Central Carolina Community Foundation offers a wide range of grants and scholarships to help support our Midlands community.
In fiscal year 2011, Central Carolina Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees approved 21 competitive grants totaling $199,860 from community funds to support dropout prevention, homelessness prevention and illiteracy reduction. We award grants primarily to nonprofit organizations that are defined as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
On the recommendation from our Program and Grantmaking Committee, our Board of Trustees approved changes to our competitive Impact Grant program in 2011. As our focus shifts to our Literacy 2030 and Graduation Imperative initiatives, our Impact Grant program now supports creative and innovative programs that have a measurable, positive impact on dropout prevention and illiteracy reduction.
In addition to our discretionary grantmaking, the Foundation oversees several other grant processes including those for Greater Chapin Community Endowment, Orangeburg Calhoun Community Foundation, Sumter Community Foundation, the Knight Foundation Advised Fund, Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation and Women in Philanthropy.
Collective Impact
In addition to the grants and scholarships awarded through a competitive process, the Foundation also awards hundreds of grants from our agency endowment, designated, donor-advised and field-of-interest funds each year. The numbers below reflect the aggregate of all grants and scholarships awarded in fiscal year 2011.
Animal Welfare (23).......................................................................................... $ 256,474.50
Arts & Culture (81)............................................................................................ $ 484,578.21
Community Improvement & Public Interest (48)........................................ $ 962,148.99
Conservation & Preservation (33)................................................................. $ 189,447.89
Economic Development (4)............................................................................ $ 705,000.00
Education (173)............................................................................................. $ 2,018,939.44
Faith-based (133).............................................................................................. $ 891,700.98
Health & Wellbeing (74)............................................................................... $ 1,524,205.67
Housing & Homelessness (53)......................................................................... $ 704,201.57
Human Services (144)................................................................................... $ 1,066,849.95
Public Protection (4)........................................................................................... $ 98,000.00
Recreation (9).................................................................................................... $ 130,619.00
Scholarships (42)............................................................................................... $ 122,062.50
Youth Development (24)................................................................................. $ 150,130.14
Total Grants - 845............................................................ $ 9,304,358.84