North Georgia Community Foundation

Programs: Grants and scholarships the north georgia community foundation offers our donors the opportunity to create a legacy by establishing charitable funds to make grants to support nonprofit organizations and causes important to them. In addition, we support area nonprofits through our community impact grant program and local students through our scholarship programs. During the year, we awarded over 5 million in grants and 200,000 in scholarships.

service to nonprofits the community foundation is committed to supporting local non-profit organizations. The foundation offers affordable office space to a wide variety of non-profits. In addition to the foundation offices, the community foundation building is home to 11 local non-profit organizations. Through the nonprofit network, which provides electronic newsletters with field-specific information to network members and training workshops that are local and affordable for the smaller non-profits in the region, the community foundation is able to build capacity and strengthen the local non-profits so they can better achieve their missions.

promoting philanthropy the community foundation provides professional advisors with the information they need to add charitable giving and philanthropic planning to the discussions they have with their clients. By actively working with professional advisors the community foundation is promoting philanthropy in the north georgia community. In addition, the community foundation hosts an annual philanthropist of the year event which honors an individual, family or business for life-time or long-term achievements that have made a significant impact in the community. The award honors those with a proven record of exceptional generosity and whose generosity encourages others to take philanthropic leadership roles.