Twice a year, the CACF Community Endowment awards funding through a competitive grant cycle. On September 10th, 2007 the Governing Board approved the following grants totaling $143,260 in support for non-profits in the CACF service area:
AIDS Services Group (ASG): $6,500 to stock the emergency Food Pantry for ASG clients.
Alliance for Interfaith Ministries: $6,000 to assist with emergency assistance to families in temporary financial crisis.
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network: $5,000 in support of the Kids Café afterschool program for the 17 after-school sites in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, and Orange.
Blue Ridge Medical Center, Rural Health Outreach Program: $8,000 to offer health services to Latinos in need in Nelson and Albemarle Counties and Charlottesville.
Center for Nonprofit Excellence: $7,500 for operations which allow the CNE to continue to provide an array of services to the nonprofit community to help maximize their potential.
Charlottesville Symphony Society: $2,500 to support Symphony Preludes, a program that sends musicians into all public schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle County for demonstrations, instruction and performances.
Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority: $20,000 to hire a Prevention Specialist to work with public housing residents to prevent eviction, provide resources and promote self-sufficiency.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation: $7,500 to support the Charlottesville area focused Virginia Watershed Education Program that provides on-the-water field experiences and environmental education to students and teachers.
Emergency Food Bank: $8,840 to provide weekly food bags and a monthly dinner for clients of On Our Own.
Fluvanna County Public Schools: $7,520 in support of the Families Learning Together Program.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville: $10,000 to help complete the conversion of Sunrise Trailer Park into Sunrise Park.
Independence Resource Center: $7, 500 to purchase three sports wheelchairs to support the Charlottesville Cardinals wheelchair basketball program.
Louisa Downtown Development Corporation: $5,000 to help complete the construction and restoration of Louisa High School and its re-use as the Louisa Arts Center.
Nelson County Museum of Rural History (Oakland): $6,000 to provide staff and material support to the museum, in collaboration with the Millennium Group, on an oral history center and project.
Piedmont Family YMCA: $8,000 to provide funding for new commercial grade equipment used in food preparation at the YMCA’s Child Care Center.
Rockfish Valley Community Center: $10,000 to support a capital plan to replace the antiquated steam heating system.
Rockfish Valley Foundation: $2,500 to improve the Camille Memorial Park trail head.
Salvation Army: $10,000 to support of the Medical Assistance Program that provides co-payments and assists clients in navigating the indigent care program at the UVa Medical Center,
Southern Environmental Law Center: $5,000 to support a study and publication of findings of stormwater pollution in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is a permanent endowment dedicated improving the quality of life in Charlottesville and the Counties of Albemarle, Greene, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Buckingham, and Nelson. CACF awards grants of more than $3 million annually through its Community Endowment and its many donor-advised funds. Since its inception in 1967, the Community Foundation has made grants of approximately $22 million to hundreds of nonprofit agencies.