eNewsletter Archive

Making Connections July, 2010

In This Issue

* New Neighbors in Need Fund Mental Health Grants
* Complete List of New Neighbors in Need Fund Grants
* A Region Responds: The NIN Report to the Community
* Nonprofit Profile: Ascensions
* Donor Profile: Kaiser Permanente
* 2010 Annual Meeting Wrap-Up
* Upcoming Events

Making Connections June, 2010

In This Issue

* Advocacy and The Community Foundation: A Vision of Long-Term Change
* “Think Twice Before You Slice”: Saving the Region’s Safety Net from the Budget Ax
* For Further Reading
* Upcoming Events

Making Connections May, 2010

In This Issue: Focus on the Environment

* Oil Spill Relief Agencies
* Nonprofit Profile: Washington Parks and People
* Donor Profile: The Summit Fund of Washington
* Grantee update -DC Employment Justice Center
* 2010 Civic Leadership Awards: A Winner!
* New Funds
* Upcoming Events

Making Connections April, 2010

In This Issue

* Starbucks Memorial Fund Grants
* Grantee Profile: Men Can Stop Rape
* A New Life for The Partnership for Equity
* New Trustees
* Meet David Bradt, New Board of Trustees Chair
* Grantee Update
* 2010 Linowes Leadership Awards: Call for Nominations
* Upcoming Events

Making Connections March, 2010

Recently, The Community Foundation awarded a $35,000 grant to the Census Project Fund, which supports outreach and public awareness activities that will help ensure a complete and thorough Census count across the Washington, DC metropolitan region. The Fund awards “mini grants” ranging in size from $1,500 to $3,000 to nonprofit organizations that will work in timely and culturally sensitive ways to make sure that “hard- to-count” residents complete and return their Census forms. In similar fashion, foundations nationwide have poured tens of millions of dollars into such efforts.

Making Connections February, 2010

There’s no doubt about it: the nation’s capital is brimming with nonprofits with a national focus – institutions such as the American Red Cross and AARP come to mind. But our region is also home to a vibrant, community-based nonprofit sector with a handful of organizations focused on ensuring equity, access, and opportunity for all residents of our region, including communities whose voices traditionally have been left out of the conversation. These groups – often working at the “grass-roots” level – represent an ideal opportunity for donors who care about such social

Making Connections January, 2010

Our regional affiliate, The Community Foundation for Prince George’s County (CFPGC), has just announced its 2009 National Harbor Community Outreach Grant Fund grants, this year totaling $329,810 in support of 23 nonprofits serving residents of Prince George’s County, MD.

Making Connections December, 2009

The Community Foundation’s Neighbors in Need Fund marches on! This time, we’ve awarded $645,000 in 16 new grants supporting area nonprofits advocating to improve the public systems that thousands of local residents depend on for safety net services.

Making Connections November, 2009

When today’s unemployment rates hit a nearly 30-year high -- as they just have – it’s fair to say that many of us feel helpless. For the employed, there are few jobs to offer and, for the unemployed, there are few jobs to apply for. But at The Community Foundation, we’re doing something about it.

Making Connections October, 2009

Economic forecasters may be reporting that the recession is ending, or already over, but tell that to the families who have lost their homes and moved into shelters or are using food stamps for the first time in their lives, and you’ll hear a very different story. The waves of foreclosures continue, unemployment rates in DC and Maryland recently have risen even higher, and the residual effects of domestic strain are very real…and very disturbing.

Making Connections September, 2009

The big news this month is that through our Neighbors in Need Fund, we’ve just awarded $714,300 to 37 nonprofit safety-net organizations in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Among the recipients are groups such as food banks and free meal programs, homeless shelters, clothing distribution, and foreclosure-prevention efforts working in neighborhoods stretching from DC, Capitol Heights, Gaithersburg, and Silver Spring to Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, and Loudoun County. View the complete list of grantees here.

Making Connections August, 2009

Throughout our community, there are more and more people who never imagined that they would have little or nothing to eat, no livelihood and would be facing the prospect of no place to live. But that is the new reality. And unfortunately the safety net organizations that we all expect to be there are struggling mightily.