Good Tidings - Spring/Summer Newsletter 2020

Good Tidings News from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation

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Helping Nonprofits Survive COVID-19

Seven decades of making life better in Hampton Roads.

In April, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation and United Way of South Hampton Roads jointly awarded $517,410 in COVID-19 relief grants to 34 nonprofits. Recipients are:

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An Achievable Dream Virginia Beach , $15,000 for food and other essentials for students and their families.

Deborah DiCroce President and CEO

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Our response is framed in two phases – relief and recovery.

Phase One – Relief. In partnership

with United Way, we rapidly deployed grant funding to our nonprofit partners at the forefront of caring for people in need. The joint grant application for this initial round of funding targeted those organizations helping people get food, shelter, essential needs and mental health counseling. The Hampton Roads Community Foundation and United Way each provided half the funds for $517,410 in relief grants for 34 front-line nonprofits as delineated in the grants list on this page.

Phase Two – Recovery. As our

COVID-19 response shifts from triaging immediate need to recovery, we will award grants to help stabilize nonprofits, including those in the arts, that struggle due to the cancellation of annual fundraisers, programs and events or decreased giving. We expect the process for these grant awards to be similar to the first-phase process. Our assumption is that COVID-19’s financial impact on the operations of area nonprofits will be considerable.

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Buffalow Family and Friends Community Days , $20,000 to feed people in South Norfolk.

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Children’s Health Investment Program (CHIP) , $25,000 for essentials to help families in 11 home visiting programs in the region.

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Communities in Schools of Hampton Roads , $10,000 for mental health services

for parents and guardians of public school students it serves.

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Cover 3 Foundation , $5,000 for breakfast and lunch for area children.

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Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore, $50,000 for food

distributed to residents in South Hampton Roads.

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Inside:

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COVID-19 Grants

Soundings

COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact on our region and its residents. It is heart-wrenching to see individuals and their families, businesses and healthcare providers struggling with the effects. Indeed, the ripples of COVID-19 are everywhere.

In the muck of it are the nonprofit organizations—the proverbial front line for triaging COVID-19’s immediate impact and for rebuilding lives and communities over the long haul.

At its March 25 meeting, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation’s Board of Directors approved $500,000 in initial grant funding for our COVID-19 response. We appreciate receiving additional gifts from existing and new donors to support this work.

And, one of our giving circles, Community Leadership Partners, has shifted its annual grant focus to align with it. Finally, we have collaborated with the United Way of South Hampton Roads to leverage the efforts of both organizations to mitigate COVID-19’s immediate impact.

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ForKids Inc., $25,000 for rental assistance.

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Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court Inc. , $18,300 to feed Portsmouth

residents and to purchase essential items.

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Seventy years ago, seven area civic leaders hatched a forward-thinking idea – create the first community foundation in Virginia. Their goal was to forever “benefit of the people of the City of Norfolk, and of the area within 50 miles of its boundaries,” according to the foundation’s 1950 Resolution and Declaration of Trust.

The founders raised an initial $2,350 and started The Norfolk Foundation to inspire people to entrust the community foundation with “numerous large, small and medium-sized gifts left at different times.”

The result is a vibrant community foundation that has continuously worked to improve life in Hampton Roads.

Over the past seven decades, donors from all walks of life have built a permanent endowment valued at more than $376 million. Donors include nurses, teachers, business owners, civic leaders, a seamstress and a telephone operator. Their ideas have led to new educational and cultural opportunities while helping residents gain good health, a better environment and economic stability.

Craig was born in Braddock, PA in 1929 to parents who were early civil rights activists.

While in junior high school he got a part-time job in a hospital kitchen. After high school graduation, he worked in a steel mill and in restaurants. At one resort, he was inspired by the maître d’ who mentored him.

After serving in the Navy as a Korean War aviation radar technician, Craig moved to Norfolk and enrolled at Norfolk State University. His part-time jobs at area fine dining restaurants turned into a career. Craig was running his own restaurant at Cypress Point Country Club when FROM

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Donors’ generosity underpins strategic grants that enhance the work of area nonprofits, support key leadership initiatives and provide college scholarships for area students.

“The community foundation is the most outstanding supporting organization in our region,” says attorney Guilford Ware, who started practicing law in Norfolk in 1952 when the community foundation was in its infancy.

He has followed its growth and impact, helped clients become donors and in 1997 started his own endowed fund.

“You don’t just throw the money out there,” Ware says of the community foundation. “You follow through to make sure what is being accomplished.”

