Fairfield Countys Community Foundation Inc

Programs: Grants - the organization awarded and made grants to 501(c)(3) organizations to promote education and youth development, community & economic development, the arts, health services, the environment, empower women & girls, and nonprofit capacity building. In fiscal year 2017, the organization awarded: 758 grants for education and youth development totaling $7,512,750, 471 grants to increase economic opportunity for county residents totaling $5,880,376, 129 grants for the arts totaling $707,640, 53 grants for environment totaling $480,687, 34 grants for women & girls programs totaling $823,851, 43 grants for nonprofit capacity building totaling $418,437 and 102 grants for other programs totaling $1,103,064.

community leadership - fccf promotes and supports collaborations, partnerships and indicatives to increase family economic security, help young people become self-sufficient, empower women and girls, protect the local environment, and support the vibrancy of the arts. Fccf strengthens fairfield county nonprofits by providing workshops, trainings and technical assistance to agencies and their staff & volunteers through the foundation's center for nonprofit excellence, which provided services to 686 individuals representing 325 nonprofit organizations. We sponsored 21 roundtable/networking events for nonprofit staff and board members. We also conduced 11 executive leadership coaching sessions for leaders of high impact organizations and offered financial management training.

financial resource development - the organization educates donors, agencies and the community to increase local philanthropy to provide a strong base of support for fairfield county non-profit organizations now and in the future. Fccf initiated fc gives, a community wide day of giving day that raised $1,465,246 in giving directly to local charities.