The Wellspring Senior Foundation in Lakewood has announced an $11,000 grant from the Denver Foundation to support health screening and promotion at Wellspring's Eaton Terrace facilities.

The Fairfield County Community Foundation has announced that twenty-nine prospective public school principals recently completed a year of specialized training to fill a looming leadership void in the county's four urban school districts.

The Boston Foundation has announced that more than fifty organizations working to provide safe, constructive programs for local youth during the summer will receive a total of nearly $500,000 as part of StreetSafe Boston, a partnership that includes the mayor's office, the Boston Police Department, the Boston Public Health Commission, Boston Centers for Youth and Families, faith-based and community-based organizations, and leading funders.

The Grand Haven Area Community Foundation has awarded a challenge grant to support renovations to the area's boardwalk and create an endowment, the Grand Haven Tribune reports.

The Midland Area Community Foundation has elected Jim Hop as its new chairman.

The Portland-based Oregon Community Foundation has announced a new scholarship fund for military veterans established by former Congresswoman Darlene Hooley, who retired from the House of Representatives in 2008.

The Seattle Foundation has announced that the city's former mayor, Norman Rice, will serve as the foundation's new president and CEO.

The Appleton-based Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region has announced a new grant program designed to help charitable organizations deal with budget pressures created by the recession. The foundation is redirecting about $650,000 from existing grant programs to its new Bridge Grant Program.

Increasingly, philanthropic people with even modest assets are discovering the value of -- and the value in -- donor advised funds.

Charitable individuals and families can establish donor advised funds through America's 700-plus community foundations, via commercial gift funds, and within some universities and religious foundations. Community foundations can accept securities, including closely held stock, mutual fund shares, IRAs, 401(k) and 403(b) plans, life insurance, land, charitable lead and remainder trusts, and private foundation assets. Gifts to community foundations qualify for higher deductions compared with private foundations: up to 50 percent of adjusted gross income on gifts of cash, compared with 30 percent for private foundations.

* Flexible grant payouts. Giving through a community foundation, a donor has none of the hassles of a private foundation: start up costs, excise tax, tax returns, accounting. Investments are handled with highest degree of professionalism; Kern Community Foundation assets are managed by the California Community Foundation, in service since 1915.

* Grantmaking expertise and due diligence. Gifts made from donor advised funds can be made privately or publicly, as desired.

Now in its 10th year of service, the Kern Community Foundation connects people who care with causes that matter -- to donors and to the community at large.

Hampton Roads, VA - 06.19.2009

NORFOLK

The Norfolk Foundation has awarded $865,050 in scholarships to 327 Hampton Roads students.

The students will attend more than 65 different colleges and universities in the fall. The scholarships are provided by more than 50 permanent scholarship funds started by foundation donors.

The scholarships were among more than $1.6 million that the foundation recently awarded. Recipients included 17 nonprofit organizations that received a total of $740,939.

It includes grants totaling $267,818 for the purchase of pianos at Academy of Music, Ferguson Center for the Arts, Norfolk Public Schools, Old Dominion University, Portsmouth Public Schools, Hidenwood Presbyterian Church and the Rappahannock Concert Association.

Other recipients included:

Tidewater Community College $136,450 for training for nonprofit staff and board members.

Virginia Opera $115,000 for accounting and fundraising computer software.

The Endependence Center $83,610 to upgrade the Norfolk headquarters for this organization helps people with disabilities.

The Planning Council $60,000 to help produce the 2009 Investment in Priorities report on health, recreation and social welfare needs in the region.

African American Historical Society of Portsmouth $37,827 to help restore the former Colored Community Library as a museum and heritage center.

Tidewater Arts Outreach $11,105 for office equipment.

The Schoolhouse Museum in Smithfield $10,000 for displays and to complete oral histories of people who attended or taught at local African-American schools.

Hampton Roads Chamber Players $7,529 for digital sound and video recording technology for the youth strings ensemble.

Judeo-Christian Outreach Center $7,100 for strategic planning and development training.

Peninsula Fine Arts Center $4,500 for a Line of Duty exhibit about military personnel.

The foundation, created in 1950, is Hampton Roads largest grant and scholarship provider distributing more than $10.5 million last year.

