Our typical answer is: We do great things for everyone in southeastern Virginia -- a theme that endures year after year with different stories to illustrate it.
While that thought underpins the community foundation's annual report released in July 2015, the actual words on the cover are: It's All About the Future. Those important words came from the creative mind of photographer Glen McClure, who took the cover photo of a trio of smart, happy second graders in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
As we were hauling photography gear into Seatack Elementary, An Achievable Dream Academy for the report's first photo shoot Glen said this was a great way to start days of shooting. After all, "it's all about the future."
Bingo..... a theme is born. Click here to look at the latest annual report and see why Glen's words are so true.
(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. )
