Community Grants Program (Community Foundation for the CSRA)

Community Grants Program (Community Foundation for the CSRA) is sponsored by Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area (CFCSRA). This program fuels the work of nonprofits creating meaningful change across the CSRA region, including programs for youth enrichment, mentoring, leadership development, and life skills.

Community Grants | Community Foundation for the CSRA The Community Foundation for the CSRA is setting our most ambitious goal yet: a campaign to raise $1 Million in 2027 to fuel local nonprofits and transform lives across the CSRA. We invite you to help us weave passion into purpose. Each and every thread helps strengthen our community.

Our goal is to ensure the fabric of the CSRA remains unbreakable and prove that while there are a million ways to give, there is only one way to grow: together. We need your support to reach this milestone and strengthen our community for all. Weaving passion into purpose What does community mean to you?

Our Common Thread maps the values that connect us all, but those threads come to life through the nonprofits strengthening our communities every day. The organizations featured below represent our 2026 Community Grants recipients. Each one weaving hope, opportunity, and lasting impact across the CSRA.

As you explore their names, imagine the role your generosity can play. By giving today, you weave your own thread into the future of our region, helping us reach our 2027 goal of raising $1 million so local nonprofits can continue serving our communities with creativity, care, and courage. Tell us what Community means to you, join the movement and become a part of something bigger.

Every act of generosity adds strength to the communities we share. When donors, nonprofits, businesses, and neighbors come together, individual efforts become something larger: a connected network of support, opportunity, and impact across your community and the CSRA. Add your thread to the work being done every day to help our region grow stronger, more resilient, and more connected for generations to come.

A Stronger Community Takes All of Us For 30 years, the Community Foundation for the CSRA has connected generosity with local organizations that understand the needs of our region best. Now, we’re reimagining Community Grants as a year-round movement that brings our community together to give, serve, share stories, and create lasting impact.

Your time and expertise can help strengthen the Community Grants Program and support nonprofits making a difference throughout the CSRA. Every gift matters, no matter how small. Community giving allows neighbors across the CSRA to collectively support the nonprofits and programs creating meaningful change close to home.

Together, small acts of generosity create lasting impact. Fundholders already play an important role in strengthening the CSRA. Additional support for the Community Grants Program helps expand opportunities for nonprofits across the region and allows your generosity to reach even further.

A New Chapter for a Stronger Region Across the CSRA, neighbors are doing extraordinary work every day. They’re feeding families, mentoring students, protecting rivers, giving voices to the voiceless, and creating new possibilities for the future. At the heart of much of this work is a vibrant network of nonprofits serving our communities with bold creativity, compassion, and resilience year after year.

These organizations are not working alone. Together, thread by thread, they form a connected community response as strong and dynamic as the people it serves. In moments of crisis, from natural disasters to economic hardship, the CSRA has shown time and again what’s possible when people come together.

Philanthropy rises. Neighbors step forward. Communities respond with generosity and care.

What if we embraced that same spirit of shared purpose every day, not only in moments of urgency, but in the ongoing work of building a stronger, more connected region? That is the vision for the next chapter of the Community Grants Program: a year-round celebration of generosity, collaboration, and collective impact across the CSRA. Nonprofits are the threads that help hold a community together.

They respond in moments of crisis, walk alongside people through recovery, and create opportunities that strengthen lives every day. Their work is deeply local, rooted in relationships, and woven into the fabric of the CSRA. When we strengthen this network, we strengthen the entire region.

We’re supporting not only the ability to respond in difficult moments, but the capacity to grow, adapt, and thrive for generations to come. This is about more than grantmaking. It’s about creating a culture of shared investment, where generosity becomes a collective force and every person, business, and institution has a role to play in shaping the future of our community.

Learn more about what type of projects and programs receive funding through the Community Foundation for the CSRA’s Community Grants Program We Want to be Part of Your Story. We’re here to work with you to identify the charitable giving option that fulfills your philanthropic goals whether now or through a planned gift. Are you are grant seeker or grant reviewer?

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