The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation provides funding to improve the quality of life for residents in the city of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson and Orange. The Community Foundation focuses its funding on a range of priorities, including: health, environment, arts, education, and human service.
Community Endowment Fund provides grants that:
Enrich the community - supports a wide range of activities that keep the community vibrant and strong,
Strengthen community systems - supports programs that strengthen the formal and non-formal systems that are the fabric of our community, or that help individuals or community groups to access those systems; and
Shape futures for residents - Starting in 2016, the Community Foundation will introduce ‘Shaping Futures’ grants to support programs aimed at effectively delivering proven interventions in order to achieve measurable outcomes for identified community groups or population segments in the local area.: