Business & Corporate Giving

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Your business wants to make a difference.
We make it easier.
Arlington Community Foundation helps businesses of every size give more strategically, engage employees, and build stronger connections with the communities they care about. Whether you’re a small local business investing in Arlington or an international company supporting communities across the country, we bring the charitable tools, trusted relationships, and strategic guidance to help you increase your impact while reducing the work required to make it happen.
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“Arlington Community Foundation helped Nestlé transform its grantmaking approach to increase impact and reduce administrative burden, while providing invaluable strategic guidance for programming in Arlington and across the country.”

Dan McCabe
Senior Manager, Community Affairs
Nestlé

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You bring the priorities.
We’ll help build the approach.
You may be looking to organize your company’s giving, engage employees around shared interests, better understand local needs, support a trusted community event, or simply figure out where your business can make the greatest difference.

That’s where we come in.

For more than 30 years, Arlington Community Foundation has connected businesses, residents, and nonprofits to create lasting change. Our role as a charitable fund administrator, community convener, nonprofit partner, grantmaker, and driver of major community initiatives gives us a perspective that no commercial giving platform can provide.

We can help your business understand community needs, identify effective organizations and opportunities, and build an approach that reflects your goals. If your company gives beyond Arlington, our tools and guidance can support that work, too.

Start by telling us what matters to your business and what you hope to accomplish. We’ll help you find the right way forward, and the extent of our involvement is always up to you.
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Simplify your company’s giving
A corporate donor-advised fund can serve as the backbone of your charitable giving program. Your business contributes to one fund, recommends grants whenever it is ready, and leaves the administration and distribution to our team.

It’s a flexible option for businesses of any size, from a local company formalizing its community investments to a major corporation managing grants across the country. Your partnership also helps power Arlington Community Foundation’s work in the community through the administrative fees supporting our mission.
Sponsor something meaningful
Connect your business with some of Arlington’s most respected community events and programs. Opportunities include the annual Spirit Awards Luncheon, our scholarship reception, and events that bring together local women, LGBTQ+ community members, nonprofit professionals, and professional advisors.

Sponsorship helps keep important community experiences accessible while giving your business meaningful visibility and a chance to demonstrate its commitment to the community.
Engage your employees
Give employees and employee resource groups accessible ways to learn, volunteer, and connect with Arlington.

Opportunities include reviewing scholarship applications from local students, exploring more than 100 Arlington-serving organizations through our Nonprofit Directory, and participating in community groups focused on issues members care about.
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Let’s talk about what matters to your business.
You don’t need to know which fund, sponsorship, or engagement opportunity is right for you. Bring us your questions, priorities, or early ideas, and we’ll help you explore what makes sense.

Contact Christy Cole, Vice President & Chief Philanthropy Officer, at ccole@arlcf.org or 703-243-4785, ext. 206.
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