The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation set up a special fund to aid survivors on their physical and mental recoveries.
CACF began to seek ways to direct funds to individuals or for-profit businesses, which typically are not categories community foundations give to.
Examples have included grant money bolstering Latino education and leadership development nonprofit, Creciendo Juntos; collaboration with Community Investment Collaborative for entrepreneur Yolanda Coles Jones.
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The Charities Aid Foundation has set up a scheme, called the Social Enterprise Assist, that will render interest-free loans of up to £10,000 each to help social enterprise start-ups.