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The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation (CVCF) allows joyful givers to realize community dreams. Locally advised, CVCF is solely focused on the needs of the Chilkat Valley, which includes the Haines Borough and the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan. Approximately 2300 residents make their homes in the valley. In addition, numerous seasonal residents and visitors enjoy all the community has to offer.
The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation Advisory Board conducts its business on the original lands of the Tlingit people, which include the Chilkat Indian Village and the Chilkoot Indian Association. We pay our respects to the elders both past and present for their stewardship of these living lands. Chilkat Valley Community Foundation offers this acknowledgment as a path forward in sharing, learning, and working for a collective future.
The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation meets our community’s needs by increasing connections between people and the organizations that serve them. We have more than 75 nonprofits that serve all ages and provide educational, cultural, health, social, historical, environmental, recreational, and arts-related opportunities.
The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation works with donors to create “permanent funds” to benefit the Chilkat Valley. Your gifts will build long-term endowed funds, allowing you to invest in our community’s future and contribute to our quality of life.
You make a difference when you DONATE to Chilkat Valley Community Foundation!
Your donation will:
• Connect donors with causes they care about
• Support nonprofits through grants and educational training
• Catalyze community planning between individuals, organizations, and governments
Thanks to the generosity of CVCF Donors,
the Summits for Success $600,000 Operating Endowment goal has been met!
In April of 2022, the Advisory Board launched the “Summits for Success” operating endowment campaign, a multi-year fundraising effort to grow the Operating Endowment to $600,000 by 2029. In August of 2023, the end date of the campaign was changed to align with the goal that Affiliates become self-sustaining by 2026.
Thanks to your amazing response, the last peak in the Summits for Success Campaign was summited in Fall of 2024 and the $600,000 goal met in record time! Your investments are helping to ensure CVCF’s long-term sustainability! A portion of the returns on the Operating Endowment Fund, today and in the future, will provide income for operating expenses independent of support from The Alaska Community Foundation or Rasmuson Foundation. THANK YOU!
A Match Is Met – A New Match Is Created
A huge thank you to all who invested in CVCF since January 1st! Gifts to the CVCF Fund and the Operating Endowment Fund helped secure a $20,000 match from The Alaska Community Foundation and Rasmuson Foundation. Each gift makes a difference for years to come by increasing funds available to support local nonprofits and the work they do. And the matching dollars helped build CVCF’s operating endowment to support our ongoing program costs long into the future.
Our local nonprofits need our help more than ever as they work to continue to provide important services and programs to our community. Some have lost federal funding, all are dealing with rising costs, and the need for services in the Chilkat Valley continues to grow.
In response to these increasing community needs, the fourteen-member CVCF Advisory Board has created a new $17,500 match opportunity.
Your gifts to ANY of CVCF’s seven endowed funds, or to the endowed Art Jess Scholarship Fund, will qualify for this match while the board members’ donations will be invested in the Operating Endowment Fund. This means YOU can give to the fund(s) that speak loudest to your heart and help ensure CVCF’s long-term sustainability at the same time.
❤️ This new match is definitely a win-win opportunity! ❤️