The Adams County Community Foundation is making a difference in Adams County every day.
Our focus:
- Helping nonprofits become efficient and effective at what they do,
- Making a meaningful and sustained difference in people’s lives,
- Building a healthier community by increasing social capital—the connections between people.
Our tools:
- Grantmaking: Making grants to effective nonprofit organizations, from the charitable funds entrusted to us by scores of donors who care deeply about their community.
- Initiatives: Creating and operating special program initiatives to fill a gap or try out a new idea, like the Giving Spree, Adams County’s day of giving, or the At Home in Adams County initiative, a partnership of residents, business, public and private nonprofits working together to address complex, interrelated issues facing Adams County residents: safe, affordable housing, transportation, and workforce development.
- Advocacy: Using our relationships and influence to address unfair policies and systems. For example, we led a statewide legislative effort to end scholarship displacement, the practice of colleges reducing a student’s financial aid by the amount of the student’s private scholarship. Banning this practice will mean that our scholarship donors’ intention of helping students achieve their educational goals will be carried out effectively and transparently.
Your gift to the Fund for Adams County supports our grantmaking, initiatives and advocacy.