Community Grants/Unrestricted Funds

Community Grants/Unrestricted Funds enable the Foundation to respond to changing community needs and emergencies, support the creation of innovative responses to community problems, and enhance the quality of community life. Donors allow flexibility in how these funds are to be used, enabling the Board of Governors to meet emerging community needs. Dade Community Foundation uses a percentage of these funds each year to award grants to local nonprofits.
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Colonel Wolfson Fund Colonel Mitchell Wolfson, Sr., (1900-1983) was an early supporter of Dade Community Foundation, and a member of the founding Board of Governors. In 1969, he established a fund which he continued to endow throughout his lifetime and which is funded in perpetuity through a provision in his will. The Colonel shared the Foundation's goals of serving the community's charitable needs and bringing its diverse groups together to address the problems of cultural alienation.

Judges Edith M. & Henry Atkinson Fund Dade Community Foundation received one of its finest compliments when Edith M. Atkinson, elected as Dade County's first woman judge in 1924, said her Foundation Fund was the best contribution she and her husband could make to their community. Wishing to continue supporting community programs in perpetuity, she left the residual portion of her estate to the Foundation to create this community grants/unrestricted fund.

Field of Interest Funds

Field of Interest Funds enable donors to support areas of specific interest. The Foundation's Board of Governors makes grants from these funds annually according to the donor's interests. The selected program areas are education, health and human services, the environment, arts and culture, social justice, or community building projects. Grants are made from these permanent funds to the most appropriate organization within the donor's field of interest.
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Hsu Investment Charitable Fund The Hsu Investment Charitable Fund was made possible by a contribution of stock from Dr. Jane Hsiao. Her commitment to education, which she expressed through establishing this field-of-interest fund, expands our children's opportunities for learning by providing support to organizations focused on early education, at-risk children, promotion of scholastic achievement, after school tutoring, one-on-one mentoring and excellence in the public schools.

Rosalind R. and Sidney Ludwig Fund The Ludwigs established this charitable fund to support their philanthropy. The late Mr. Ludwig invented the push button radio and the car antennae. Rosalind Ludwig, a former education specialist, worked with exceptional and challenged students. Her devotion to these children resulted in the establishment of one of the school system's first gifted classes. She continues to support many charitable causes. The Ludwig's fund perpetuates their history of giving by continuing to support Rosalind's lifelong concern for the education and training of the physically and mentally severely handicapped.

Rena Lobl Fund Rena Lobl was a Holocaust survivor who lived in Vienna, Austria, during World War II. Mrs. Lobl came to the U.S. with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Her friends remember her as very charitable, full of life, good-hearted, intelligent, and witty. Before she passed away in 1996, Mrs. Lobl decided that she wanted her estate to benefit people less fortunate than herself. Through her will, she established this field of interest fund to aid agencies which assist the homeless.

Jean T. Robinson Memorial Fund Jean T. Robinson was an independent woman in an era when female independence was the exception rather than the rule. She was an astute businesswoman, a pilot, an avid boater, and a philanthropist. The Jean T. Robinson Memorial Fund distributes grants for research about the cause and treatment of heart disease and for the care of neglected or homeless animals.

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