New Year, New You: Time to Plan Your Professional Development for 2016

In 2016 there are great opportunities for nonprofit professionals in southeastern Virginia to

Nonprofit Academy students learn new skills.

learn new skills and broaden their horizons. The Academy for Nonprofit Excellence offers snort, focused courses led by experts who share the latest trends and best practices related to nonprofit staff members, board members and volunteers.

The academy is a collaborative effort supported by the Hampton Roads Community Foundation and Tidewater Community College, which work to keep quality high and costs low. The goal is for nonprofits to quickly gain knowledge that can be put to work immediately helping them accomplish their missions. As a bonus nonprofit professionals get to network with others their field. Students who take enough classes can earn a Certificate in Nonprofit Management. Be sure to take advantage of all the academy has to offer:

Course & Workshops –  one-day sessions generally run from 9 a.m. to3:30 p.m. and are held at TCC's Center for Workforce Solutions, 7000 College Drive, Suffolk, Virginia -- a location convenient for all of Hampton Roads.

·         Communication Planning: Creating Your Blueprint for Action – January 27

·         Customer Service & Marketing: The Secret to Distinguishing Your Brand – February 18

·         Marketing on a Nonprofit Budget – March 24

·         Using Infographics & Dashboards – April 7

·         Effectively Engaging and Managing Volunteers – April 14

·         Pass to Excellence: An Ethics andAccountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector – April 21

·         Navigating the Minefields of Nonprofit Law – April 28

·         Winning the Grant Writing Game: A Four-Part Series on Writing, Researching, Evaluating, and Reporting Grants – a four-art series offered on May 19, May 25, June 9, and June 16

Also offered are Do-It-Yourself DIY) Workshops – shorter, three-hour sessions each focus on a hands-on application. 

·         Constant Contact: The NEW Nuts and Bolts of Email for Today’s World – February 10

·         Constant Contact: The Email Subscriber’s Experience – February 17

·         Constant Contact: Beyond Email, How Best toManage Events, Volunteers, Surveys, and Donations – February 24

·         How to Keep More Donors and Lose Less Sleep – April 6

·         Fundraising Compliance: State and FederalRequirements – April 20

·         How to Start a Nonprofit – May 5

Start planning now for a productive 2016!

Find Funding: Baseball & Softball Grants Available for Your Youth Teams

Are you a coach or volunteer who helps youth softball or baseball leagues in southeastern

Dal Paull loves baseball

Virginia?

Do your teams need new equipment or uniforms? Does your field or sports complex require capital improvements? 

If so, the Dal Pall Fund might be an opportunity you can’t pass up! 

Administered by the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, the charitable fund provides grants ranging from $500-$1,500 in support of youth programs that help children in Hampton Roads or on the Eastern Shore of Virginia learn to play and enjoy baseball and softball. Donor Dal Paull loves the games and appreciates what they teach young people. He tarted his donor-advised fund at the community foundation in 2005 and has recommended grants annually since then.

Past Dal Pall Fund award recipients include Bennetts Creek Little League for uniforms, Fleet Park Little League for break-away bases, Ocean View Little League for equipment and gear, and the Portsmouth Schools Foundation for field repair.

·         Eligibility – any 501(c)3 nonprofit youth baseball and softball programs operating in Hampton Roads area is welcome to apply for a grant.

·         Deadline – completed applications are due by 5 p.m. on February 15. Recipients will be notified by April 1 of request results and grant checks will be sent later in the month.

·         How to Apply – applications must be submitted online here to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. You can preview the application here. 

Still have questions? You can contact our friendly grant program staff at (757) 627-9686 or email voden@hamptonroadscf.org. 

Find Funding: Give Local 757 Is the Largest Fundraising Event in Hampton Roads

On May 3, 2016 everyone can be a philanthropist making life better for Hampton Roads citizens.

The third annual Give Local 757 is an opportunity to educate the public on the many critical nonprofit programs in southeastern Virginia. Give Local 757 also brings the joy of giving and the spirit of philanthropy to a wider audience. The event is sponsored by many area foundations and businesses.

Started in 2014, Give Local 757 is a 24-hour give-a-thon that already is the single largest fundraiser in Hampton Roads history.

·         2014 - $190,000 raised for 107 area nonprofits in just 24 hours

·         2015 - $430,000 raised  for 155 area nonprofits in just 24 hours

·         2016 - $1 million is our goal for more than 200 area nonprofits!

      When? 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.

