In its more than 20 years of grantmaking, the Community Foundation has supported dozens of worthwhile community organizations and projects and hundreds of deserving students with scholarship assistance. With the inclusion of the 2022 awards, the foundation has returned more than $4,633,609 to the area since 1997 in grants and scholarships.
Below is information about the foundation’s Grants Program and Scholarships Program.
Lists of Grants and Scholarships for the last several years can be found at the bottom of the page.
The Community Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 75 grants for 2022. These awards totaling more than $405,583 represent the foundation’s 24th annual grant cycle supporting local nonprofit groups.
Applying for Grants in 2023
We are making changes to the Grants process, therefore, please wait to apply until that process is completed later in January or early February.
You may download the Guidelines and Application with these links:
With the inclusion of the 2022 awards, the foundation has returned $2,944,622 to the area since 1997 in grants.
The Grants Committee is chaired by Kathleen Blaydes and is composed of Mary Jo Babbitt, Marie Blackwell, Deborah Garton, Craig Hammond, Kermit Moore, Doris Sue Kantor, and Peter Taylor.
The Board of Directors of the Community Foundation met in May, 2022. It approved 135 scholarship recommendations for 99 recipients totaling $408,200 in awards from the Scholarship Committee.
These students are graduating seniors at high schools in Mercer, McDowell, and Fayette counties in West Virginia, and Tazewell County, Virginia, or are college students who have been awarded a scholarship on a continuing basis.
The awards came from 37 individual scholarship funds and benefit students from Bluefield, Graham, Montcalm, Pikeview, Princeton, Tazewell, and Richlands high schools, as well as several existing college students who qualified for awards to continue their education. The scholarships help students attending 27 colleges and universities.
Scholarship recipients are chosen through a competitive application process by the Scholarship Committee. Members of the Committee are Gene Bailey, Tom Chaffins, and Deborah Garton.
The 2023 Scholarship Application period will begin in February.
Some scholarships will have a blue circle icon with an “i” in it. Hold your mouse over this icon for important information about this scholarship’s requirements.
To begin the application process, follow this link, and follow the instructions for “Create New Account.”
If you have any trouble with the online application, email execdir@cfvinc.org with an explanation of your problem. We will respond as promptly as possible to your problem.
If you have questions about scholarships offered by the Community Foundation that are not answered on the Web site, please contact the Foundation office (304) 324-0222 or email: admin@cfvinc.org.
