Founded originally as the Norfolk Foundation, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation began in 1950 with total donations of $2,350. The foundation has always had a regional focus - giving scholarships and grants across southeastern Virginia to ambitious students and essential nonprofits.
Over the past 70 years we have put more than $301 million into action through grants and scholarships, more than $19 million in 2019 alone.
Reinvent Hampton Roads is an outgrowth of a community leadership initiative of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation that focused on regional economic competitiveness. Today, as a separate...more
Deborah DiCroce is used to the position of leader. She spent 35 years in higher education, with 14 of them as the president of Tidewater Community College, before she became the president and CEO of...more
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation recently awarded more than $750,000 in grants to 10 nonprofit organizations during its first round of 2018 community grant funding. Organizations awarded grants...more
While events like 757 Launch are milestones on their own, they are also amplifying the momentum generated by the early work of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, 757 Angels, Old Dominion...more
Donor-advised funds began in the 1930s, but in recent years these funds have become the fastest growing vehicle in philanthropy. Contributions to the funds grew at three times the rate of total...more
ForKids has also received leadership support from Landmark Foundation, the Obici Healthcare Foundation, TowneBank, Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Birdsong Peanuts and an active Suffolk Campaign...more
Textbooks for Change, a London-based social enterprise that has obtained the B Corporation seal for positive social and environmental impact, is seeking investors that would be helping the company expand.