The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation works to solve our community’s greatest challenges by providing grants and scholarships, and by helping individuals, families, and organizations create their charitable legacy.
Since 1972, locals have turned to us as a partner in philanthropy to help make more possible for the place we call home.
Make More Possible
Your generosity can do more here.
When you give through the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, your generosity becomes part of something bigger — a permanent resource dedicated to strengthening the community we call home.
For more than 50 years, GLCF has connected generous people with opportunities to make a difference across Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell.
We know this community. We know the organizations doing important work. And because we are here for the long term, we can help your giving make an impact today — and for generations to come.
Make More Possible With Your Giving
Giving should reflect what matters to you.
Whether you want to support organizations you love, respond to changing community needs, establish a scholarship, involve your family in giving, or create a charitable legacy, GLCF can help you find the right approach.
With more than 330 charitable funds entrusted to our care, we connect donors with flexible, meaningful ways to make an impact close to home.
Local Knowledge
Our focus is right here.
We work every day with nonprofits, donors and community leaders throughout our region. That gives us a close-up view of both the challenges facing our community and the organizations working to address them.
When you give through GLCF, that local knowledge becomes part of your philanthropy — helping you discover needs, opportunities and organizations you may not otherwise encounter.
Giving That Fits You
There is no single right way to give.
Create a donor advised fund. Establish an endowment. Support a favorite nonprofit. Fund a scholarship. Make a gift through your estate. Give appreciated assets. Or entrust GLCF to direct your charitable dollars where our community needs them most.
We can help you turn what matters to you into a giving plan that works now and well into the future.
Here When Our Community Needs Us
Community needs change. Our commitment does not.
Because GLCF is built for permanence, charitable resources created today will continue supporting our community decades from now.
Our unrestricted funds also give us the flexibility to respond as new challenges and opportunities emerge — directing resources where they can make a meaningful difference.
A Legacy That Stays Local
An endowed gift to GLCF does not simply make one grant. It becomes a permanent source of support for our community.
The principal is invested, a portion is granted each year, and the fund continues growing and giving over time.
That means the generosity of one person today can help educate students, strengthen nonprofits, care for neighbors, enrich our community and meet needs we cannot yet imagine.
One Community. Generations of Impact.
This is our home, too.
We exist for one purpose: to help people who care about this community make it stronger.
Together, we can make more possible — today, tomorrow and for generations to come.
