating Officer at PCHD. “With this endowment now in place, Pender Community Health Care Foundation will be able to scale new heights while facilitating critical projects, building upon the work it has already accomplished and finding new ways to give back.”
The new endowment establishes Pender Community Health Care Foundation as a true philanthropic entity with the ability to solicit charitable giving, such as through gifts of grain, stock/IRA or estate planning.
There is also a newly established employee-payroll deduction option, which allows employees to donate a small portion of each paycheck to the endowment.
The foundation was created in 1991 to help raise funds for critical PCHD initiatives and enable individuals, businesses, groups and other organizations to make charitable donations that benefit PCHD.
“I’m so grateful for our partnership with Nebraska Community Foundation.” Schuster said. “With this new endowment, we’ll be able to do more, finding new ways of giving back to PCHD and ensuring we can be the premier healthcare provider in our area.”
Since its founding, the Pender Community Health Care Foundation has played a key role in the coordination of new facilities for the Emerson Medical Clinic & Apothecary in 2019; the construction of the Pender Medical Clinic & Apothecary Shop in 2018; and the PCHD expansion project that created additional space for more physicians and physician assistants in 2001.
Additionally, in 1996 and 1997, the foundation facilitated the capital campaign for the construction of an Outpatient Specialty Clinic, raising more than $1.1 million in pledges that enabled PCHD to complete this project.
To learn more about Pender Community Health Care Foundation, visit pchne.org/about-us/healthcare-foundation-auxiliary.