In 2010, The Norfolk Foundation merged with the neighboring Virginia Beach Foundation to create the Hampton Roads Community Foundation – the largest grant and scholarship provider in southeastern Virginia. Since 1950, the community foundation has put more than $301 million in grants and scholarships into action. In 2019, it distributed more than $19 million to support nonprofits, leadership initiatives and scholarship recipients. C O N T I N U E D P. 3

he joined the Town Point Club in 1988 as its maître d’.

In the community, Craig, the married father of three children, served as a Norfolk Ambassador and on The Attucks Theatre board. He was a member of the Norfolk Sports Club, Mount Gilead Missionary Baptist Church and Prince Hall Masons.

A joint resolution from the Senate and House of Delegates of Virginia honored Craig as “the epitome of excellence” and for his “unselfishly given services to the community.”

Today, Craig’s portrait watches over the “Craig’s on the River” dining room at the Town Point Club. And, each year, a Craig Fund grant from the community foundation helps move JDRF closer to a cure for juvenile diabetes.

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A few Community Foundation milestones over the past seven decades include:

1950s – Awards the first of its renewable college scholarships, with more than 4,400 students following over the decades.

1960s – Helps start Virginia Wesleyan University and buys a building for the Southside Boys & Girls Club.

1970s – Supports the creation of Eastern Virginia Medical School with a series of grants.

1980s – Provides grants to help launch ACCESS College

2010s – Helps build the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock

Environmental Center, Slover Library, Governor’s School for the Arts headquarters, Paradise Creek Nature Park and the Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center. Incubates and spins off Reinvent Hampton Roads, which supports regional economic competitiveness and Minus 9 to 5, an early childhood education and family initiative.

What’s ahead for the 2020s?

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation will

Foundation, Business Consortium for Arts Support, ForKids Inc., the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

• Continue to provide grants to nonprofits and scholarships

1990s – Helps build the Virginia Aquarium & Marine

• Expand civic leadership initiatives, including an emphasis

Science Center, expand the Children’s Museum of Virginia and provide startup funds for the Virginia Arts Festival.

2000s – Creates the Academy for Nonprofit Excellence in

partnership with Tidewater Community College and helps start the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation.

Helps fund multiple Virginia Supportive Housing apartment buildings to help formerly homeless people, build the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, expand the Chrysler Museum of Art, and build the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts.

for college students

on diversity, equity and inclusion.

• Stand ready to respond to emerging needs and challenges, such as COVID-19, that its founders could not have imagined in 1950.

• Forever steward donors’ charitable funds while honoring them as the generous people who make the community foundation’s work possible.

Visionaries for Change

is the newest giving circle of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. It was founded by Black business and civic leaders in 2019 and announced at the community foundation’s annual Black Philanthropy Month celebration in August. Together, members leverage their gifts to make the region better. They donate money to a pooled fund, and together they provide support for charitable causes in the Black community.

Visionaries aim to:

• Develop solutions for Black communities, • Leverage the power of endowment and

collective philanthropy – the giving of time, expertise and resources

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especially those experiencing economic distress

• Invest in organizations that build a healthy community, increasing everyone’s opportunity for success

Visionaries is well on its way to reaching its $500,000 endowment goal within three years.

Learn more about Visionaries for Change at visionariesforchange.org.

Visionaries for Change founding members attended the new giving circle’s kickoff during a Black Philanthropy Month celebration at The Attucks Theatre.

There are many reasons to join a giving circle. You can:

• Learn first-hand about philanthropy and community needs • Actively participate in grantmaking and nonprofit site visits • Get to know other community leaders and philanthropists • Attend educational and networking events H a m p to n R oa d s C o m m u n i t y Fo u n dat i o n

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Full Sail Ahead

Your Generosity Forever Helps Others

Endowments are powerful, everlasting and filled with hope. Every year, I am fortunate to help donors who choose to start an endowment to forever help our community.

By creating a permanently endowed fund, you can establish a lasting legacy. Over time, gifts will grow and benefit charitable causes forever. Most recently, we awarded COVID-19 relief grants to area nonprofits thanks to several field-of-interest funds, including the William A. and Jane M. Charters Fund and the Perry and Bunny Morgan Fund that both support essential human services.

One of my favorite endowment examples involves

It’s Time to Plan Your Legacy

• Tidewater Community College, where he served on the board

• Hampton University, which was his aunt’s alma mater, • Two family churches – Grace Episcopal Church and

Check out the new 70th anniversary edition of our bequest guide if you:

Basilica of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception.

• Enjoy donating to charity and

want to do that in a lasting way.

• Plan to update your will, IRA

beneficiary designation or estate plans.

• Want to be remembered forever and help people live better lives.