How can my nonprofit participate? If you work with a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides services in the 757 area code, your organization be part of the giving day. Although you can sign up until mid-April, the sooner you do that the better since this will give you time to use training resources and create a plan for success. Sponsors are providing about 50 different cash prizes your organization could win to augment the donations you receive.

 Register here.

Once registered, be sure to take full advantage of the Give Local 757  NonprofitToolkit, which includes planning tools, graphics, marketing material templates and training dates.

Questions? Contact Tammy Flynn, director of philanthropy with the Peninsula Community Foundation, at (757) 327.0862 or tflynn@pcfvirginia.org.

Find Funding: Scholarships Available for Undergraduate, Graduate & Medical Students

Hampton Roads Community Foundation donors love helping students achieve their full

potential. Through their generous support, we are able to offer over 70 different college scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students.And, are our donors ever generous! For the 2015-16 academic year alone, our donors made possible over $1.2 million in scholarships  for 391 students.

Our scholarships are awarded through a competitive process based on established criteria. Most applicants must demonstrate financial need and plan to maintain full-time enrollment while on scholarship. While most scholarships are for students from the South Hampton Roads region of Virginia, we do have a few that draw applicants from throughout Virginia. With 70+ scholarships available, we encourage you to spend time reviewing them all to see which ones apply best to your situation (your major, college of choice, high school attended, etc.)  

·         Undergraduate Scholarships

·         Graduate and Medical School Scholarships

Applications are posted online on each December 1 and must be submitted by their deadline which ranges from March 1 (in most cases) to as late as May 1 for a few specific scholarships. Each student who submits an application  online through our scholarship portal,will be considered for all scholarships for which they meet the criteria. The following materials will be required at the time of application:

·         FAFSA Student Aid Report

·         Financial Information

·         School Transcripts

·         SAT Scores

·         References

·         Your Personal Statement

Still have questions? Contact our friendly scholarship staff at (757) 622-7951 or scholarships@hamptonroadscf.org. Please  follow our Hampton Roads Community Foundation Scholarships page on Facebook for up-to-date information and resources that can help you. 

 (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 $230 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.)

Generous Donors Create 24 Hampton Roads Community Foundation Funds

It was an extraordinary year for giving in 2015 when donors from all walks of life created an unprecedented 24 permanent named funds at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. This was the most new charitable funds started in a single year at the community foundation, which dates to 1950.

Below are a few of the forward-thinking donors from southeastern Virginia who are the community foundation's new partners in philanthropy. Their funds will forever provide scholarships and generate grants for nonprofits that support a variety of causes. New fund holders include:

Matthew Elliott

• Martha B. Ambler of Norfolk, our retired chief financial officer, and her husband Tom, an

  

  L.D. Britt, M.D.

  attorney with Norfolk Southern.
• Carter Grandy Bernert of Norfolk, granddaughter of one of our founding board members. 
• Edward and Ruth Legum of Virginia Beach, whose family ran furniture stores in our region dating to 1937.  
• Dr. L.D. Britt of Suffolk, a new member of the community foundation board and the Brickhouse Professor of Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School to support a community health fund.
• The late Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr., a professor of information technology at Old Dominion University. The four funds his estate started will benefit Tidewater Community College, Grace Episcopal Church, St. Mary's Catholic Church and Hampton University.
• Matthew Elliott of Norfolk, a former scholarship recipient who is an ODU engineering graduate student and employee of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District. The fund he rallied donors to create will provide a scholarship in memory of two fellow Maury High School swimmers -- Carlton Dean and Joey Callahan.
• Kirkland Molloy Kelley, a Norfolk attorney who is a member of our Professional Advisors Committee
• Sen. L. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth, who has represented the 18th district of Virginia in the General Assembly since 1992. 

  

  Sen. L. Louise Lucas

• The Norfolk Arts and Humanities Commission whose new Mermaid Fund will underpin the arts in Norfolk. 
• Retired veterinarian Dr. John Settle of Virginia Beach and his wife Audrey whose fund supports women in difficult circumstances.
• Retired nurse Madeline Sly of Norfolk, whose husband Don attended medical school in the 1950s with help from a community foundation scholarship. Their fund will provide scholarships for students planning careers in medicine.
• Retired banker Donald J. Trufant of Cape Charles, who was a board member of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation, affiliate to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. His unrestricted fund will support needs on the Eastern Shore.
• Virginia Eye Foundation, which plans to support charities helping to prevent blindness.
• Retired U.S. Sen. John W. Warner of Alexandria, his wife Jeanne and their children created a fund to support the morale of Navy personnel serving on the new Warner submarine. 

  

  Sen. John and Jeanne Warner with the new sub named for him.

  
   (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 $210 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. )