Community Impact Fund Endowment

The Community Impact Endowment Fund is is a fund at Central Carolina Community Foundation. With the gifts given, the Foundation is able to positively impact the Midlands by enhancing lives in our 11-county service area. In past years, the fund has made grants to start innovative projects that connect residents to their community, serve those in need, and improve nonprofit capacity. Gifts to the endowment keep giving for generations to come.

The Foundation's Community Impact Endowment is comprised of generous gifts from visionary donors who knew that their unrestricted gifts would allow the Community Foundation to respond to the ever-changing needs and opportunities in our community for generations to come. These gifts have allowed the Foundation to create the Connected Communities grant initiative and projects like Midlands Gives.

The Connected Communities grant initiative aims to answer the questions, "What makes residents love where they live?" and "What draws them in and keeps them there?" The Foundation is working to improve our quality of life and make the Midlands more connected, vibrant, compassionate and engaged. We strive for a livable, equitable and just community for all. Through this grant program, the Foundation funds philanthropic projects - spearheaded by Midlands nonprofits - with the common goal of further connecting residents to the community and knitting the Midlands region together. Since its inception, the initiative has granted over $3 million to local projects.

This year's grant awards total $375,000 and the 14 Midlands nonprofit recipients are located in Calhoun, Fairfield, Lexington,