Foothills Forum

2. In 2024, Foothills Forum celebrated its 10th anniversary with a special anniversary logo. Foothills commissioned a seven-minute, 10-year anniversary video overviewing Foothills' history and how we contribute to the community. Foothills reporters and editors updated and re-worked in-depth feature articles, graphics and photos produced over the past two years about each of Rappahannock County's villages and made them into a single keepsake magazine publication. Our annual meeting celebrating our anniversary had record attendance, roughly double the number from the previous year. We showed our anniversary video and gave out the Villages publication to all who attended and later mailed out copies of the Villages publication to all of our donors.

Continued to expand a countywide "Storytelling Contest". As in past years, a record number of local high school and middle school students (from public and private schools) are expected to submit entries (written, digital, musical, artistic, etc.) telling stories about themselves and their community.

At the end of the year, Foothills Forum hired its first Development and Communications Coordinator, a part-time contractor position that will focus on community engagement and fundraising.