Scholarships.
Grants to nonprofits.
Community leadership initiatives.
Generous donors.
These are the stock and trade of the more than 750 community foundations in North America whose donors come from all walks of life to do good work forever in their home regions.
At the Hampton Roads Community Foundation our annual report is one of our main ways to convey the amazing things that happen when philanthropy, community need and good ideas intersect.
With that in mind, enjoy reading Change Your World -- our latest annual report. It was published in July 2014.
Featured on the cover are two staff members from The Endependence Center in Norfolk, Virginia -- Sylvester Askins (left) and Stephen Johnson (center). Their center received a two-year community foundation grant for a program to help people with disabilities find jobs. Priscilla Barnes (right) is one of the first clients to benefit from the expanded jobs program.
(The Hampton Roads Community Foundation is a regional community foundation started in 1950 as the first community foundation in Virginia. It is among nearly 750 community foundation around the country serving specific geographic regions. It is the largest grant and scholarship provider in southeastern Virginia and manages more than 400 charitable funds created by donors from all walks of life. Over the decades it has provided more than $195 million to improve life for residents living in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, including the cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Smithfield, Suffolk and Virginia Beach. It also serves people in Isle of Wight and Southampton counties and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, including Accomack and Northampton counties. Learn more at hamptonroadscf.org. You can click here to locate a community foundation near you. )
