Video: CREATE Foundation’s Annual Meeting

TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) – It was an opportunity for a well known non profit to celebrate 45 years of helping others make wise decisions regarding charitable giving.

CREATE Foundation held its annual meeting at the Bancorpsouth Conference Center.  Highlights included the announcement that the non profit manages assets totaling 115 million dollars.

Northeast Mississippi’s Community Foundation was started to help improve the quality of life for people in the region.

“CREATE tries to be a vehicle to help families, individuals and organizations help manage their charitable giving assets and really proud to be a partner with really 204 different groups that have endowment funds at CREATE,” said Mike Clayborne, president of CREATE.

The CREATE Foundation serves 17 counties and is one of the top three grant making foundations in Mississippi.