Order your free copy at bequests@hamptonroadscf.org or call Kay Stine at (757) 622-7951.

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Kay A. Stine Vice President for Development

Florence Smith who passed away in 1952. At that time, Florence entrusted the Hampton Roads Community Foundation with a $460,000 bequest to help Virginia students go to medical school. She did this to honor her late father, a Norfolk physician who had a medical practice on Granby Street.

The Foundation invested Florence’s generous gift, and within a year had 26 medical students receiving $23,000 in scholarships.

Over the decades, more than $2.5 million in Smith Scholarships has helped educate more than 750 physicians.

The fund still grows today, and is valued at more than $2.1 million.

Therefore, her memorial gift and generosity will go on forever helping future physicians.

Think of the good you can do in memory of a loved one.

The late Dr. Sam Coppage, Dr. Sam Coppage’s funds pay tribute to his who passed family including his aunt, Dr. Mildred Jordan away in 2014, (left), and his mother Constance Jordan. had his family in mind when he entrusted us with a charitable bequest.

Dr. Coppage, whose late father was a dentist and civil rights activist and whose late mother was a teacher, worked as an information technology professor at Old Dominion University.

When Dr. Coppage passed away at the age of 65, his charitable bequest created four funds named for him, his parents Dr. Samuel Coppage Sr. and Constance Jordan Coppage as well as his late aunt, Dr. Mildred Jordan, who was a college professor.

Dr. Coppage designated his charitable funds to provide annual grants to:

Read the new guide online at leaveabequest.org

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As the Coppage endowments grow, each year these four organizations that meant so much to the Coppage family will receive grants that increase in size over time.

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation has been helping people honor loved ones for 70 years now.

Through careful stewardship, wise investing and following our spending policy, the Community Foundation allows the bulk of donations to grow while doing good in the areas the donors specify.

Learn more at hamptonroadscf.org/giving-your-way

Panel Discussion

Program Urges Racial Reconciliation and Healing Photo by Jonathan McNair

Participants from left to right:

Henry L. Chambers Jr., panel moderator and law professor at the University of Richmond.

Lynne M. Jackson, great-great granddaughter of Dred Scott, the slave who sued for freedom in 1857.

Dr. Deborah DiCroce, president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation.

Charles Taney IV, great-great-great nephew of former Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who wrote the decision that denied Dred Scott his freedom.

COVID-19 Grants

In honor of National Day of Racial Healing on Jan. 21, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation hosted a panel discussion featuring descendants of plaintiffs and judges in two landmark 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court cases that denied basic civil rights to Black residents – the Dred Scott decision and Plessy v. Ferguson. Panelists discussed the impact of those cases as well as how the descendants work together to promote healing and understanding. Nearly 1,000 people attended the event at Norfolk State University, which served as an event partner along with Virginians for Reconciliation and Old Dominion University.

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who leads Virginians for Reconciliation .

Phoebe Ferguson, great-great-granddaughter of Louisiana

Judge John Howard Ferguson who ruled against Homer Plessy.

On appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ferguson’s decision was upheld.

Keith Plessy, whose great-grandfather was a cousin of Homer

Plessy, who in 1892 challenged having separate accommodations for Black and White railroad passengers.

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The Genieve Shelter , $10,000 for

$5,000 to increase the number of older adults with limited income receiving meals.

food and essential items.

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Mercy Chefs Inc. , $25,000 to prepare

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Greater Hampton Roads Diaper Bank , $5,000 for essential items for families.

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Hampton Roads Community Action Program Inc. , $10,000 for needs for families in the region.

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Help and Emergency Response Inc. , $10,000 for emergency shelter.

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Hope House Foundation Inc. , $8,000 to feed individuals living with developmental disabilities.

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Isle of Wight Christian Outreach Program Inc. , $25,000 for food and

Meals on Wheels of Chesapeake Inc. , ................................................. meals for people in need.

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Mercy Drops Dream Center , $20,000 for food to help Portsmouth residents.

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Oasis Commission on Social Ministry of Portsmouth/Chesapeake , $3,500 for

Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia , $15,000 to help older adults with

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Survivor Ventures , $16,050 for emergency shelter for survivors of human trafficking.

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The Up Center , $25,000 for professional mental health care.

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Urban League of Hampton Roads Inc. ,

food to help Portsmouth residents.

$20,000 for emergency shelter and rental assistance.

PIN Ministry , $7,560 for food and

Virginia Supportive Housing , $6,000

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The Salvation Army Hampton Roads Area Command , $25,000 for food and

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essential supplies for people in Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.

