Become a
Community Champion

Our Community Champions truly embody what philanthropy means to our region. For half a century, Community Champions have shown their love for our region by investing in some of our region’s most pressing needs.

Each year The Greater Washington Community Foundation depends upon the generous partnership of our Community Champions to ignite the power of philanthropy, catalyze community impact, and meet urgent local needs.

Together With Our Community of Givers,
We Have:

  • helped local workers get skills and training to advance in their careers,

  • expanded access to quality education for more children and youth,

  • increased economic mobility for historically underinvested communities,

  • invested in solutions to end homelessness, and much more.

Providing the community leadership that leads to bold solutions requires talent, time, and money. For this, we depend on annual contributions from donors like you!

If you have any questions, please contact Kate Daniel, Development Manager, at kdaniel@thecommunityfoundation.org or (301) 495-3036 x169.

Your Investment at Work

As a Community Champion, you empower The Community Foundation to be flexible and vigilant in leading the response to today’s needs and tomorrow’s challenges.

Your gift fuels our leadership in narrowing our community’s racial wealth gap. Ultimately, it is both our mission and responsibility to create a just, equitable, and thriving region now and for the future.

We cannot do it without you!

Your Support for
Community Champions Ensures that The Community Foundation can:

  • We leverage our resources and expertise to lead our community in addressing the most catalytic opportunity of our lifetimes by investing in innovative solutions to promote economic mobility and systemic change.

  • We identify needs and bring together philanthropic, business, and local government leaders to tackle the region’s most pressing challenges.

  • We offer deep community knowledge, expertise, and insight to help donors find the most rewarding and impactful ways to give back to our community now and in the future.

  • As the region’s largest grantmaker and with a big-picture view of the region’s nonprofit sector, we understand the greatest needs facing our communities and the organizations that can best serve them.

  • We support programmatic initiatives and advocacy around important issues, such as the affordable housing crisis, workforce development, access to health care, and connecting disconnected youth to opportunity.

  • From supporting victims of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and their families to running corporate disaster relief programs for Capital One and Marriott employees, to assisting residents impacted by government shutdowns or the COVID-19 public health and economic crises – we are there whenever our neighbors need us most.

Support Our Community Impact Work

You can also support any of our programmatic initiatives and community endowments to advance our ongoing work to strengthen communities and improve lives throughout this region.

Other Ways To Give

Community Impact Initiatives

These initiatives target specific needs through advocacy, community leadership, and investments in high-performing nonprofits.

Community Endowment Funds

Multiply the impact of your generosity by pooling it with other giving through our professionally managed portfolios designed to address critical needs identified in collaboration with our donors and community partners.

  • Arts and culture

  • LGBTQ+ community

  • Crisis response

  • Health

  • Environment

  • Regional scholarship fund

  • Community endowments for DC, Montgomery County, Northern Virginia, and Prince George’s County