Cobb Community Foundation Inc

Match magic: cobb community foundation's match magic giveathon provided 25 local nonprofits with resources to leverage their fundraising efforts during a 2-week period ending on december 3, 2024. Selected from 42 applicants, 25 participating organizations received training, templates, and marketing tools to effectively share their stories and engage supporters. With support from ccf, these organizations implemented coordinated campaigns across email, social media, newsletters, and media outlets. As a result, they raised $703,000 to support critical services in food, housing, education, safety, and healthcare. The initiative not only generated funds but also helped nonprofits expand their reach and donor base. Participating organizations received 100% of the dollars they raised (less credit card processing fees) plus a pro-rata portion of a $108,000 match pool raised by ccf.

Strategic initiatives: cobb community foundation is focusing our discretionary community grantmaking on two key areas: nonprofit capacity building and community problem-solving. In addition to the resources and tools provided during match magic, and ccf and united way of greater atlanta nw metro region have partnered to identify, develop and fund programs that would be most beneficial to selected organizations. In addition to jointly offering a nonprofit learning series, ccf and united way also partnered with kennesaw state university to fund participation in the certified nonprofit professional program, the only nationally recognized credential in nonprofit management that provides learning and real-world experience. The credential is obtained through a 6-month online course plus in-person workshops, facilitated and hosted by ksu. Following completion of the program and workshops, each participant will received a $10,000 unrestricted grant. The program is being repeated in 2025.capacity building grants totalled $95,040 in 2024.to determine community issues in most need of solving, ccf will be updating its 2019 cobb human needs assessment with a new initiative called vital signs. Until this study is complete, we are continuing our focus on childcare and early learning ($54,690 in grants in 2024), mental health and wellness ($46,921 in grants), and economic mobility ($25,000 in grants). In addition to grants made to organizations providing these services, grants have also been made to newly established field of interest funds to ensure that funding is available for these purposes in the as well as to provide vehicles for third-party contributions in support of these causes. Finally, ccf has also provided support hyper-locally with mini-grants. The cumulative amount distributed for these in 2024 was $19,393.

Scholarships: cobb community foundation held 15 scholarship funds in 2024. These funds were established by families and friends in memory of loved ones, by companies for their employees and dependents of employees, and by area social clubs and organizations. Seventy-seven students received scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 and totaling $239,875.

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