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In keeping with its mission, Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice funds grants and programs that are designed to contribute significantly to improving quality of life for citizens in the communities it serves. Foundation funding is organized around these key areas:
Includes the enjoyment and understanding of various art forms as well as significant cultural or historic resources. These program areas might promote, enhance, expand, or improve:
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- Arts and culture heritage and institutions
- Preservation of and access to historically significant community assets
- Creative and educational experiences for traditional and new audiences
- Capacity and stabilization of arts and culture organizations
- Effective arts in education
- Access to and awareness of the arts, especially to low-income populations
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Includes engaging, strengthening, and building the capacity of nonprofit organizations, public organizations, and groups to address community, neighborhood, and economic issues and opportunities. These program areas might promote, enhance, expand, or improve:
- Housing
- Workforce development
- Community improvement/capacity building
- Private-public partnerships
- Citizen awareness and participation
- Economic or civic well being of the community
- Volunteerism
- Public/social benefit activities
- Strong neighborhoods
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| Formally constituted educational institutions and organizations or activities that administer or support those institutions; libraries; organizations whose primary purpose is to provide opportunities for supplementing and continuing education and related services to students and schools outside the framework of formal education institutions. Includes the continuum of learning; early childhood, preschool, primary and secondary grades, higher education, vocational education, and continuing and adult education as well as parent training, academic enrichment, school-based student support services, library services, community involvement in schools, and adult literacy. These program areas might promote, enhance, expand, or improve:
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- District or school leadership, teaching and parent involvement
- Strategic initiatives of area schools, colleges, and universities
- Educational attainment of children and adults, in the classroom and out
- Access to learning opportunities
- Specific skills to a particular population
- Homework assistance
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Includes preservation of the environment, natural resources, and wildlife. These program areas might promote, enhance, expand, or improve:
- Environmental education
- Environmental quality/beautification
- Environmental protection/conservation
- Wildlife
To improve physical and mental health status for persons of all ages; improve access to and quality of treatment services; promote health and wellness; promote the efficient use of healthcare resources, prevent disease, and improve health outcomes. These program areas might promote, enhance, expand, or improve:
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- Health care for indigent and uninsured
- Care for people with chronic conditions
- Community transition to managed care/capitation
- Healthy community and health safety net for uninsured/underserved persons
- Access to health services
- Community members in addressing local health needs
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Includes the support of family and individual development, and encompasses independent living and non-medical services for the elderly and individuals with disabilities; emergency services, including transitional and other services for the homeless; parenting skills; and human services for children and adolescents. Address the basic needs required by all and the special needs required by a few. Counseling, day care and senior centers, transportation providers, and those agencies that ease entering and leaving this life. These program areas might promote, enhance, expand, or improve:
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- Agencies that deliver critical human services
- Socioeconomically disadvantaged
- Basic needs such as food and shelter
- Family unit to help growth, development, youth sports and athletics
- Preventive care and improved access to services
- Services that develop skills and independence of people with special needs, including those with addictions, physical disabilities, and mental illness
- Services for those affected by a specific disease or ailment
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