Pathways is a funders collaborative designed to support the broad nonprofit sector through education, training and workshops, organizational assessments, tailored consultancies and capacity building grantmaking. Funding partners include the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, The Community Foundation, Mission Healthcare Foundation, Mission Hospital and United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County.
For detailed information, visit the Pathways website.
The Community Foundation helps more than 130 regional nonprofits by offering them expertise in administration and management of their investments. Working with the Foundation enables nonprofits to access institutional-caliber strategies in a cost-effective manner and complements their development efforts with our full range of offerings such as charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts. Nonprofits gain access to layers of supervision, diversity of investments, benchmarks and standards that an independent portfolio might not command on its own.
Our role as philanthropic advisor is one with a dual benefit to donors and nonprofits. Foundation staff members understand our region, know the nonprofit community and are informed regarding donor interest and capacity. We can and do bring worthy projects to the attention of donors when we see an opportunity. Because we know our donors and are familiar with their interests, this is an effective means of funding important community initiatives. Through these relationships, distributions from donor advised funds significantly supplement our discretionary grantmaking and can lead to support for projects that might have gone unfunded.
The Community Foundation supports the
North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, which was created by and for nonprofits, has 1,500 Members and works in all 100 counties of the state. The Center is a statewide network for board and staff members, an information center on effective practices and an advocate for the nonprofit sector as a whole. Its mission is to enrich North Carolina’s communities and economy through a strong nonprofit sector and nonprofit voice.
The Community Foundation offers a Community Room for use by nonprofit organizations and governmental entities.
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