Liberty Fellowship Announces Liberty Prize Winner

Liberty Fellowship, the statewide leadership program that seeks to inspire values-based leadership among young South Carolina leaders, today announced that Fred F. “Trip” DuBard, III, a member of Liberty Fellowship’s inaugural Class of 2006, has won the first annual Liberty Prize, $50,000 is to be used to sustain and expand the winning Fellow’s community leadership project.

DuBard initiated and led local efforts to create the Eastern Carolina Community Foundation (ECCF) to fill local needs in Chesterfield, Marlboro, Marion, Dillon, Florence, Darlington and Williamsburg counties, South Carolina’s largest area previously not served by a community foundation. Ultimately ECCF will be a collection of charitable gifts and bequests that help Pee Dee citizens help each other by offering donors enormous flexibility and encouraging philanthropy.

DuBard commented, “We don’t need a fish, or be taught how to fish. We need help building a fishing pole so that we can help ourselves. This vote validates the importance of the Eastern Carolina Community Foundation not just to our area, but to the state as a whole. We’ll use the prize to make it easier for neighbors to help neighbors in the Pee Dee.”

Liberty Fellowship is a partnership of Hayne Hipp, The Aspen Institute and Wofford College. For more information, please visit www.libertyfellowshipsc.org.

Nominations for the fifth class, Class of 2010, will be taken until March 31st.