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Read MoreAlbert Einstein is reputed to have said, ‘Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.’ It’s an adage Mike Deam lives by when giving. Mike, his wife Glenys and their two adult children make up the Deam Family Fund,...
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The Geelong Community Foundation encourages individuals, families and businesses to donate to the Foundation so that the accumulated capital (the corpus) is retained in the Geelong region and the income generated is used to meet the need of the local community.
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