Grantseekers
Communication Guidelines for Grantees
How to Share the Good News of Your Grant
If you’ve recently received funding through The Community Foundation, congratulations! These guidelines are designed to help you communicate about your good news.
The Community Foundation welcomes you to publicize your grant via news release, social media, website updates or blog posts, presentations or e-newsletters. The following guidelines are designed to help.
- If you choose to announce your grant, please use the resources below. You’ll see there are different logos and boilerplates for various areas of grantmaking, specifically our Collective Giving initiatives and grants being made through The Community Foundation on behalf of funds established by Delores Barr Weaver.
- Some of our grantees find that announcing grants is helpful to their missions, by building awareness of their work and recognizing the donors who made these grants possible.
- If you choose to announce your grant, please use the resources below, including logos and boilerplate for The Community Foundation as well as our collective giving initiatives and funds established by Delores Barr Weaver.
- If you use social media to post information about your TCF-funded project and activities, please share with/tag our social sites (Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Instagram); our handle is @cfjacksonville. We love to highlight your success and raise awareness about the opportunities for local donors to give back in Northeast Florida.
- We invite you to send us photos of work this grant supports—one to three high quality, high resolution .jpg files would be ideal, emailed to Stephanie Garry Garfunkel (sgarfunkel@jaxcf.org). Make sure any participants who appear in the photo have appropriate media release documents (if you need a standard photo release form, let us know—we’ll be happy to send it to you.) A few sentences giving some context to the photo would be helpful, and of course, your name and contact information.
Boilerplate Language & Logos
Boilerplate:
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida (www.jaxcf.org), Florida’s oldest community foundation, works to stimulate philanthropy to build a better community. The Foundation helps donors invest their philanthropic gifts wisely, helps nonprofits serve the region effectively, and helps people come together to make the community a better place. Since its inception in 1964, the Foundation has received more than $1 billion in gifts and made more than $750 million in grants. For more information: www.jaxcf.org
Boilerplate:
Delores Barr Weaver has an extraordinary legacy of philanthropy in Northeast Florida since moving to Jacksonville as co-owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1993. Since her historic gift of $50 million in 2012 establishing the Delores Barr Weaver Legacy Fund, she has partnered with The Community Foundation on her philanthropy through numerous, multi-million dollar gifts, including the Foundation’s largest-ever gift of $61 million in 2023. She has established designated funds for more than four dozen nonprofits, including 20 that receive ongoing annual support through the Delores Barr Weaver Forever Event Fund, est. 2015. Today, her grantmaking exceeds $209 million, with support for more than 300 organizations in Northeast Florida and beyond.
Boilerplate:
Delores Barr Weaver established this Fund in 2015 to provide a $10,000 grant annually to support a premiere fundraising event in perpetuity at 20 local nonprofit organizations. This grant will provide a permanent source of income for organizations that Mrs. Weaver has generously supported for many years. It is her hope that other individuals will make similar permanent gifts to organizations that have been important to them. This Fund is one of a collection of Funds established by Delores Barr Weaver at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. Mrs. Weaver has an extraordinary legacy of philanthropy, and she has provided transformative support to dozens of nonprofit organizations that uplift, enlighten and advance our community.
Initiative Logos and Boilerplate
The Women’s Giving Alliance logo and boilerplate can be found on their website, wganefl.org.
Boilerplate:
The A. L. Lewis Black Opportunity & Impact Fund is a collective giving initiative of The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. The Fund invests in solutions to advance equity, justice, and transformational change in Black communities, continuing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln Lewis, was a local entrepreneur, humanitarian and philanthropist who became Florida’s first African-American millionaire.
Boilerplate:
The LGBTQ Community Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida makes grants that support community organizations and institutions, so they can better serve the local LGBTQ community. Established in 2014, the fund has made over $1,000,000.00 in grants in Northeast Florida and invested $120,000 in local research and convenings to improve the lives of those in the LGBTQ community. An Advisory Board of local LGBTQ donors and allies set the grantmaking strategy and guide the work of the fund. To donate to the Fund, or for more information, visit https://www.jaxcf.org/lgbtq.
Boilerplate:
The Beaches Community Fund was established in 2015 at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, Florida’s oldest and largest community foundation. The fund was created by a group of donors who reside at or near the beaches of Northeast Florida, and together they have invested more than $2 million to preserve and enhance the quality of life for all Beaches residents from Mayport to Guana.
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