This donor-designated fund was established in 1995 to provide assistance in defraying a portion of Beckley Area Foundation’s expenses. Interested individuals, families, and businesses became founding members, and their generous gifts were matched by the Dr. Thomas Walker Memorial Health Foundation. The fund name honors the first President of the Foundation, James. W. Word, Jr., and its first Executive Director, Charles K. Connor, Jr. The Walker Foundation matched all gifts of $1,000 to $15,000 made to this fund between its establishment and December 1997.
