[caption id="attachment_2509" align="alignleft" width="501"] Front Row: Jeff Pickering, Scott Alexander, Lalita Janke, Lauren Weaver Back Row: Ryan and Melissa Weaver[/caption] In 2012, as a sixth grade student, Lauren Weaver established “Lauren’s Way,” a project dedicated to helping people in our community at their most basic...

Thanks to the generosity of a special client, Indian River Community Foundation was able to help local nonprofit Every Dream Has a Price to provide Thanksgiving turkeys to a number of Wabasso and Fellsmere families in need this holiday. Julianne Price spoke at the Community...

A special musical performance by Grammy-nominated New Orleans songwriter and storyteller, Andrew Duhon. The concert is scheduled for Tuesday, December 12 at the Vero Heritage Center at 2140 14th Avenue, next to Pocahontas Park, in downtown Vero Beach. Doors open at 7:00pm (hosted beer/wine), and...

  Indian River Community Foundation encourages people interested in helping those affected by Hurricane Irma to donate to one or more of the hurricane relief funds listed here with the Florida Philanthropic Network. As for local giving opportunities, last week Indian River Community Foundation's team...

[caption id="attachment_2270" align="alignleft" width="400"] Bridget, Victoria, Madeline[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2272" align="alignleft" width="400"] Muck Traps collected from the Indian River Lagoon[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2287" align="alignleft" width="400"] ORCA Lab[/caption] By Jaci Ruppert Indian River Community Foundation recently issued a grant to Ocean, Research, Conservation Association (ORCA) to fund a...

A recent national survey ranked Indian River Community Foundation as the fourth most active grantmaker among all US community foundations, distributing 27% of its assets in calendar year 2016. The Columbus Survey, known as the census of the community foundation field, is administered by CF...

Indian River Community Foundation recently awarded a grant of $50,000 from the Community Enrichment Fund to the Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition. The grant will support a home visitation program, which is dedicated to reducing child abuse and domestic violence in Indian River County....

[caption id="attachment_2175" align="alignnone" width="750"] Photo Credit: Denise Ritchie[/caption] by Jeff Pickering "Bienvenidos!" This was the welcome I received from Laura Perez, Center Director of RCMA's Children's House as I arrived for a recent site visit. The tour was hosted by Larry Salustro, a long-time volunteer...

  [caption id="attachment_2022" align="alignnone" width="2048"] Brett Hall (Executive Director, Mental Health Collaborative), Bob and Ellie McCabe, Jeff Pickering (IRCF CEO)[/caption] Indian River Community Foundation was one of several charitable organizations invited to a Luncheon and Legacies celebration on Friday March 17th to celebrate the end...

Sparks were flying at IRCF's second "Spark Session" thanks to the energetic participation of Irinia Fernandez (Special Olympics), Iva Powell (Gifford Youth Orchestra), Kelly Sartain (The Buggy Bunch), Hannah Trodglen (Homeless Children's Foundation) and others. This one-hour idea lab was designed to generate ideas about...