Turn your passion into reality. Our community foundation donors are passionate people with a common mission: inspiring philanthropy and transforming the quality of life in southeastern Virginia. Since 1950, we’ve invested over $225 million on behalf of generous people, who live, work and strive to make Hampton Roads a great community.
If you wander from studio to studio in the new D'Art Center in Norfolk, Virginia the 21 artists
Vonnie Whitworth loves the light in her studio.
working there will enthusiastically tell you what they like most about their new home at 740 Duke Street:
Being reunited after an explosion at their downtown Norfolk location in April 2016 displaced them for months.
The creative energy that flows from the neighboring Chrysler Museum of Art, its hot glass studio and the new NEON arts district.
The
natural light streaming into their new home on two floors in an office
building.The light is perfect for painting and creating other works of
art.
For
Carolyn Phillips, D'Art Center executive director, the move to the new
D'Art at Duke "is all positive" and continues a tradition started in
1986 when the collaborative studio and gallery first opened in
Norfolk. For artists like Vonnie Whitworth, a pastel artist on at least
her third D'Art location, "it feels good to be here." Ken Wright, a
long-time D'Art artist who creates with acrylics, likes his
lighted-filled studio where he can "focus on painting."
The artists moved to their new home recently with help from a recent $25,000 Hampton Roads Community Foundation
grant that paid for building enhancements and moving expenses. "To
call this grant a lifesaver would be an understatement," Phillips says.
In
addition, a $5,000 grant from the Mermaid Fund helped sustain the
visual art center when it had to vacate its former building. The Norfolk
Arts and Humanities Commission started the Mermaid Fund at the
community foundation in 2015. A $2,000 matching grant from the Business
Consortium for Arts Support, which the community foundation helps fund,
also helped sustain the art center while its artists were displaced.
On March 23, 2016 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
the business consortium will sponsor an open house and benefit at the
new D'Art at Duke . The center at 740 Duke Street is open Tuesdays
through Saturdays from 10 .m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.
Artist Ken Wright and Carolyn Phillips, D'Art director, are happy about the new center.
Through the generous support of our donors, Hampton RoadsCommunity Foundation offers over 70 different college scholarships for undergraduate, graduate and medical
school students. Today we invite you to learn more about our Smith Scholars:
History:
In 1952, Florence Smith left the Hampton Roads Community
Foundation approximately
Florence Smith
$400,000 through her estate to create a scholarship to
help Virginians attend medical school. Smith’s father, Dr. Hy Smith, was a
Civil War surgeon and treated Yellow Fever victims before opening a practice in
Norfolk.
Eligibility:
Smith Scholars must be long-time Virginia residents who are
attending or have attended medical school in Virginia to earn a M.D. degree
from Eastern Virginia Medical School, University of Virginia School of
Medicine, or Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.
Impact:
Since 1953 when the first Smith scholarships were awarded:
·More than $2.5 million in Smith scholarships have been awarded.
750+ physicians received a Smith scholarship, including 15 current medical students. Most recipients have the scholarship for four years.
·Many Smith Scholars have gone on to distinguished
careers in medicine that have truly impacted their communities for the better. Many have been the presidents of local, state and national professional societies. Among their past honors are
·National Young Internist of the Year
·Chief aerospace medicine for the Air National
Guard
·Virginia Physician of the Year
·CEO of the Virginia Department of Health
·Commander of the form Walter Reed Army Hospital
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Scholarships are awarded through a competitive process based on established
criteria, interested physicians and medical students are encouraged to learn more and apply.December 1 is when applications for 2017-18 scholarships are available.
Since 1950, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation has
partnered with area
The nonprofit academy is an award winner.
organizations to improve life in southeastern Virginia.
Thanks to the generosity of numerous donors, we offer many ways to help
nonprofits do their best work. Check out these six opportunities your
organization can leverage to do great work:
1.Talk with us: Make time to stop by on a Drop-in Day (usually the first
Thursday of the month between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.). No appointments or formal agenda needed. Just come visit with a program officer to explore ideas and get
feedback on possible grant requests.
a.Upcoming
dates: March 3, April 5, May 5
2.Apply for a grant: Thanks to our generous donors, we offer a variety of
competitive Community Grants to help you address community needs.
Our grants provide options for seed and program funding as well as facilities
improvement and an array of special-interest grants.
a.Want more information? We’ve got online tutorials for registration and
completing your application.
b.Ready to Apply?You’ll need to login or register in our online application
system.
