THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE

Your community. Your Foundation.
The Community Foundation of Orange is making the greater Orange community a vital and healthy place to live. With deep ties to the local community, we are helping to bring about thoughtful, effective change. We have a passion for improving the lives of others by sharing the gifts and talents we each possess. Through leveraged partnerships with our donors, we have been able to unlock opportunities for youth, families and since 2015, Veterans and Active Duty Military. During the pandemic, we doubled our giving in our KidsPlay™ program allowing even more at-risk youth to participate in recreational sports and the arts. We became involved with Orange's G.R.I.P. (Gang Reduction Intervention Partnership) Program, helping make a positive impact in the lives of those children, their families and their neighborhoods. We continued our support for higher education, providing funding for textbooks and tuition for low-income college students. We expanded our Field of Valor where funds were raised for local Veterans and Active Duty Military & their families, but good-old American pride and respect was instilled for those who are serving, who have served, and who paid the ultimate price by sacrificing their lives for our freedom was brought to the fore-front for a few days...and hopefully longer. In early 2022 we launched our ConnectOrangeCA (#COCA) non-profit RoundTables, bringing together leadership from local non-profits to collaborate on projects and programs in the City of Orange.

Looking forward, the CFO is working on strengthening our infrastructure to accommodate our growth, continuing to add new board members who bring varied backgrounds and expertise to our group. We are collaborating on new ways to encourage our youth to get involved in the community and affect change. We are working with other non-profit groups to provide safe and meaningful environments for after-school enrichment programs.