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12 Grant Recipients Awarded $1.8 Million

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded in December 2012 more than $1.8 million in grants to 12 nonprofits working in southeastern Virginia. The largest grant was $500,000 to the Slover Library Foundation to help build a new main library in downtown Norfolk. Click here to learn about the nonprofits receiving grants in December 2012.

DiCroce Named Foundation President

Dr. Deborah DiCroce will become the new president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation on March 1. She will succeed Angelica D. Light, who is retiring after heading the foundation for nearly 13 years. Dr. DiCroce has been president of Tidewater Community Foundation since 1998. The foundation’s board of directors selected Dr. DiCroce from more than 100 applicants after conducting a nationwide search. Click here to read more about her.

Foundation to Honor Anne Shumadine

Anne B. Shumadine, chairman and founder of Signature, will be honored on November 10 as the recipient of the Barron F. Black Community Builder Award. The Hampton Roads Community Foundation presents the award each fall to a professional advisor who helps improve the Hampton Roads region and iinspires others to be generous. Shumadine, an attorney who heads an independent wealth management firm, will be honored at a reception at the Town Point Club. She will get to recommend a $5,000 grant to an organization she chooses.

 

$538,291 in Grants to Help Improve Health and Human Services

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded $538,291 in grants to eight regional nonprofit organizations in September 2011. This round of grants focused on health and human service organizations helping people in Hampton Roads. Click here to learn about the eight grant recipients.

Partners Award $200,000 in Grants to Help Students

The Community Leadership Partners of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded $200,000 in grants to 25 organizations that provide programs for area students when they are not in school. The Partners are active philanthropists who pool their resources and select a grant focus each year. Click here to see the 2011 grant recipients.

Beach Fund Grants Focus on Lake Edward Children

The Beach Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded $15,000 in grants to three organizations that provide programs to help children living in the Lake Edward neighborhood of Virginia Beach. This is the second year that the Beach Fund, a group of young philanthropists, has focused on helping children living in one of Hampton Roads' poorest neighborhoods. Click here to see the 2011 grrant recipients.

$1.8 Million in Grants Help Students, Nonprofits

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded in June 2011more than $1.8 millon in grants and scholarships. Recipients include 351 college students, primarily from Hampton Roads, who will attend college in 2011-12 with help from $928,240 in scholarships. In addition, the YMCA of South Hampton Roads received a $500,000 grant to help build a new YMCA in Norfolk's Park Place neighborhood and nine organizations received $241,722 in E.K. Sloane Fund grants to purchase pianos. Click here for details.

 

$1.9 Million in Grants to Help 8 Organizations

The Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded a $1 million, two-year grant to Smart Beginnings South Hampton Roads in April 2011. The grant will provide operating support for Smart Beginnings as it pilots a statewide quality rating and improvement system for home childcare providers.

Smart Beginnings was among 8 nonprofits awarded more than $1.9 million during the Foundation's first round of grants for 2011. Click here to learn about additional grants.