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The Cambridge Community Foundation
The Cambridge Community Foundation is the local giving platform built, funded, and guided by residents since 1916. The foundation is a convener and catalyst for transformative community change.
As a civic leader it offers an independent voice, convenes individuals and organizations, and commissions research to help identify priorities.
The foundation helps set shared goals, spark innovative and effective solutions, and organize collaborations to pursue them.
Web Address
www.cambridgecf.org
Social Media Links
Twitter - @Cambridge_CF
Facebook - www.facebook.com/CambridgeCCF/
Instagram - www.instagram.com/cambridge_cf/
As a civic leader it offers an independent voice, convenes individuals and organizations, and commissions research to help identify priorities.
The foundation helps set shared goals, spark innovative and effective solutions, and organize collaborations to pursue them.
Web Address
www.cambridgecf.org
Social Media Links
Twitter - @Cambridge_CF
Facebook - www.facebook.com/CambridgeCCF/
Instagram - www.instagram.com/cambridge_cf/
Assets and Giving for Cambridge Community Foundation
Assets
2020 - 45,615,345
2019 - 44,503,901
2018 - 41,053,574
2017 - 38,084,483
2020 - 45,615,345
2019 - 44,503,901
2018 - 41,053,574
2017 - 38,084,483
Domestic Grants
2020 - 3,184,654
2019 - 1,867,845
2018 - 1,367,374
2020 - 3,184,654
2019 - 1,867,845
2018 - 1,367,374
Recent News from Cambridge Community Foundation
Cambridge Community Foundation awards $40K to food pantries and programs as first in a series
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The Cambridge Community Foundation has awarded $40,000 in surprise, need-inspired grants to 11 neighborhood food pantries and...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
The Cambridge Community Foundation has awarded $40,000 in surprise, need-inspired grants to 11 neighborhood food pantries and...more
Cambridge Community Foundation awards $40K to food pantries, programs
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The Cambridge Community Foundation is continuing to support residents impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by awarding a total of $40,000...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
The Cambridge Community Foundation is continuing to support residents impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic by awarding a total of $40,000...more
Cambridge Community Foundation - Why I Donate
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This year has been tremendously challenging for so many members of our community. We're so grateful to everyone who has donated to help...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
This year has been tremendously challenging for so many members of our community. We're so grateful to everyone who has donated to help...more
Grants to arts nonprofits flowing, but amounts aren't enough to save ImprovBoston's theater
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
The city and Cambridge Community Foundation have delivered on long-awaited help for arts nonprofits battered by coronavirus closings, but the...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
The city and Cambridge Community Foundation have delivered on long-awaited help for arts nonprofits battered by coronavirus closings, but the...more
CCF, Cambridge create Cultural Capital Fund
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The Cambridge Community Foundation and the city of Cambridge have joined forces to launch a new Cultural Capital Fund with grant funding of...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
The Cambridge Community Foundation and the city of Cambridge have joined forces to launch a new Cultural Capital Fund with grant funding of...more
Foundation's Imagined in Cambridge awards rove from backyard lessons to back in history
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The Cambridge Community Foundation gave out its second annual Imagined in Cambridge Social Innovation Awards on Thursday, recognizing...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
The Cambridge Community Foundation gave out its second annual Imagined in Cambridge Social Innovation Awards on Thursday, recognizing...more
Cambridge Community Foundation Recognizes Five Groups with Second Annual Imagined in ...
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The Cambridge Community Foundation created the Imagined in Cambridge Social Innovation Award in 2019 to uncover these upcoming...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
The Cambridge Community Foundation created the Imagined in Cambridge Social Innovation Award in 2019 to uncover these upcoming...more
Our community response to COVID-19
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As we faced the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambridge Community Foundation needed to act swiftly to address urgent needs in our...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
As we faced the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambridge Community Foundation needed to act swiftly to address urgent needs in our...more
2020 Social Innovation Award Application
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Help us find people working on innovative ideas in Cambridge. Cambridge Community Foundation is excited to announce our second Social...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
Help us find people working on innovative ideas in Cambridge. Cambridge Community Foundation is excited to announce our second Social...more
With Spare Change News closed, a local fund awards one SCN vendor-writer a way to pay rent
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I read on the Cambridge Community Foundation web site that they launched two emergency relief funds coinciding with their mission of protecting...more
Foundation: Cambridge Community Foundation
I read on the Cambridge Community Foundation web site that they launched two emergency relief funds coinciding with their mission of protecting...more
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