The Community Foundation Serving Coastal South Carolina
During his tenure as executive director of the NEW Fund of the Community Foundation Serving Coastal South Carolina, Bernie Mazyck identified three constituencies—what he calls “a primary, secondary and a tertiary constituency.” According to Mr. Mazyck, “Our primary constituency is the neighborhood groups we are working for and with. This ties in with our
values which say that we are not ‘serving’ our neighborhood constituents, but rather, they are our
‘customers’ or our ‘boss’.” The secondary constituency is the Community Foundation as a mainstream institution—its board, staff and donors. The third constituency is the broader community—other institutions, city government, the legislature, etc. As a project of the Community Foundation, the NEW Fund is governed by an advisory board of neighborhood residents (primary constituency) and the community foundation board (secondary constituency).