The Isaac Cox House still needs help in dire economic times.

Isaac Cox House Coordinator Denise McCord

With the economy slowly creeping back to normalcy, the amount of money that is donated to the Isaac Cox Foundation at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Md.,  is getter bigger and better for students. During the recession woes in 2009, the Isaac Cox Foundation received less than $1 million for scholarships and programs. This year, the foundation raised about $1.2 million.


They are in charge of the college’s 50 year anniversary kickoff gala on Oct. 15.

The economy still affects the way the foundation raises money and helps the college, especially since alumni have less money to donate.
I met up with one of the employees at the Isaac Cox House, where the foundation is run.

“We’re going after more targets, needs and reducing our mailings,” says Denise McCord, who has worked as the foundation's coordinator for 1.5 years.

The Isaac Cox Foundation was created in 1967 to help students and the campus transform into something better. Since 1961, AACC has served more than 53,000 students annually.


McCord says the donations come from many places including:

• Anne Arundel Medical Center
• Whole Foods Market
• Towson University Foundation

The white two-story house where eight people work today once belonged to Isaac Cox, a farmhand manager, who owned and worked on the land in the 1800s.