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Meeting ever-changing community needs.
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.

 

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Support Our Operation to Help Sustain PCF’s Local Philanthropy
This permanently endowed administrative fund supports the operations of Placer Community Foundation forever. Your gift would help us provide resources to strengthen nonprofits, provide leadership and convening to address key issues in the community, and promote philanthropy throughout the region.

 

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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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Supporting Community Leadership
The Placer Community Foundation stays abreast of the issues and activities affecting our region. It is our commitment to provide donors with quality information so they can best direct their philanthropy for greater impact. Contribute to this fund to address issues such as workforce housing, food delivery systems, homelessness, and enrichment activities in the visual arts.

 

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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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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.

 

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Emergency Assistance
Working to direct resources during times of crisis, the Placer Community Foundation established a Disaster Relief Fund to address needs in the aftermath of a disaster within our county. Currently, the Disaster Relief Fund is serving as the “COVID-19 Response Fund” to address the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in the community. Giving to this Fund offers flexible resources to organizations in our area so they can provide critical services to those who are disproportionately impacted by coronavirus and the economic consequences of this outbreak.

 

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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.

 

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Designed to provide ongoing support to libraries throughout the Placer County library system, this fund will support the purchase of additional resource materials, engage in special projects and extend the library system’s outreach into our community.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Today, one-in-five Americans have a disability, and two-thirds of working age Americans with disabilities are unemployed. People with disabilities represent the single largest and most diverse minority in the country. Donations to PRIDE Industries support a wide spectrum of services that help people overcome employment obstacles and empower them to lead productive, independent lives as contributing members of their communities.

 

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In 2011 a group of community-minded individuals, committed to safeguarding the very qualities that make the City of Rocklin unique, partnered with the Placer Community Foundation to establish an endowed fund that will forever support the education and preservation of Rocklin’s history.

 

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Established to honor the long-time river advocacy work of Ron Stork, this endowed fund supports the work of Friends of the River (FOR).

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.

 

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Seniors First strives to keep Placer County senior citizens living independently and comfortably in their homes for as long as possible. Your gift to their fund provides permanent support of programs and services greatly needed for our county’s growing senior population.

 

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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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