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Welcome to the Community Foundation for greater manchester, we are an independent non-profit organisation. Our mission is to channel funding and undertake community leadership and partnership activities. The Community Foundation for Greater Manchester is one of over 60 community foundations across the United Kingdom and of over 1000 worldwide.A community foundation supports local communities and the family by providing a channel for philanthropy donors to invest trust money in local community activities and offering an accessible way for local people and family members to apply for these philanthropy funds. Its long term aim is to build an endowment fund, by investing donations to ensure communities will benefit in perpetuity. The concept hails from the United States, where over a hundred years ago, local philanthropists pulled together existing, but dormant funds under the banner of community foundations. In order to ensure that these funds would benefit communities for then and in future, the capital was invested and only interest gained was given out in grants. The Community Foundation for Greater Manchester was founded in 1989 as the Community Trust and for the first decade remained a relatively small grant-maker, distributing around £80k per year to small local groups and projects. Over the last 6 years, and following a name change to the Community Foundation, our focus has been on increasing the number of funds we manage and over £12m have been awarded to improve the lives of the communities of Greater Manchester. The Community Foundation accepts applications by locally based community and voluntary groups as well as individuals who would like to run projects for their local community. In general our grants are for small, locally run community or voluntary groups, or individuals who seek to improve the circumstances in economically/socially excluded areas in Greater Manchester facing disadvantage. These areas should lie in one of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester; these are: BOLTON, BURY, ROCHDALE, OLDHAM, SALFORD, STOCKPORT, TAMESIDE, TRAFFORD, WIGAN and MANCHESTER. The Community Foundation’s primary purpose is to encourage and support grass-root community activity. This means small, community-based and locally controlled groups that manage themselves, encourage active participation from volunteers, usually have minimal cash reserves and limited access to funding support. Corporate social responsibility is a means of giving by which it is possible to give financial support and receive tax-relief.We operate throughout greater manchester including the following areas: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
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