Charity Incubator Opening
New Co-Work Space for Local Businesses and Professionals Available Downtown
The Lloyd and Charlotte Hoover Charity Incubator: Recognizing the Potential to Do [More] Good
The Federated Charities Corporation (Federated Charities; federatedcharities.org) has invested in offering a collaborative work space – the Lloyd and Charlotte Hoover Charity Incubator (Hoover Incubator) – to the professionals, entrepreneurs, residents and philanthropic minds of Frederick County. 2017 begins a new era for Federated Charities with the soft opening launch of the Hoover Incubator in January and its formal ribbon cutting scheduled for February 9.
Featuring competitive, below-market rates, free Wi-Fi, and a creative and welcoming atmosphere, the Hoover Incubator provides emerging businesses and organizations a professional space to launch and cultivate their great new ideas. The Hoover Incubator was designed as an environment for collaboration, inspired by Terry Tempest who said, “Imaginations shared create collaboration, and collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.”
The primary mission of the Hoover Incubator is to use the assets of Federated Charities to support the efforts of a network of developing programs that support the well-being of residents of Frederick County and provide services to needy individuals and families. The Hoover Incubator is intended to facilitate innovative and collaborative partnerships in shared space for start-up charitable organizations. Saving on overhead costs affords nonprofits more resources to use for services that directly impact individuals and local communities.
“The Hoover Incubator is an innovation that we’re all very excited to offer to our community,” said Susan Shelton, Federated Charities Board President. “It’s a first for Frederick and we are proud to help others be agents of positive social change in offering this co-work office space,” she added. The Hoover Incubator brings added value to partner programs and clients by enabling tenants to leverage unique expertise, exchange ideas and maximize resources. Federated Charities provides a visible space in the heart of downtown Frederick where organizations and the community can support these programs and their clients.
About Federated Charities
The mission of Federated Charities for more than 100 years has been to provide compassionate community services in Frederick and offer education and resources which support non-profits in a collaborative environment so they can better serve their local clients. Our building at 22 South Market Street was donated as a generous bequest in the mid-1930s from the estate of Miss Margaret Williams whose family owned it as a private home. In turn, the organization has provided a “home” to such diverse charitable organizations as the Red Cross, The Frederick Community Foundation, United Way and The Downtown Frederick Partnership. We have also operated a kindergarten, distributed food and clothing to the needy and addressed medical needs in the community.
Elin Ross is the Executive Director or The Federated Charities Corporation of Frederick. For more information about this program, call 301-662- 1561, or email: eross@federatedcharities.org
