– NOVEMBER 7 –
The Community Foundation of Broward is celebrating 40 years of creating BOLD Impact for Broward in 2024! Seeking to establish a local philanthropy champion for Broward, founders Libby and Jack Deinhardt and a volunteer leadership team launched the Community Foundation with a small group of volunteers in December 1984, entrusted to carefully invest and grow philanthropists’ gifts, directing grants that enabled their local impact to continue for generations. Today and forever, the Foundation provides community leadership, fosters bold philanthropy and builds permanent resources to tackle Broward’s biggest challenges. It partners with individuals, families and local organizat-ions to create personalized charitable funds that fuel game-changing philanthropy. As a grantmaking public charity, the Foundation provides leadership and resources to support solutions that make Broward a better place to call home for generations to come. Presently, the Foundation shepherds 532 charitable funds and, in over 40 years, it has provided nearly $200 million in support of student achievement, the arts, career readiness, seniors in need, HIV/AIDs prevention, equity and social justice, environmental resilience, health care, affordable housing, disaster relief, nonprofit empowerment and much more. To commemorate this special milestone, the Foundation is organizing initiatives throughout 2024, including extended festivities at its annual Community Builder Celebration, taking place at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale on November 7. Throughout the year, the Foundation will share photos, stories, videos and more that showcase how it was established and how its history shaped the exciting course it’s charting for the future. Additionally, the Foundation is awarding special “40 for 40: Spread the Love Grants” – $400,000 total to help 40 nonprofits make a BOLD impact for Broward.