We could list a dazzling array of facts and figures here about our strong and continued asset growth and our many years of life-changing grant making, but those can be found elsewhere on this site. In this space, our purpose is to simply say we enable generous people like you to easily give back to the community you love. Whether that community is the Roanoke Valley, the Martinsville-Henry County area, the Alleghany Highlands or other parts of Western Virginia, we stand ready to serve you. You will discover that incorporating the community foundation option into your lifetime charitable giving and your estate plans will prove rewarding while being flexible and effective in its execution, tax-wise in its benefits, and permanent in carrying on your philanthropic legacy.
Nonprofits are essential to the vitality of our community – the place we all call home. Each organization provides important and very challenging work daily…
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As the Community Foundation has grown over the years, we have increasingly expanded our services to different components of the philanthropic landscape…
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Many individuals choose to create a charitable legacy through a planned or estate gift. When you make a commitment to strengthen your community, today or in the future…
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Our mission is to make giving easy for those in our community who are dedicated to making a difference. Let us help you lift up the causes important to you!
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Good Samaritan Hospice was awarded a $20,000 grant from Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia’s Marion S. and Willie Z. Camp Fund for Eldercare to support its Palliative Care Program.
Good Samaritan's home-based palliative care program serves some of the community’s most vulnerable residents, especially those living with a serious illness who are homebound and do not have access to quality health care. Palliative care partners with physicians' offices, hospitals, and home health agencies to help people manage their care at home, avoid unwanted emergency room visits and hospitalizations, and enjoy enhanced quality of life.
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Our June NPO Connect meeting was hosted by Rachel Spencer, VP of Strategic Communications with Access Advertising & Public Relations It was a wonderful presentation on the importance of planning ahead for crisis communications!
If you were not able to join this month's meeting, you can click the link below to watch at your convenience.
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Whether you are looking for a need to support in within our community or you need help filling a need you’ve already found, we are here to help! Our staff has the experience and expertise to assist donors in setting up the most advantageous legacy gifts and donor-advised funds.
We also place the utmost importance on staying connected with our local non-profit community so that we can respond efficiently to urgent needs.
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Happy first day of summer! We hope you get outside to enjoy the summer sunshine, and maybe even treat yourself to a trip to a local Farmer’s Market, like the Uptown Martinsville Farmers' Market, to pick up some healthy and delicious food grown in our very own community!
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Happy Friday! We hope this photo of one of Healing Strides of Virginia’s horses enjoying the hay purchased with grant funding from The Phalia M. and Guy M. Kinder Fund makes you smile.
Healing Strides of Virginia received a grant this past winter from The Phalia M. and Guy M. Kinder Fund to support the purchase of hay bales to feed their horses during the coldest months of the year.
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There is still time to register to join us for the upcoming NPO CONNECT meeting on Thursday, June 23rd, from 12:00 pm – 1:00pm. Our presenter, Rachel Spencer, VP of Strategic Communication with Access Advertising & PR, will be sharing her insight regarding best practices for crisis communication in response to organizational events as well as response to events in the world around us!
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Summer is right around the corner and many pools are opening for the season! Swim safety is so important this time of year. Since 2014, Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia has proudly sponsored, with the help of a generous anonymous donor, swim classes offered by the Martinsville-Henry County YMCA. These Learn to Swim classes are offered free of charge to all first graders in Martinsville and Henry County schools.
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Calling All Non-Profit Professionals! Join us for our upcoming NPO CONNECT meeting on Thursday, June 23rd, from 12:00 pm – 1:00pm. Our presenter, Rachel Spencer, VP of Strategic Communication with Access Advertising & PR, will be sharing her insight regarding best practices for crisis communication in response to organizational events as well as response to events in the world around us!
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It is an honor and privilege to help families establish philanthropic legacies in their loved ones’ names. We recently had the opportunity to help create The Robert F. McMillan Memorial Fund; a donor-advised fund which will mainly support musicians and music education in loving memory of Bob McMillan, affectionately known as Mr. Mac to so many. We are grateful to his wife of 51 years, Jackie, for trusting Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia in establishing this fund.
Gifts in memory of Robert F. McMillan can be made to this fund by mailing a donation to Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia at P.O. Box 1124, Martinsville, VA 24114, with the name of the fund on the memo line. Folks can also visit www.cfwesternva.org, click on “Donate Now", click the “Show all Funds List”, and then select “Robert F. McMillan Memorial Fund” for make a direct gift online.
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