Watertown Area Community Foundation



The Watertown Area Community Foundation, established in 1979, promotes philanthropy, receives and administers charitable gifts and invests in programs that improve the quality of life in Watertown by promoting charity, education and culture in the community.

The Watertown Area Community Foundation encourages philanthropy at all levels, provides donor services and responds to the ever-changing needs and opportunities in the community.

Assets and Giving for Watertown Area Community Foundation

Assets

2019 - 23,707,895
2018 - 19,901,073
2017 - 18,893,535
Domestic Grants

2019 - 1,266,572
2018 - 639,482


    

Recent News from Watertown Area Community Foundation


Library to lend bicycles, helmets to visitors
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

Thanks to grants from the Watertown Area Community Foundation, the bike-lending program will allow patrons to check out bikes and helmets for...more

Scholarships honor the past and the future
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

This simple statement was made by Velma Vincent (deceased) as the Watertown Area Community Foundation's first donor to set up a scholarship...more

WACF Trivia Quiz
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

WACF Trivia Quiz. As we reminisce about grants awarded by the Watertown Area Community Foundation which have focused on history,...more

Community Foundation helps those who help others
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

Community Foundation helps those who help others ... and an honor for the Watertown Area Community Foundation to partner with these groups...more

Truly a gift that keeps on giving
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation, Watertown Community Foundation

Since its beginnings 40 years ago, the Watertown Community Foundation has been blessed with many gifts, and Executive Director Jan DeBerg...more

40 years of backing our youth
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars have been awarded by the Watertown Area Community Foundation in grants for youth. The Boys &...more

Looking for nominations for outstanding volunteers
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

This month, however, the Watertown Area Community Foundation joins the Watertown Volunteer Center in celebrating some unsung heroes...more

Foundation needs both restricted and unrestricted gifts
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

At the Watertown Area Community Foundation, unrestricted gifts are used to meet the community's ever-changing and most pressing...more

Board service a family tradition
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

When Laurie Benson joined the Watertown Area Community Foundation Board in 2006, she was following in the footsteps of her late father,...more

Keeping reading alive for Watertown's children
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

When the Sharps established a fund at the Watertown Area Community Foundation, they did so with reading as one of their focuses. The...more



Social Enterprise Network Sites


The position young people are dealt with can be complex, and yet the entire economic system is still focused for an age that’s almost gone astray. The solution? Promoting social enterprise and getting these young people integrated into work.




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