Wesley Community Service Center Inc. , $5,000 for food to help Portsmouth

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Joy Ministries , $15,000 for food and

The Salvation Army Portsmouth Corps , $7,500 to feed people in

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essential items for people in Isle of Wight County.

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Portsmouth.

Judeo-Christian Outreach Center Inc. ,

The Salvation Army Suffolk Corps ,

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$10,000 for food and emergency shelter.

$7,500 to feed people in Suffolk.

LGBT Life Center , $18,000 for meals for

Samaritan House Inc. , $20,000 for

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clients.

emergency shelter.

residents.

William A. Hunton YMCA , $10,000 for food to help Norfolk families.

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YWCA South Hampton Roads , $20,000

for emergency shelter.

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Recent Grants

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation recently awarded competitive grants to these nonprofits from its unrestricted and field-of-interest funds:

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Business Consortium for Arts Support ,

Nansemond River Preservation Alliance , $50,000 over two years to expand

Southside Boys & Girls Club , $150,000

$478,000 from seven donor funds focused on the arts, to help support 39 area cultural and performing arts groups.

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Chesapeake Humane Society , $200,000 from the Alfred L. Nicholson Fund for expansions that include dog kennel space, larger veterinary clinic, a conference room and more administrative space.

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Communities in Schools of Hampton Roads , $15,000 from the Harry F. Wall

Fund for Peninsula high schools to expand its Hampton High School program that helps students stay on track to graduate and succeed in life.

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Cornland School Foundation , $24,000

to move a historic former school so it can be preserved and open for tours. Cornland School is the last school building remaining in Chesapeake that served African-American students from the early 1900s to 1952. It is on both the National Historic Register and the Virginia Landmark Register. Funding is in part from the Vernon and Judith Cofer Fund.

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Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation , $500,000 over five years

to support the medical school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Funding is in part from the William A. Goldback Fund for medical education.

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Elizabeth River Project , $350,000 over

three years to help build the Louis & Pru Ryan Resilience Lab in Norfolk along the Lafayette River. The lab will be the regional nonprofit’s headquarters and will have a sea-level rise resilience park along the river.

Funding is in part from the Community Fund for the Environment, Inge Family Fund for the Environment, Willliam Thomas Reilly Fund and the Barbara Upton Wilson Fund.

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Help and Emergency Response Inc. (HER Shelter), $23,745 from the Sue Cook Winfrey Memorial Fund for abused and neglected children to to add a children’s program assistant, materials and activities.

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The Hurrah Players, $100,000 over two

years to add a second floor to the regional family theater’s Hugh R. Copeland Center in Norfolk’s NEON District. The expansion will include a television and film academy and costume storage.

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to all third graders in Suffolk Public Schools the Watershed Explorers program. This environmental education program teaches students about waterways and sea-level rise.

It is funded in part by the Barbara Upton Wilson Charitable Fund.

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Norfolk Botanical Garden , $15,000 from

the Julian Haden Gary and Margaret Savage Gary Fund for horticultural education for programs in the WOW Children’s Garden.

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Norfolk SPCA , $100,000 from the Alfred L. Nicholson Fund to upgrade veterinary clinic technology and improve the shelter facilities.

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Old Dominion University Educational Foundation , $500,000 over five years to

help develop Recover Hampton Roads, which will assist people from areas vulnerable to flooding and who are medically fragile quickly recover from natural disasters.

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Piano grants : $178,200 from the E.K.

Sloane Fund for pianos at Ballet Virginia International, Chesapeake Public Schools (for Hugo A. Owens Middle School), Christopher Newport University, the Hermitage Museum and Gardens, Newport News Public Schools (for Warwick High School), Suffolk Presbyterian Church, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (for Plaza Middle School) and Virginia Opera Association.

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Slover Library Foundation , $159,101 from the Landmark Fund for Slover Technology to upgrade interactive and multimedia displays throughout the library to help patrons better access materials and information.

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to help replace windows and renovate the nearly 40-year-old building’s classrooms, computer room, gym, kitchen and other areas. The club provides programs annually for 1,500 youth from Title I schools in the Berkeley and Campostella neighborhoods in Norfolk and the South Norfolk neighborhood in Chesapeake.

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Tidewater Friends of Foster Care Inc. , $80,000 from the Sue Cook Winfrey

Memorial Fund to expand its tutoring program for youth living in foster care in Hampton Roads to help them stay on grade level.

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Virginia Beach SPCA, $100,000 from the Alfred L. Nicholson Fund to complete its expanded yard where shelter dogs exercise.

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Virginia Stage Company, $157,425 to

upgrade the outdated sound system at the Wells Theatre as well as its antiquated system that uses pulleys and sandbags to change sets. Funds come from the William A. Goldback Fund for the performing arts and the H. Lee Kanter Endowment for the Performing Arts.