3.Explore ways to build your endowment: We manage more than 40 permanent
endowments for area nonprofits and help them grow over time. Organizational
fund holders receive annual distributions of unrestricted support to further
their mission.
4.Subscribe to receive more information:
We offer a free monthly e-newsletter, the Grant Seekers Gazette, designed to
keep area nonprofits in the know about grant opportunities, nonprofit classes,
and timely news.
5.Check out our nonprofit resource kit: Our online toolkit features nearly 100
free resources designed to help nonprofits improve organizational effectiveness
and efficiency from fund raising to board development and marketing.
6.Attend an Academy for Nonprofit Excellence class: A nonprofit training program
offered in partnership with Tidewater Community College, the classes are meant
to improve skills, through one- and two-day classes.
In the fall of 2001, Rev. Anne
C. Brower, M.D. and Glenn Allen Scott married in Norfolk,
Glenn & Anne on their wedding day
Virginia at the Christ & St. Luke's Episcopal Church where she had served as a minister after a career in medicine.
Both of the newlyweds were
in their 60s and had full households so they “didn't need anything," Glenn
has shared.
This is how the Glenn Allen Scott and Anne C. Brower Cultural
Endowment Fund formed in honor of their marriage at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. The permanent fund continues to support
Hampton Roads arts and culture over a decade later.
This generous couple is gone now -- Anne
passed away in 2013 and Glenn passed on February 8, 2016. But the
Scott-Bower Fund they started will continue to do good forever in tribute to their marriage and love of their community.
Indeed, the fund has already awarded over $21,000 in their names with the most recent grants going out from the community foundation to two cultural groups just days after Glenn passed away.
While we are saddened by the recent loss of Glenn, we fondly remember him and his work
with the Virginia-Pilot for 45 years where he retired as associate editorial
page editor. He was a champion for philanthropy. Learn more about Glenn’s amazing life and make gift
in his memory to the Scott-Bower Fund by clicking here or mailing your donation to 101 West Main
Street, Suite 4500, Norfolk, VA 23510.
In honor of Valentine's Day coming up this weekend we salute the late Jane and Bill Charters, a
Jane & Bill Charters loved their community.
Norfolk, Virginia couple who loved each other and their community. The Charters continue to shower some of the region's most vulnerable citizens with opportunities for better lives. Thanks to Jane's estate planning, she and Bill have provided more than $3.7 million in grants to 40 organizations in southeastern Virginia since her death in 2004. (Bill died before her 22 years earlier.)
All grant recipients are Hampton Roads nonprofits that daily help struggling citizens keep roofs over their heads and food on the table while also having access to health care and chances to improve their lives.
The Charters' work is done quietly in partnership with the Hampton Roads Community Foundation where Jane left a generous $6 million bequest to start the William A. and Jane M. Charters Fund. She wanted her field-of-interest fund to be for basic human needs such as shelter, food, medical care and clothing.
In 2015 alone the Charters Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation has helped
Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia provide financial and housing counseling to help get clients out of debt and on the road to stability.
Goodwill Industries of Central Virginia implement job training programs for 150 unemployed or under-employed people.
HER Shelter start a program to helpdomestic abuse victims immediately find a safe place to go.
Judeo-Christian Outreach Center implement a housing stabilization program for formerly homeless citizens.
Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia expand services to help citizens resolve legal issues that are barriers to housing and employment.
Park Place Health & Dental Center expand the hours a dentist is on duty to treat patients with dental problems and no health insurance.
PIN Ministry provide medical and dental care for the homeless.
Samaritan House, Genevieve Shelter, HER Shelter and the YWCA of South Hampton Roads collaborate to start a regional hotline that homeless citizens can call to connect with needed services.
Virginia Supportive Housing provide services for formerly homeless residents of the new Crescent Square apartments in Virginia Beach.
Volunteers of America Chesapeake hire a coordinator to find permanent housing for formerly homeless residents.
Who were the Charters? Jane was a retired federal employee who worked as an administrative assistant with the Navy and also sang professionally. Bill started work in a bank and went on to co-found Investment Corp. of Norfolk in 1927, which introduced the region to the idea of home mortgages. He went on to lead more than 20 real estate companies.
Both Jane and Bill Charters quietly and generously supported their community during their lifetimes. And, they will always continue to do that through their permanent fund at their community foundation.
(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 athamptonroadscf.org. You canclick hereto locate a community foundation near you.)
