Welcome!
The Pipestone Area Community Foundation is dedicated to promoting a greater quality of life for the Pipestone Area. We achieve this by helping to fund specific community projects or area organizations. These projects and organizations all enhance the community we consider home; making a better life for present and future generations.
The Foundation serves as a central source working to meet the various needs of the area. With your support of the Foundation, we will assure that contributions are put towards projects that meet our goals and mission. To learn more follow the link to Who We Are.
Pipestone Area Community
Please join the Pipestone area online community and voice your thoughts and ideas, share photos, join groups and link up with other members interested in the Pipestone Area. This is a great tool for class reunion planning. As our community grows you can stay in the loop as to the great things going on in Pipestone.
Log in
Not a Member?
We'd love to have you. Click here to Join the online community!
Newest members
Latest blog posts
Latest files
Latest groups
open group / 1 members
Make a Donation
Help support the Pipestone Area Community Foundation by making a donation today!
Downloads
Download the following documents to print out or email to friends.
Note: the links in this section require Adobe Reader.
Related Links
Visit friends of the Foundation by clicking the links below.
Latest News 
Love of the Land Rendezvous
The second annual Chuck Wagon Cook-Off was held June 24-25 at Fort Pipestone. This year we had four wagons cooking, one more than last year. The Pipestone Four Winds Association, organizers of the event, supplied all participants with the necessary ingredients. Each wagon cooked food from five categories: meat, beans, bread, potatoes, and dessert. All entries had to [...] Read more
Pipestone Pow Wow
The Pipekeepers held events in July, to share their Tribal culture with the area. The concert went well. Bruce Wiegle of Pipestone played his flute during the pow-wow intermission at Moore Park on Saturday, July 23, at 4 p.m. After the concert he stayed to sell CDs and talk to guests. The pow-wow went well [...] Read more
Cans to Cash in 38 Minutes
It took 38 minutes for 6 people to pack Ted and Joan Stout’s very long stock trailer with aluminum cans. The cans tat are dropped off at the crib come from local businesses and individual families. Several times a year the cans are loaded into Stout’s trailer, and marketed to an aluminum buyer. Funds are [...] Read more
PACF Announces Grant Recipients For 2010 and 2011
In an effort to keep contributors informed as to the use of the gifts the Foundation has received, the following list of grant recipients for 2010 and 2011 has been created. The Pipestone Area Community Foundation sincerely thanks all donors for their past support, and asks for continued financial assistance in helping us “promote a [...] Read more
Harmon Park Restoration Project
DECADES OF MEMORIES PLEASE HELP THEM CONTINUE The Pipestone Area Community Foundation has resolutely accepted the challenge of raising funds to restore some areas of Pipestone’s HARMON PARK that are in need of repair or improvement. HARMON PARK, created in the 1930’s, is Pipestone’s largest, most visable and busiest park. Since being built, there has [...] Read more
Pipestone Area Community Foundation Receives Anonymous Gift
–Donor Specifies Use– The Pipestone Area Community Foundation (PACF) recently received an anonymous donation of $5,000.00 with specifics from the contributor on how the gift should be used. In correspondence with the Foundation, the donor requested that the group purchase four automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and cabinets to store the units. Per instructions, three of [...] Read more