Durham Community Foundation

Dcf fosters philantropy by connecting donors volunteers and community leaders addressing durham’s challenges through research advocacy and collaboration. Acting as the voice for charities at multiple levels dcf provides vital support. Dfc researches and produces annual vital signs reports not only to make grant decisions based on actual data but also to inform the community of emerging needs. Offering more than just funding dcf’s role is to amplify the impact and provide support to local charities and nonprofits. Whether it is advocacy providing educational webinars helping charities in crisis when they have lost funding offering a peer-to-peer support group for executive directors to share concerns and find solutions collaboratively or championing #durhamgives back on givingtuesday to showcasing local organizations and nurturing a culture of philanthropy in durham. By purchasing a community licence to imagine canada’s grant connect dcf enables local charties and non profits to access to access to mre than 15 000 funders to increase their financial resources and capacity through new funding.