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Who We Are
Niagara Community Foundation is your philanthropic partner since 2000, helping to connect donors with causes, and communities to resources.
Our work is guided by five principles:
- Enable, collaborate and transform
Enable community improvement by providing funds and community knowledge. Bring organizations together to form partnerships based on the respective strengths of each organization to focus on key community issues. - Demonstrate philanthropic leadership
Demonstrate expertise and best practice in philanthropic leadership. - Put Niagara first
Communicate and support the Niagara story. Build community leadership. Seek and develop individuals who will bring leadership to the community. - Be trustworthy, transparent and accountable
Engage in practices that are open, accessible, fair, objective, flexible, timely, accountable and measurable and built on a foundation of respect, trust, integrity and honesty. - Ensure sound governance and management
Ensure that the Niagara Community Foundation governance and management are sound, relevant, and realizes its full fiduciary responsibility. This includes maintaining our accreditation with Imagine Canada.
Niagara Community Foundation is one of 191 community foundations under the umbrella of Community Foundation's Canada.
To learn more about our history and how NCF got started in 2000, click here to read the story.