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VOLUNTEER Hampton Roads , $75,000

for the VolunTier Vision software program that matches area volunteers with nonprofit opportunities.

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Virginia Wesleyan University , $73,700 to upgrade the Fine Arts Building’s heating and cooling system and build a new kiln area in the building that houses ceramics, painting, photography, and sculpture studios and also provides rehearsal space for instrumental and choral programs.

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Check out our website: hamptonroadscf.org

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation’s website now features more inspirational stories and helpful information for making charitable gifts as well as applying for grant applications and scholarships. You will notice:

• More videos and stories highlighting the good taking place in The 757 region because of generous donors

• A section to help professional advisors work with potential donors

• A distinct navigational menu • Improved features to help protect your privacy

Tell us what you think by emailing info@hamptonroadscf.org.

Sharing Expertise

Training Helps Strengthen Area Nonprofits

Photo by Irene Aquino Davis

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation regularly helps nonprofit staff members keep up to date and gain expertise without them investing a lot of time and money.

The community foundation offers monthly 90-minute sessions that help area nonprofits apply for grant. There is no cost to attend, and the sessions are taught by foundation staff, including Dr. Linda Rice, vice president for grantmaking.

Session topics range from how to apply for grants to collecting data on your projects.

They are offered from 3-4:30 p.m. monthly.

Although sessions typically are held in our office, while COVID-19 remains a concern, they will be held online.

The Community Foundation staff enjoys hosting free training for non-profit staff members. Training continues during the COVID-19 crisis but is held online.

Here’s the schedule for the remaining sessions of the year: June 9 - Data & Research Resources: Health & Wellness Programming

August 11 - Ten Tips for Preparing a Grant Proposal

June 23 - How to Use Person-Centered Language

October 27 - Survey Development

July 14 - Logic Models: Powerful Tools for Change

November 10 - Logic Models: Powerful Tools for Change

September 8 - Making Outcomes Count

To provide optimal service, please register in advance for each session with Gina Kelly, grants manager, at gkelly@hamptonroadscf.org.

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The Hampton Roads Community Foundation has a history of underpinning nonprofits in their recovery efforts—most recently during the 2008 economic recession when we provided over $1 million in grants to 22 human service organizations over a two-year period. We have also partnered with United Way several times on targeted grant programs.

Any designated contributions we receive for the COVID-19 response will be used only for that purpose, augmenting our direct allocations.

By any measure, we live in an interesting, unprecedented time.

Rest assured that your community foundation will continue to help the region and its residents successfully navigate the journey.

Together, we’ll get through this.

Deborah M. DiCroce President and CEO

To support COVID-19 relief for area nonprofits, donate at bit.ly/COVID-19HamptonRoads or use the enclosed envelope and designate your gift for COVID-19 relief.

Your generosity will add to funds the Community Foundation has committed for relief efforts.

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Lynnwood Craig

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Fund Honors Club’s Maître d’

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an endowed charitable fund that provides annual grants to the Virginia chapter of JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) – a cause important to Craig.

“Unrestricted donations like those from the Lynnwood Craig Fund are critical in driving JDRF’s mission to accelerate a life As maître d’ of the Town Point Club in changing breakthrough to cure, prevent and Norfolk for 14 years, Lynnwood Craig always treat type 1 diabetes,” says Amber Mueller, said his goal was to make everyone who executive director of JDRF’s Virginia walks through the door feel like we opened Chapter. So far, the permanent Craig Fund the restaurant that night just for them. has provided nearly $14,000 in grants to Although he passed away in 2005, Craig JDRF while growing in value. is remembered fondly by colleagues and club Craig’s retirement was short-lived members for “doing everything with panache,” because he missed going to work. In 2003, says John Millicent, club manager from 1991 to new club manager Ali Halatayi re-hired 2000. “I learned from him how to treat guests Craig to greet guests and make his signature Lynnwood Craig’s fund helps find a and what it took to make people feel special,” tableside Caesar salad that was celebrated in cure for juvenile diabetes. says Millicent, manager of the Cavalier Golf & regional and national publications.

Yacht Club in Virginia Beach.

“When it comes to fine dining, Craig was the definition of In 2002, the Town Point Club made Craig feel extra special it.” Halatayi reflected. At the club, Craig oversaw guests’ entire when he retired. Staff surprised him by naming a dining room dining experience. He was renowned for his attention to detail, in his honor and starting the Lynnwood Craig Fund at the signature tuxedo and the etiquette lessons he taught new staff Hampton Roads Community Foundation. The club created and club members’ children.

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