$20,000 Total Match Offered Two More Days until Nevada's Big Give! In two days you will will be able to contribute to the Partnership Program through Nevada's Big Give and your gift will be matched to a total of $20,000. The Nevada Big Give is coming on November 17th.
This is the time to join with us. Log on Thursday and double your gift.
Your support, combined with the contributions of others makes the Partnership Grants powerful. Together Partnership Grant donors made 20 grants possible in 2011. Gifts of $50 to $5,000 will join forces to change the community in 2012. Two fundholders at the Community Foundation are putting up a match to your gift because they believe and support the Partnership Grant program. They invite you to partner with us. This is your chance to join with your neighbors and friends and be part of the Foundation's premier grant program.
In 2011 the Community Foundation supported 20 nonprofit organizations through Partnership grants totaling over $100,000. We hope to increase the number of nonprofits winning grants next year. You along with others from our community and from within the Foundation are what makes this program a success. We can't do it without you.
Our community's need is great. The Partnership Grant program helps nonprofits rise to the challenge and your donation will be doubled by a one-day-only match!
Use this link to log on and donate to the Partnership Grant program through Nevada's Big Give: Mark your calendars for Thursday November 17 to contribute to the Partnership Grant Program through Nevada's Big Give. |
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McGill Swimming Hole will Benefit from New Fund.
The scope of philanthropy at the Community Foundation is as varied and unique and fun as the people we work with.
The McGill Nevada Swimming Pool Fund, to be funded with an estate gift, will keep swimming free and pay for lifeguards to keep the families of McGill cool and refreshed during the long hot summers. In this small town the McGill Swimming Hole is a magnet for local kids and becomes a kind of town square.You can stretch out on the sandy beach, play on the slides or diving board, or catch guppies in the shallows. It is the best place to connect with neighbors when temperatures are in the 100s. Our Legacy fundholder, who enjoyed the swimming hole during her youth will make sure that generations of McGill kids can do cannonballs into a free, clean, cool and safe pool
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"It is not evolutionary - This is revolutionary!"
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This is what a very satisfied fundholder exclaimed to Tracy Turner after spending the afternoon watching children and their teachers in Douglas County Elementary Schools using the Promethean Boards he purchased for their classrooms.
Fundholders are encouraged to accompany Tracy on site visits to witness their grants in action. By talking with the nonprofit organizations' executives and people in the trenches,fundholders learn first-hand just what their grants areaccomplishing. Fundholders come away re-charged and satisfied. Nonprofits have the opportunity to strengthen a relationship. Connecting fundholders in a deep manner to their passions -- be it education or the environment - is the best part of Tracy's job.
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Chimps and Bikes Share Fundholder's Love.  Chimps and bikes, not to be confused with chimps on bikes.
Both primates and the construction of theTahoe Pyramid Bikeway at McCarran Ranch are supported by a fundholder passionate about the planet's environment.
A long-time supporter of animal habitat protection world-wide as well as here at home, this fundholder recently sent a grant to the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation. In addition she advised a grant to The Nature Conservancy of Nevada to help extend the Tahoe Pyramid Bikeway. Chimps and Bikes - not surprising to those who know and love this fundholder whose passion for the environment knows no boundaries.
What ignites your spark? Dive in at the Community Foundation. |
To our nonprofit partners:
We are grateful for your commitment to your mission, and your work in our community.
Most of all we are grateful for YOU. |
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Who We Are
Board of Trustees
Norma Webster
Board Chair
Linda Smith
Vice Chair
Butch Anderson
Treasurer
Thomas Hall
Secretary
Sallie B. Armstrong
Kathie Bartlett
Rebecca Dickson
Nora James
Brian Kennedy
Diana Kern Cary Lurie Lance McKenzie Jim Pfrommer Jennifer Satre Jim Webster
Advisory Board
John Badwick
Kim Becker
Annette Bidart
Greg Brower
Barbara Drake
Gail Humphreys
Dong Joon "DJ" Lee
Lyle Martin
Magda Martinez-Hoffman
Teresa Mentzer
Tina Nappe
Alicia Reban
Emeritus Board
Robert Armstrong Richard Barnard
Fred Boyd
Kathie Dees
Mendy Elliott Nancy Fennell
Mark Knobel
John Mulligan
David Turner
Col. William Van Allen (1914- 2004)
Ronald Zurek
Staff Chris Askin, CSPG, CFRE
President and CEO
Margaret Stewart
Communications Director Tracy Peterson Turner, PhD Program Officer Ralph Vroman Controller Shay Wotring
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Connect Through Us
Local professional advisors have told us...They are using
Nonprofit Connections
when they work with their clients.
Check out the
page on nevadafund.org
More northern Nevada nonprofit organizations are listed every week.
We extend the invitation to participate to all area nonprofit organizations. Those that are included on the grid are those who have sent in their link.
You can help the nonprofit closest to your heart by encouraging them to mark their place on the connections grid.
(If you would like your nonprofit included on our Connections grid, email Tracy Turner to learn how.)
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Call Chris Askin, President and CEO
775-333-5499
to discuss leaving a bequest.
You can create a community where your grandchildren will want to live.
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