Raise the region | Thursday, May 29, 2025

Raise the region
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Our new video: Rooted in Community

By avorio / December 16, 2016 / 0 Comments

How do community foundations strengthen their communities through philanthropy? View this short video to see how the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region is helping protect the farms that … Read more

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Community Foundation Receives $7.25 Million Gift for Creation of Rubin Community Health Fund; Gift is one of the largest in Community Foundation’s history

By avorio / November 30, 2016 / 0 Comments

**Nonprofit friends: Interested in receiving notices about grant funding opportunities from the Rubin Community Health Fund? Join our e-mail list by clicking here!** The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital … Read more

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Help the Community Foundation win a Times Union ad grant!

By avorio / November 18, 2016 / 0 Comments

Friends, the Community Foundation is in the running to win one of 10 advertising grants from the Times Union. This advertising grant will help us tell our story in the … Read more

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Times Union Announces the Big $100,000 Giveaway

By avorio / November 16, 2016 / 0 Comments

On November 17, the Times Union will publish a special section on philanthropy, Capital Region Gives. Nonprofits and the businesses that support them will be the editorial focus of the … Read more

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Community Foundation’s ACCVB Hospitality Grant Fund Awards $50,000+ to Local Nonprofits

By avorio / November 14, 2016 / 0 Comments

The Albany County Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACCVB) Foundation announced $50,500 in funding for latest round of Hospitality Grant recipients. To date, the three-year old program has awarded $212,000 to … Read more

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Grantee Spotlight: "If It Weren’t for the Community Foundation, We Wouldn’t Be Here"

By avorio / September 29, 2016 / 0 Comments

At the June 2016 press conference announcing a new, major partnership with Albany Medical Center, Baby Institute executive director Noelene Smith, MSW, began her remarks by stating, “If it weren’t … Read more

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Remembering J. Spencer Standish

By avorio / September 26, 2016 / 0 Comments

The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region remembers with deep gratitude and an even greater sense of loss, our friend J. Spencer Standish who passed away on Thursday, September … Read more

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Times Union Capital Region Gives: Big $100,000 Give-Away

By avorio / September 19, 2016 / 0 Comments

The Times Union is proud to present 2016 Capital Region Gives and the Big $100,000 Give-Away. Through this special promotion, ten participating Capital Region nonprofit organizations will have the opportunity … Read more

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Upcoming Nonprofit Works Training

By avorio / September 8, 2016 / 0 Comments

Join Nonprofit Works in Albany on October 7 from 9:00 a.m. to noon for: Mission-Driven Communications This workshop provides nonprofit organizations with an introduction to the basic elements of a … Read more

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Nonprofits: Register now for the 2016-2017 Capacity Building Program

By avorio / August 22, 2016 / 0 Comments

This program made possible with funding support from Albany Guardian Society  ·  Bender Family Foundation  ·  The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region KeyBank Foundation  ·  The Lincoln Fund  … Read more

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