The mission of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is to improve the quality of life for those living and working in the city of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson and Orange by:

Actively and effectively encouraging local philanthropy resulting in the establishment and maintenance of perpetual and increasing endowment funds for the benefit of our community;

Serving donors by providing a vehicle to facilitate in perpetuity their charitable intents;

Exercising leadership in the philanthropic community by the ongoing and effective assessment of changing community needs and facilitating the exchange of information regarding those needs and the role of the Community Foundation;

Prudently managing its endowment funds and those of other nonprofit organizations and creatively making grants from its income, which will effectively meet the changing needs of our community.