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THE FUND FOR GRAYS HARBOR

The work that makes and keeps a community healthy -- in Grays Harbor as in every community in the world -- is never just the work of one organization alone. 

What makes a community strong is never just its arts and cultural institutions, never just its schools, never just its hospitals, food banks, churches, or service groups. 

What makes a community strong is the work of all these organizations and all the people who work and serve through them -- together. 

To be healthy, a community must be whole.

A SMARTER WAY TO GIVE

 

The Fund for Grays Harbor is a tool that gives local donors an easy and efficient way to give back to their community as a whole. 

  • As a permanent endowment fund, The Fund for Grays Harbor is designed to support the most urgent local needs and the most promising local giving opportunities, forever. 

  • As an unrestricted fund, The Fund for Grays Harbor aims to support the broad needs of our community.  We welcome grant requests from all local nonprofit organizations serving Grays Harbor. 

  • As a community fund, The Fund for Grays Harbor is built by not one but many donors.  It is designed to grow over time through the shared generosity of many donors over many years, one gift at a time. 

  • As a grant making fund, The Fund for Grays Harbor is used to support our community grants program.  This program represents the heart of our community foundation's mission. 

For the donor who wishes to make a gift of lasting benefit to local communities, we believe The Fund for Grays Harbor offers a smarter way to give.  The Fund for Grays Harbor is smarter first because gifts to the Fund are used for the long-term support of the local community, and second because the Fund is designed with the flexibility to find relevance in a changing world. 

Indeed, no one knows what the needs of our community will be in 20, 50 or 100 years.  Yet we do know that local communities will inevitably change and face new challenges.  If local leaders are to provide local solutions to local problems, they will need the local resources to do so. 

It is our aim to build just such a source of charitable capital for the long term health and stability of the communities of Grays Harbor County.  We call it The Fund for Grays Harbor.

COMMON QUESTIONS

  • How is The Fund for Grays Harbor used?  →  Read the guidelines for our community grants program.

  • Who decides what the Fund supports?  →  Our board of directors makes the final decisions, but our grants committee reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the board. 

  • Who has contributed to the Fund?  →  Read our list of donors.

  • How can the Fund remain permanent?  →  Read "What is an endowment?" in our page of Frequently Asked Questions.

  • What if I want to support something more specific, such as a specific town or neighborhood?  →  An area of interest gift may be more appropriate for donors interested in a particular area within Grays Harbor or a particular area of need within our county. 

  • If you have another question, please contact us.

 

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Grays Harbor Community Foundation is a tax-exempt public charity dedicated to serving the broad needs of Grays Harbor County in Washington State.  We are a member of the Council on Foundations; we have committed ourselves to the National Standards for U.S. community foundations; we are audited annually; and we consider ourselves accountable to the public upon whom we depend for support.

We thank Darrell Westmoreland, Kevin Hong, Ellen Pickell, and the Polson Museum for providing the photographs used in this website.  We'd like to showcase the work of more local photographers and artists on this website and in our publications.  Please contact us if you'd like to help. 

Mail:        707 J Street  |  P.O. Box 615  |  Hoquiam, WA  98550
Email:      info@gh-cf.org
Phone:     360.532.1600
Fax:         360.532.8111
Last modified: 08/21/06