Peer-led Philanthropy | Rochester, NY
All are welcome to attend the Rochester Children’s Scholarship Fund (RCSF) Annual Reception at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, at City Hall (30 Church St. in Rochester.) RCSF provides stipends, support and linkages to services for high achieving, low-income primarily minority Rochester City School District high school students. 100% of the RCSF scholars graduate from high […]
Katherine Warren, youth program director, welcomed us into Cameron Community Ministries and began by sharing the non-profit’s mission: to provide hope through emergency services, engagement, education and empowerment to the greater Lyell-Otis neighborhood. She explained how NextGen’s grant money had been used to provide after school programs to students in reading and math — a […]
Did you get any new toys over the holidays – a new cell phone, printer, mp3 player, etc? Wondering what to do with your old or busted technology? Or maybe you have some spent ink or toner cartridges laying around to get rid of. You want to do the environmentally-friendly thing, but you just haven’t […]
Come help us kick off our 5th year of friendship, philanthropy, and strengthening greater Rochester! Since 2009, NextGen members have met many new friends (including some community leaders), learned more about our region, and distributed grants totaling $43,480 to 22 different nonprofits. Through NextGen, we are demonstrating the exponential power of working together to build […]
NextGen’s 5th Annual Open House will be on Wednesday, January 16th from 6-8pm at the Community Foundation offices (500 East Ave., Rochester). Join us for an opportunity to learn more about NextGen, celebrate our past successes, and kick off our 5th year!!
NextGen Rochester is awarding $9,000 in grants to support high-impact nonprofit programs in Greater Rochester for 2012. This giving circle of young professionals, which pools its resources for annual grantmaking, also recently announced a campaign to raise an endowment for NextGen — an effort supported in part by a $5,000 challenge grant from the Community […]
Please consider joining us at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd., Rochester) on Monday, November 5th for NextGen Rochester’s 4th Annual Meeting. At this community event, we will hear from local nonprofits that have made it to the final round of NextGen’s annual competitive grant process. This is a wonderful opportunity for these local nonprofits to tell […]
Our biggest event of the year, our annual meeting is what NextGen is all about! An often inspiring, eye-opening, and informative event – this is an open invitation for the community to hear from 8 organizations looking to receive grant support from NextGen. This is a great chance for you to hear their stories – […]
NextGen requests proposals for its fourth round of Community Grants. These grants will assist organizations working to improve Greater Rochester. NextGen Rochester was founded in 2009 and is a peer-led form of philanthropy. The members are an emerging generation of citizens who make “giving back” part of their lives through leadership, friendship, and philanthropy. NextGen […]
Simply stated, giving circles are a form of shared giving where a group of people pool their resources to make an impact in their community. Participants collectively decide what organizations or programs to fund and are generally more involved in the giving process than simply writing a check. They may be organized around a set […]