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February 27, 2025
Heirs Property: Tackling a Silent Barrier to Home Ownership
Over the past nine years, The Community Foundation has granted over $1.6 million to foster inclusive prosperity in Jacksonville through its Supporting Neighborhoods initiative. A stand-out area of investment has been a body of work we call “heirs property,” led by local nonprofit partners including the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). To tell us more about this work, we welcomed LISC’s Kristopher Smith and John Sapora on our Forever Forward podcast.
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February 21, 2025
Remembering Shep and Mary Ann Bryan
J. Shepard “Shep” and Mary Ann Bryan loved Jacksonville, where they raised their five children, developed deep and abiding friendships, and prospered. For Shep, the act of giving back was an imperative inspired by his Christian faith. Mary Ann was an artist herself, who expressed the beauty and complexity of life through her work.
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January 30, 2025
Grantee Spotlights: Program Staff Share the Grants that Stood Out in 2024
Each year, The Community Foundation makes about $2 million in Foundation-directed grants to nonprofits in Northeast Florida, overseen by staff and the Program & Initiatives committee of the Board of Trustees.
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January 17, 2025
Forever Forward Podcast: Making Jacksonville an Arts Destination
Marsha Hatcher, a multidisciplinary visual artist who has exhibited her work and helped to build a more vibrant arts community in Northeast Florida for three decades, has been honored with the 2024 Ann McDonald Baker Art Ventures Award.
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The Community Foundation in the News
June 27, 2024
Delores Barr Weaver makes ‘extraordinary’ $61 million gift to Jacksonville-area nonprofits
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February 25, 2021
Fort Mose’s ‘Flight to Freedom’ to Become Year-Round Black History Trail in St. Augustine
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January 14, 2021
Art Ventures Turns 30! Cummer Exhibit Celebrates Three Decades in Investment in Jacksonville Art
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Stories
February 21, 2025
Remembering Shep and Mary Ann Bryan
J. Shepard “Shep” and Mary Ann Bryan loved Jacksonville, where they raised their five children, developed deep and abiding friendships, and prospered. For Shep, the act of giving back was an imperative inspired by his Christian faith. Mary Ann was an artist herself, who expressed the beauty and complexity of life through her work.
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January 30, 2025
Grantee Spotlights: Program Staff Share the Grants that Stood Out in 2024
Each year, The Community Foundation makes about $2 million in Foundation-directed grants to nonprofits in Northeast Florida, overseen by staff and the Program & Initiatives committee of the Board of Trustees.
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December 26, 2024
Forever Forward Podcast: Urban Forestry
The term “urban forest” may sound like an oxymoron. But the newest episode of our podcast, Forever Forward, offers insights into why it’s an aspiration rather than a contradiction. In this episode, Isaiah Oliver sat down with Anne Coglianese, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Jacksonville, and Valerie Feinberg, Executive FUSE Fellow, to learn how their work is helping protect our region from the impacts of climate.
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November 7, 2024
Forever Forward Podcast: 20th Anniversary of the Eartha M.M. White Fund
In this episode of Forever Forward, community stewards Gregory Owens and Cleve Warren sat down with TCF’s Vice President of Civic Leadership, Wanda Willis to discuss the Eartha M.M. White Legacy Fund. The endowed fund was created by the sale of Eartha M.M. White’s nursing home, and is celebrating its 20th anniversary here at The Community Foundation.
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