Our Mission, Work, and Beliefs
Mission
The Mission of the Essex County Community Foundation is:
"to help you help your community".
Our Work
We support local philanthropic effort by:
- Building an endowment of charitable funds for the benefit of Essex County
- Providing a cost-effective, tax-efficient way for donors to invest in Essex County
- Assisting donors reach their philanthropic goals
- Making available a variety of charitable planned giving vehicles to donors
- Administering the efficient disbursement of a donor’s charitable funds, without the costs and management requirements of a private foundation
- Promoting and enabling collaboration between nonprofits
We offer all the philanthropic, grantmaking, financial, and tax expertise needed to engage in effective, inspired charitable giving. The Foundation stewards 80 charitable funds and we have awarded over $5 million in grants since inception to local organizations.
In promoting collaboration the following programs have been established and are supported by ECCF:
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