Sustainable Impact

Complex challenges require innovative solutions. The community foundation partners with local individuals, nonprofits, businesses and governments to create positive and lasting change.

Philanthropy in Action

The decisions that shape our community are increasingly being made locally. The Community Foundation harnesses the power of local philanthropy to foster new ways of working together.

Deep Roots

For more than five decades, the Community Foundation has cultivated strong relationships and local expertise to improve the quality of life for people throughout our region.

Enriching Community

The Community Foundation proudly connects nonprofit organizations and agencies working across our region with critical resources and opportunities made possible by the generosity of local donors.

Deep Roots

For more than five decades, the Community Foundation has cultivated strong relationships and local expertise to improve the quality of life for people throughout our region.

Enriching Community

The Community Foundation proudly connects nonprofit organizations and agencies working across our region with critical resources and opportunities made possible by the generosity of local donors.

Philanthropy in Action

The decisions that shape our community are increasingly being made locally. The Community Foundation harnesses the power of local philanthropy to foster new ways of working together.

Sustainable Impact

Complex challenges require innovative solutions. The community foundation partners with local individuals, nonprofits, businesses and governments to create positive and lasting change.

The Community Foundation works to improve the quality of life in the Charlottesville area.

We advance community engagement and philanthropic efforts to create positive regional impact.

The Foundation achieves impact through focused philanthropic activity and partnerships.

Latest News

Foundation President Brennan Gould’s Op-Ed Published Around the Country

In the week before the one-year anniversary of the August “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, an op-ed titled "Healing Our Charlottesville" by Community Foundation President Brennan Gould appeared in national news markets, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Oakland and Washington, DC. 

Heal Charlottesville Grants

On June 28, 2018, the Community Foundation announced grants totaling $1 million to 42 individuals, organizations and business leaders from its Heal Charlottesville and Concert for Charlottesville Funds, and from an anonymous donor. The Funds were created in response to the terror and violence caused by a series of white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville last summer. Read more.

Community Foundation Annual Luncheon

Days before being named President and CEO of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Brennan Gould spoke about the extraordinary challenges Charlottesville and the Foundation faced after the hatred and violence of last August. Elaborating on the June 6 lunch's theme of "Taking a Deeper Look," Gould provided insight into the Foundation's journey during the past year as it responded to those events. A transcript of Gould's remarks is available here.

Brennan Gould Named President and CEO

The Board of Directors of Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is pleased to announce the promotion of Brennan Gould as President & Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Currently Director of Programs, Gould has been with CACF since 2010. “We couldn’t be more thrilled that someone as respected and engaged across the community as Brennan Gould prevailed in our extensive CEO search,” noted CACF’s board chair Jay Kessler, who also chaired the seven-person CEO search committee. Read more.

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