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Donor Services

Working as a partner with prospective donors, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation can help donors support their favorite charitable programs, identify and evaluate new giving opportunities and learn about current areas of need in the community.

Managing Your Fund
As a community foundation, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation offers a variety of resources to help you manage your fund. The staff is always available to answer in-depth questions about your fund, offer guidance on charitable giving decisions, and connect you to community needs.

12 Reasons to Give to your Community Foundation

  1. We are a regional community foundation focused on enriching lives of people on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

  2. We provide personalized service tailored to your charitable and financial interests.

  3. Our funds help you invest in the causes you care about.

  4. We accept a wide variety of assets and can facilitate even the most complex forms of giving.

  5. We partner with professional advisors to create highly effective approaches to charitable giving.

  6. We offer maximum tax advantages for most gifts.

  7. We multiply the impact of your gift by investing it with other gifts.

  8. We build endowment funds that benefit our community forever and help create personal legacies.

  9. Through our affiliation with The Norfolk Foundation we have access to over 55 years of expertise in scholarship and grant administration.

  10. We are a community leader working to make positive changes on the Eastern Shore.

  11. We partner with other local organizations to meet the needs of the Eastern Shore community.

  12. We help donors create an individual or family legacy with prudent stewardship and investment practices.
     

Giving Ideas and Resources
Our newsletter and annual report are excellent resources for learning about other donors’ interests, contemporary issues, special initiatives and successful nonprofit programs on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.


Contacts

David M. Parker, Executive Director
dmparker@esva.net
(757) 789-0910
or
E. Polk Kellam, Jr., Chairman
(757) 442-5811 ext. 12
 

 

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