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Mission Statement

“Helping donors achieve their charitable goals for the benefit of the Texas Hill Country”.
Bandera, Gillespie, Kendall and Kerr Counties.

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country is a nonprofit, community corporation created by and for the people of the Texas Hill Country. We are here to help our donors do good work…Forever. The foundation was established in 1982 for the benefit of Kerr County. In 2000 the Community Foundation expanded its geographic reach to serve a larger Hill Country area including Fredericksburg, Comfort, Medina, Kerrville, Ingram, Hunt, and Center Point.

A community foundation has three distinct features and it is the combination of these features that provide unique opportunities for donors and our community. The first feature is a permanent endowment. Permanent endowment means the foundation invests and protects donor's gifts, distributes earnings via grants, builds permanent community capital to meet the needs of future generations, and creates legacies for donors. In this way each donor's gifts works within our community today and tomorrow.

The second distinct feature is its broad and flexible purpose. The Community Foundation monitors all areas of community needs in the Hill Country today and tomorrow including arts, education, youth, seniors, community services, health care, and rehabilitation needs. The foundation's knowledge of the community is one of the greatest services we can provide our donors. We can help our donor's maximize the impact of their gifts in our community.

The third distinct feature of a community foundation is personalized giving. To help our donors have the greatest flexibility, the Community Foundation accepts a variety of gifts including cash, stocks, property, and bequests. In addition donors have the opportunity to be involved in establishing a fund in their name or the name of a loved one. Donors can give what they want, how they want, when they want…and receive maximum tax advantages.

The first community foundation established in Texas was in 1929 - the Dallas Foundation. Today there are 25 community foundations in the state of Texas that collectively hold more than $1.1 billion in endowed funds. These foundations distribute in excess of $82 million annually in local grants and are a part of the fastest growing field in philanthropy today with more than 650 community foundations operating across the United States.

We invite you to join the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country…your community foundation…in providing a platform for building our community…For good. For ever.^SM

From The Director :

A Busy and Exciting Year So Far in 2010

2010 has been nonstop action with the Community Foundation! We started out with our January Board Meeting with four new trustees in place. They are John Carlson, Betty Mosty, Mark Tushak, and Chris Wallendorf. We are excited to have them on our board!

On January 28^th over 160 attendees participated in the pre Snow Ball gala Ice Breaker event held at the beautiful hill top event center at RivenRanch in Comfort, Texas. January 30^th was the bi-annual black tie gala Snow Ball held at the Cailloux Activity Center on the Schreiner University Campus in Kerrville. More than 320 participants enjoyed an evening of learning about the twenty-five selected non profits, wonderful food and great dance music.

The Buckhorn Lake Resort in Kerrville, Texas was the sight for the Hill Country Nonprofit Summit X held May 4, 5 & 6^th. The Summit was hosted with our conference partner Bank of the Hills. The Key-Note Speaker Sponsor is Broadway National Bank. In addition our supporting sponsors are Guadalupe National Bank, Hill Country State Bank, Joseph Financial Partners, Security State Bank & Trust, Davidson, Freedle, Espenhover & Overby, PC, Community Foundation Trustees: Paul Urban, Sherrie Gold, & Chaille Hawkins. The event provides a variety of workshops relating to the management of nonprofits.

May is also a busy month for the Community Foundation with the distribution of scholarship awards from the various scholarship funds held at the Community Foundation. The awards are personally given to the recipients during the various awards programs at the designated high schools in the four county hill country region that we serve.

As you can see, we are engaged in a variety of activities that positively impact our communities this year. We remain optimistic about the economic and charitable giving future of the hill country region.

The Board of Trustees and staff are looking forward to working with all our partners during 2010 to assist our communities in positive and constructive ways.

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