Anna Platz among third group of North Country women to receive grant support from Maxine M. Quigg Women in Business Fund
WATERTOWN- The third group of North Country women to receive grant support from the Maxine M. Quigg Women in Business Fund has been revealed.
Among this latest class is Anna Platz, who currently is the Deputy Director of Lewis County Community Services in Lowville, NY.
She was awarded funding to complete the Appreciative Inquiry Certificate Program at the Champlain College Cooperrider Center, which employs a strengths-based approach to focus on what’s working well instead of fixing what’s broken.
Anna earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and psychology in 2016 from SUNY Cortland. She later earned a Master of Public Health from SUNY Albany as well as a certificate in Climate Change & Health from Yale School of Public Health.
Anna is active in her community, serving the board of the Lewis County General Hospital Foundation, and the Community Foundation’s LEAD Council, among other organizations. She lives in Carthage with her cat, Max.
The Maxine M. Quigg Women in Business Fund was established the fund at the Community Foundation in July, 2021, with a goal to increase local mentorship, volunteerism, civic and community engagement, and investment.
Its mission is to perpetuate the life and legacy of Maxine Quigg by supporting and empowering women entrepreneurs in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties to succeed in their pursuits and realize their full potential.
“This is the third year of the Maxine Quigg Women in Business fund grants. I am overwhelmed at times by the interesting and community-forward work the successful recipients are doing,” Kimberley Horrill, Maxine’s sister-in-law, said.
“As the network of women who have received support has grown, I am thrilled to see the interaction between past and present recipients. Maxine would love you all and would be so proud of the work you are doing. Congratulations.”
Maxine was a successful real estate broker and a community and business leader in Jefferson County who passed away unexpectedly in April 2021. At the time of her passing she was serving on the Community Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Image via the NNYCF: From left: Grant recipient Anna Platz, Deputy Director of Lewis County Community Services, Lowville; grant recipient Emily Green, manager and chief operating officer of The Scrub Hub, Watertown; Maxine Quigg’s daughter, Kennedy Quigg; grant recipient Mary Chiappone-Filson, owner of Treating the Root Acupuncture and Massage Therapy, Watertown; and grant recipient Gabriella “Gabi” Haycock, pediatric Doctor of Physical Therapy for Exceptional Kids and Family Therapies, Evans Mills.
