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WELCOME
The Oak
Park-River Forest Community Foundation is a unique resource
for you, for professional financial advisors, and for
nonprofits serving
residents. Together, we steward the
community toward sustainability
and well-being.
Contributions
to
the Communityworks Fund will be
matched by the Grand Victoria Foundation through September 30,
2011. The Fund will provide grants that help
insure the success of all youth, an environmentally
sustainable community, and the development of tomorrow's
community leaders today.
We invite you to explore the possibilities when we all
work together.
Communityworks Matching Campaign
Update
Community Leadership Program
With the support of the Oak Park
River Forest Community Foundation and Communityworks , Dominican
University’s Brennan School of Business presents the
Oak Park River Forest Community Leadership
Program. This program targets the professional
and personal development of emerging and existing leaders
in Oak Park and River Forest.
Click
here for more
information
and
an application.
Application deadline is
August 31, 2010.
The Oak Park-River Forest
Community Foundation:
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is a charitable organization managing endowed funds to improve the lives of people in Oak Park-River Forest and other communities.
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convenes community members to
address opportunities and aspirations. Currently, our priorities are the success of all youth, environmental sustainability and community leadership development.
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combines charitable gifts with community knowledge, leadership and the ability to attract resources to provide grants and scholarships.
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makes it easy for you to establish charitable funds, donate to existing funds, remember a loved one with a memorial gift or support a special project or field of interest.
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manages more than 90 funds and endowments entrusted to our care Today, charitable assets we manage
total more than $15 million.
We now process credit card and
debit card donations
directly by phone! To make a
donation with your credit or debit card, please call Cathy
Craddock at 708-848-1560.
Be sure to check out
our other publications.
Crystal Travel Grant
Information is on our
Scholarships
Page.
Click here for
links to business partners supporting our work.
See who received our
first Excellence in Philanthropy
Awards in
2010.
Confirmed in Compliance with National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations
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