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of "social capital" and positive, long-term change in the community of High Point. We consider it an honor and a privilege to
work with each of you to achieve your philanthropic vision and make High Point a healthy and prosperous community today and forever...
Description - These are funds from which the Foundation's Board, or specific grants committee, is free to make
grants within the defined field of interest. Grants are made from the fund in accordance with the Foundation's payout policy.
Existing Field of Interest Funds include:
The Violet Hutchens Children's Education Fund - General fund for children's education that makes grants in conjuction with the Foundation's Annual Grants Program.
Cory McInnis Compassion in Education Fund - Provides funds to underwrite education projects in the High Point public schools. Grants are made in conjunction with the Foundation's Annual Grants Program.
Heart of High Point Fund - Established to support nonprofit organizations serving basic needs in the community; specifically food, shelter, clothing, medical care and rehabilitation. Grant requests are reviewed by the Heart of High Point Committee and grants are made year-round to eligible organizations.
City of High Point Public Schools' Principals' Discretionary Needs Fund - Established to support needs in High Point public schools that are not covered by the budget. Principals can submit a request for last resort funding to the Foundation for review by the Principals' Fund Committee.
**Click here for the HPPF grant request form. Save the form to your computer before you fill it out. You will then be able to send it back to us as an attachment. Please send to hppf@hpcommunityfoundation.org.
Selling Points - A donor with a particular interest can be sure that his or her gift will support only that category of interest.
Requirements to Create a Fund - Because this is an endowment from which separate grants will be made, it must generate sufficient income to warrant and sustain such a granting program. Therefore, this type of fund should be established with an individual gift of, or collective intent to raise, at least $250,000.
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Description - Scholarship programs come in many forms with many intents. Because such scholarships can be very labor intensive, they should be created in consultation with the Foundation. The Foundation may be limited in its flexibility in accepting scholarship programs to administer depending on its administrative capacity.
The Community Foundation currently offers scholarship funds in which the Foundation reviews the propriety of process used by an outside (usually self perpetuated) group prior to the Foundation awarding the scholarship.
Selling Points - Scholarship funds are major programs at three of the top five community foundations in North Carolina. They are typically major programs in most well established community foundations. A community foundation can bring critical review of applications to bear on a given fund without becoming engaged in the politics of the institution to which that individual may be going.
Requirements to Create a Fund - At this time the Foundation does not have a general scholarship fund. Therefore, a minimum of $25,000 is required to establish a separately administered scholarship program at the Foundation.
Description - Organizational Endowment Fundis are flexible instruments which provides Foundation management for the endowments of nonprofit and for-profit organizations. It allows those organizations access to the principal in their endowments under certain, very specific circumstances.
One or several endowments may be established by an organization to address different needs.
Selling Points - Having a third party manage an organization's endowment can provide assurances to donors that promises will be kept regarding the use of the income from that endowment over time. Also, the Foundation has professional management which might not be available to organizations with endowments whose principal would either not attract professional management or would not be large enough to be cost effective.
Requirements to Create a Fund - An Organization Endowment may be established at the Foundation with a commitment of $7,500. This low threshold was created to encourage small nonprofit organizations to begin building an endowment and to help them with marketing that effort.
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