LUMBERTON — The Robeson County Community Foundation held a reception celebrating its 20th anniversary on Monday.

According to RCCF Vice President Blake Tyner, the foundation is one of the county’s “best kept secrets.”

“Nobody knows who we are,” Tyner said, “but we are working on that this year.”

Despite the foundation’s lack of notoriety, its impact on the community is not insignificant. According to the North Carolina Community Foundation, which the RCCF operates under, the RCCF distributed $17,570 in grants to 12 different organizations.

One such grant was a $1,540 award to the Museum of Southeast American Indian for its “Life by the River” project, which focused on the sacred waters of local American Indian tribes and what the waters meant to them, according to museum director Nancy

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