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Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier
Grant Opportunity: Loudoun Impact Fund
The Loudoun Impact Fund is now accepting proposals for its 2020 grant cycle; proposals are due October 21. Learn more about the grant guidelines and eligibility requirements. Also, if you are interested in becoming a grantmaker, it's not too late to join as a member!
Loudoun Community Cabinet Grants $160K in Covid Relief Funding
The newly formed Loudoun Community Cabinet announced the recipients of an inaugural grant cycle, awarding three Loudoun-based nonprofits $160,000 in COVID-19 relief funding: ECHO, Loudoun Literacy Council, and Volunteers of America Chesapeake and Carolinas for the Loudoun Homeless Services Center. Learn more about these high-impact grants.
Loudoun Serenity House Opens New Sober Living Facility for Women
This month Loudoun Serenity House opened Loudoun's first sober living facility for women. Over the last two years, the Community Foundation served as fiscal sponsor to Loudoun Serenity House as its founder Melissa Hinton and volunteers worked to form a nonprofit organization, raise funds, and make their vision of a sober living home for women in Loudoun become a reality. Learn more.
Fund Spotlight: Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy Endowment Fund
Recently Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy completed our Platinum Endowment Challenge, raising $10,000 to establish an endowment fund that was matched with another $10,000 for endowment. Learn more about the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy Endowment.
P.S. Last Chance to Join our Allyship Workshop!
Next week we wrap up our final session of Allyship, a workshop of our Racial Equity Framework program presented by Whitney Parnell, Founder and CEO of Service Never Sleeps. Open to nonprofit and local government staff, volunteers, and Board members, this intensive, fast-paced virtual training is designed to explore how to use individual and collective areas of privilege to advance racial justice. Register here.
Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties
Email: nicole@communityfoundationlf.org
Website: communityfoundationlf.org
Location: PO Box 342, Leesburg, VA 20178
Phone: 703-779-3505
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communityfoundationlf/
Twitter: @loudounfauquier