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Our Mission
The mission of The Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation (CCGF) is to strengthen our communities through engaged philanthropy. CCGF connects people who care with causes that matter in Camden, Glynn, and McIntosh counties along Georgia's coast.
CCGF is a researcher, educator, funding counselor, community steward, and grantmaker. More importantly, we serve as thoughtful matchmakers between the philanthropic desires of our donors and areas of need, from local to global.
The Difference Between Charity and Philanthropy
The distinction between charity and philanthropy is important. While charity responds, philanthropy anticipates; charity is emotional, philanthropy is intellectual; charity seeks to solve, philanthropy seeks to prevent; charity is short-term, philanthropy is long-term; charity is about today, philanthropy is about tomorrow.
CCGF is a hybrid of charity and philanthropy. While the financial base of private foundations comes from a single source, we derive our support from an array of donors. Where most non-profit charities focus on a single issue or area of interest, CCGF works with donors to invest in a variety of issues, promoting a full range of community interests.
You Don't Give To Us, You Give Through US
CCGF is not the beneficiary of donor donations. We are a conduit, a community-focused catalyst, a portal, and a launch point for strategic and sustained philanthropy that serves the greater good.
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History
In 2005, led by founding chair Bill Jones III, a small group of local philanthropic visionaries established a community foundation to serve Coastal Georgia. More than 60 local families and foundations came together to create The Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation in hopes of ensuring its work would be “For Good, Forever.”
Today, CCGF has grown to approximately $50 million in assets, representing over 100 funds, governed by 19 board members. CCGF employs three full time and two part time staff. Current programs include an annual competitive grant cycle for nonprofits across the three-county region, which includes Camden, Glynn, and McIntosh counties.
We pay tribute to those Founders who provided the vision, commitment, and financial leadership to establish CCGF:
| Mrs. Forrest Adair, III Mr. & Mrs. John G. Altston Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Benefield Mr. & Mrs. James Bishop, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. James Blanchard Mr. & Mrs. Claude H. Booker, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Morton E. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Jim Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Castellini Frederick E. & Helen Dykes Cooper Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Lovick Corn Mr. & Mrs. Frank DeLoach, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jack Dinos Mr. & Mrs. Don Dutson Mrs. Martha Brumley Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Brad Foster Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover Mr. & Mrs. Jerry W. Harper Mr. & Mrs. Bob Hatcher Mr. & Mrs. William Heck Mr. & Mrs. Reginald Jackson In Memory of Mr. Howard Jones Mr. & Mrs. Bill Jones, III Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kelly Mr. & Mrs. James Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. David Kuntz Mr. & Mrs. C. Vance Leavy Mr. & Mrs. Davis Love, III Mr. & Mrs. James Lowrey Mr. & Mrs. John Ludwig | Mr. & Mrs. James V. Manning Mr. & Mrs. Dennie McCrary Mr. William A. McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Walter McNeely Mr. & Mrs. Russ Mentzer Mr. & Mrs. Reg Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Myers Mr. & Mrs. Mac Nease Mr. & Mrs. Pat Pittard Mr. & Mrs. M. E. Ralston Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Redd Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Reeves Mr. & Mrs. Lee Richards Mr. & Mrs. Dan Robitaille Mr. & Mrs. John Rogers Mrs. E. Clayton Shelhoss Mrs. Frances Shropshire Mr. & Mrs. Billy Shuman John L. Simms Family Mr. & Mrs. Ben T. Slade, III Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Small Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Smith, Jr. Mr. Taylor W. Smith St. Marys United Methodist Church Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William J. Stembler Mr. & Mrs. Tom Sublett Mr. & Mrs. Rees Sumerford Mrs. Eloise Bailey Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Dick Vieser Ms. Susan Corn Wainright Mr. & Mrs. Bill Walker Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Yellowlees |