Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation
502 1/2 Gloucester St., Suite 1, 
P. O. Box 938, Brunswick, GA  31520

 
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Welcome to The Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation

Welcome to our website!  We have designed it to reflect our style – comprehensive, engaging, and “user-friendly.”  We hope you will find the content both informative and thought provoking.

Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation is proud to be one of the newest members of the community foundation field – currently the fastest growing sector of American philanthropy.

Whether you are looking for ways to preserve and protect what is best about coastal Georgia, address current challenges and opportunities here, or help create the blueprint for a bright and fulfilling future for succeeding generations of coastal residents, we are ready to serve.


 
Congress Extends IRA Charitable Rollover PDF Print E-mail

IRA Charitable Rollover
(Revised October 3, 2008)


The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) permitted individuals to roll over up to $100,000 from an individual retirement account (IRA) directly to a qualifying charity without recognizing the assets transferred to the qualifying charity as income. On October 3, 2008, President Bush signed a bill (H.R. 1424) into law which will extend the IRA charitable rollover provision through December 31, 2009. Note that the new law only changes the termination date of the provision. No changes were made to the substance of the rules for qualified charitable contributions from IRAs.

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Lee Owen named to SECF Community Foundation Committee PDF Print E-mail

The Southeastern Council of Foundations represents over 350 grant making foundations ranging from small family foundations to corporate and community foundations in eleven southeastern states.  In August, SECF named Lee Owen, executive director of the Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation as the Georgia delegate to its community foundation committee.  The committee is charged with recommending policy and programs pertinent to community foundations to the SECF board of directors.

“This is a great honor for me, being so new to the community foundation field,” explained our director. 

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2008 Grant Awards PDF Print E-mail

The board of directors of the Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation recently selected the winners of the community foundation’s 2008 competitive grant cycle.  Ten local nonprofit groups in Coastal Georgia received grants ranging from $1,700 to $5,000.  The grants will be used for a variety of purposes, all of which will ultimately benefit the clients who use the nonprofits’ services.

The needs ranged from upgrading computer hardware and software in order to provide better information tracking, communication, and public access, to staff training and board development.  “We are pleased that the recipients ranged from food banks to environmental groups, and that 40% of the organizations selected served all three counties on which we focus,” explained the foundation chair, Dennie McCrary.  “A community foundation exists to improve the quality of life in a region by making grants and connecting donors to various types of charities.  We like to say that we give to causes from A to Z… the arts to zoology.”

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DonorsChoose! PDF Print E-mail

Connect with Classroom teachers and students and provide funding for critical needs directly to the classroom!  Search for a subject area, age group, or specific region, state, or school system for the project of your choice and then either fund it completely or partially and challenge other donors to give as well.

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