Grants awarded in effort to improve middle school math - San Jose Mercury News Grants awarded in effort to improve middle school math Posted:06/19/2009 11:42:45 AM PDT Updated:06/19/2009 11:42:46 AM PDT

In an effort to improve math scores among Silicon Valley middle schoolers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation has awarded grants totaling $250,000 to three local organizations.

A grant of $100,000 went to Silicon Valley Education Foundation for its Stepping Up to Algebra summer program for seventh-graders; Silicon Valley Leadership Group, $75,000 for its program to train middle school math teachers; and $75,000 to Silicon Valley Network.

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The Communities Foundation of Texas recently embarked on a campaign to launch DonorBridge, a portal that provides both its donors (Donor Advised Fund holders) and the greater community of Dallas a resource with which they could make informed decisions on whom to volunteer with, support, donate to or simply learn more about. CFT has always been a leading community foundation, but in my eyes, this groundbreaking initiative has propelled them into the “visionary” category. They are taking a leading role in fostering philanthropy in their community, at a time when it needs it most.

To encourage donations, Communities Foundation of Texas, with support from The Dallas Foundation, designated a total of $300,000 in matching funds for contributions made through DonorBridge to participating nonprofit organizations on that day.

All in all, Dallas Giving Day raised over $4 million dollars for Dallas based charities. For example, CFT brought in 50 to 100 nonprofits from Dallas and shared with them the vision of the matched gifts (up to $300,000) program on Dallas Giving Day and allowed them to reach out to their donors.

PITTSBURGH, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Foundation recently honored Highmark Inc.'s PALS (People Able to Lend Support) program with its 2009 Community Foundation Leadership Award.

PALS began in September 1997 with the goal of providing nonmedical, in-home services and activities to seniors - members and nonmembers - living within the communities served by Highmark.

During the past 11 years, PALS has increased its services to include 52 book clubs in 14 counties, 12 walking clubs in county parks and senior high-rises and quilt clubs that donate lap robes to seniors living in nursing facilities.

The clubs, along with various other PALS activities, have had a far-reaching, positive impact by allowing seniors to enhance their physical and mental health through weekly exercise programs and fellowship activities within their own communities.

The AHIP Foundation's Community Leadership Awards Program annually recognizes AHIP member organizations for leading practices and programs in the health insurance plan industry.

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Community foundation to give away nearly $93,000 in grants - TimesRepublican.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community info - Times Republican

The Community Foundation of Marshall County will hold its Community Grants Awards Night Tuesday on the campus of Marshalltown Community College.

The event will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Grant awards are given to project in six focus areas: arts and culture, health and human services, education, recreation, historic preservation, community affairs and economic development, and environmental education and protection.

Projects in the year's award package are located in six communities in the county.

Most of the money for the program comes from funds designated by the state from gambling revenues. Number two, our main focus is to help different groups create endowments."

To help grow the program, donors to the Community Foundation of Marshall County can receive a 20 percent state income tax credit (up to $100,000 per taxpayer) on qualifying gifts made each year.

Crime, poverty and unemployment are among the issues likely to be discussed.

"Most of the civic issues that need to be addressed have already been identified, and our firm wanted to provide the various constituencies in the area with the opportunity to have a communal dialogue on how they can collaborate with one another to get the job done," said Bob Dwyer, an attorney with Knox, McLaughlin, Gornall and Sennett, a law firm that is sponsoring the program, and a board member of the Erie Community Foundation.

Grammy-Winners $15,000 Grant Will Help Provide Counseling and Support Services

Fairfield native and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter John Mayer recently helped to ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS in lower Fairfield County continue to receive high quality services.

Family Centers has received a $15,000 grant from the Back To You Fund of the Fairfield County Community Foundation (FCCF) Mayers donor-advised fund for its Stamford CARES program.

In addition to Mayers gift, the Fairfield County Community Foundation also secured additional funding to support Stamford CARES HIV/AIDS counseling services.

The Back to You Fund is John Mayers donor advised fund at the Fairfield County Community Foundation and was established in 2003.

The Fairfield County Community Foundation is a community foundation based in Norwalk, CT and allows the Back to You Fund to operate with minimal cost and without the burden of running a foundation.