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Placer Community Foundation Funds
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Founders Fund - Strengthen PCF's Community Impact
Support PCF’s Impact in the Community
This fund was established by forward-thinking founders of Placer Community Foundation who wished to support the Foundation’s broad and varied impact. Your gift helps us provide leadership on key issues in the community and promote philanthropy throughout the region. Contribute to this fund to promote advocacy, education and collaboration around workforce housing, food delivery systems, homelessness, enrichment activities in the visual arts and more. When philanthropy can make a impact, it is PCF’s commitment to engage donors on these issues so that their giving provides lasting community change.
Arts Endowment Fund
Supporting Local Arts and Culture
Placer Community Foundation established an Arts Initiative to help develop, promote and encourage the arts in Placer County—for the benefit of our children and our local communities. Opportunities to support and sustain the arts abound—from music for young children to galleries and performance halls producing and exhibiting their works. Donate to this fund to help continue the work of the Arts Initiative or support an aspect of the arts important to you, your family and friends, or your local community.
Community Needs Fund
A gift to the Community Needs Fund addresses a broad range of local needs—including future needs that often cannot be anticipated at the time your gift is made. We evaluate all aspects of community well-being: arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, neighborhood revitalization, and more. The flexibility of your unrestricted gift enables our experienced community foundation program staff to respond to the community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.
Fire Relief Fund
Fire Relief Assistance
Working to direct resources during wildfire emergencies, the Placer Community Foundation established the Fire Relief Fund to address needs in the aftermath of a devastating fire within our county. Giving to this Fund offers flexible resources to organizations in our area so they can provide direct assistance to those who are most impacted.
Nonprofit Initiative Fund
Helping Local Nonprofits Thrive
Placer Community Foundation designed the Nonprofit Initiative to help local nonprofit organizations thrive and grow. Targeted to nonprofits serving residents throughout much of Placer County, the program helps organizations deliver higher quality, more sustainable, more valuable community services. By accessing the programming of this initiative, local nonprofit organizations more effectively assess progress, develop people, plan growth, and manage operations.
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Youth Development Fund
Support Local Youth
Everyone is aware of how much young people need support and opportunities to learn, contribute, lead, develop life skills, and relate to others. Too often, we hear bad news about teen challenges without celebrating the wonderful, smart, creative, bring-on-the-world talents young people contribute to our communities. The Youth Development Fund reaches many young people, offering positive role models, peer relationships and opportunities for youth to lead.
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Nonprofit Funds through PCF
Looking for a fund not listed here? Go to our Give Online page and there you will find a drop-down menu (Select a designation) that lists other funds you can make a contribution to online through Placer Community Foundation.
Arts Council of Placer County Endowment Fund
In 2020, the Arts Council of Placer County Endowment Fund was seeded through a gift made lovingly by bequest from Anu Vuorikoski. ACPC is seeking support from the community to help grow this fund with similar planned gifts made through Placer Community Foundation. Forward-thinkers like Anu will ensure the arts remain a constant source of creativity, inspiration and joy in our community.
Auburn Aviation Association Education Endowment Fund
Auburn State Theatre Endowment Fund
Boys & Girls Club of Placer County Endowment Fund
Child Advocates of Placer County Endowment Fund
Friends of the Roseville Public Library Endowment Fund
Contributions made to this fund provide long-term support of their efforts to enrich and engage the community around the libraries’ collection, programs and services.
Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Fund
PARC Legacy Fund
Placer Artists Tour Endowment Fund
Showcasing the vast array of talented visual artists throughout Placer County
The Placer Artists Tour is a legacy event held in our county since 1994. Originally managed by the Arts Council of Placer County, the Tour transitioned to a new, independent organization in 2021 with a focus on increasing visibility for the many talented artists in our county. Our team is dedicated to creating a stable, sustainable infrastructure that will carry this important arts organization forward for decades.
Placer County Library Fund
Placer Food Bank Endowment Fund
Placer Food Bank’s sights are set for the next 50 years and beyond to nourish families experiencing food insecurity and educate the community about hunger, while advocating for hunger relief. They established the Placer Food Bank Endowment Fund to support this critical work in perpetuity and are seeking community support to grow this fund through charitable bequests.
Placer Land Trust's Natural Wonders Forever Fund
The preservation of wild open spaces, farms and ranches, natural resources, and natural playgrounds is vital to our quality of life today and in the future. Protecting these landscapes is essential to successfully build and sustain connections among people, their community, and the natural environment.
PRIDE Industries Endowment Fund
One in five Americans has a disability, and two-thirds of working-age Americans with disabilities are unemployed. At PRIDE Industries, we know that a job means so much more than a paycheck; it also has the power to bring connection, community, and purpose.
With your support, we can expand employment opportunities for a significant number of Americans. When you donate to PRIDE Industries Endowment Fund, you directly help people with disabilities experience the dignity of a paycheck and the pride that comes with meaningful work. And it’s not just individuals who are helped. When more people are able to work, the entire community benefits socially and economically.
Rocklin Heritage Fund
Ron Stork River-Advocate Legacy Fund
For over 40 years, FOR has been nationally recognized as an authority on the adverse effects of dams on rivers and ecosystems and as the most effective grassroots organization in the country working on behalf of rivers. Contributions to this fund will support the preservation, restoration, and sustainability of the magnificent rivers of California.
Seniors First Endowment Fund
Sight Word Busters Endowment Fund
Sight Word Busters provides trained and caring volunteers to go into classrooms in Placer County and work individually with kindergarten and first grade students to ensure they master a progressive series of sight words needed for early reading success. Because the program is hands-on and tailored to each student’s needs, the risk of young children falling behind is dramatically reduced, teachers are able to efficiently deliver curriculum in their classrooms and the volunteers themselves feel immense gratification leading students through these important literacy milestones.
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