NEAFCS Endowment
National Giving Day - December 3, 2025
Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to support NEAFCS as an organization that is dedicated and committed to serving its members and advancing our profession. Giving Tuesday, which is the first Tuesday immediately following Thanksgiving, got its start in 2012 and is now a global phenomenon. This type of philanthropic framework is an easy way to start off your year-end charitable giving through a donation to our Endowment Fund.
It’s a way to not only give back but to help assure the vitality and scope of NEACS as a professional development organization by enabling it to more fully assist its members in doing the critical work they do in their communities via programming grants and Annual Session scholarships.
Endowment GRANT Project Proposals
Interested in submitting a project proposal to receive a grant awarded from the NEAFCS Endowment? Proposals are accepted annually through May 15th. The portal will re-open in late Summer. The NEAFCS Endowment has awarded over $25,400 in grants since 2021!
ENDOWMENT ANNUAL SESSION SCHOLARSHIPS
Interested in submitting an application to receive a scholarship to attend Annual Session awarded from the NEAFCS Endowment? Applications are accepted annually through May 15th. The portal will re-open in late Summer.
Click here to read the 2024 endowment scholarship recipient reflections.
Be NEAFCS Strong Endowment Fund Campaign Underway
 All we need to achieve our goal is for 1,000 members to donate $90 each!
Thank you Mackenzie DeJong from Iowa for designing the logo.
NEAFCS turns 90 in 2024. Help keep it strong, vibrant and positioned to provide ongoing benefits that will enable members to continue doing their critically important work in their communities and states. Our two-year Be NEAFCS Strong Endowment Campaign will culminate at our 90th Annual Session in Tucson, Arizona, in September 2024.
Our Endowment Fund has a principal balance in excess of $300,000 that is to be kept permanently in the fund. The income earned on this fund can be used to advance the mission of the association, such as awards, scholarships, and other projects and services recommended by the majority of the Endowment Committee and approved by the majority of the Board.
There are several ways you can contribute to our $90,000 goal. You can make a one-time contribution, you can make two annual contributions at this year’s Annual Session in Providence and next year’s, or you can make monthly or quarterly contributions over the course of the next two years.
When it comes to constructing something long-lasting – such as a building – you need to utilize materials that are durable and resistant – like hardwoods, bricks and stone, the materials pioneers used in settling our land. The same can be said about an endowment fund. In order to keep it durable, you need to keep infusing it with additional sources of funding.
In keeping with our building analogy and with a nod to our country’s construction heritage, we’ve identified the following giving categories:
- Wood – up to $99
- Brick -- $100-499
- Stone -- $500-999
- Marble -- $1,000–4,999
- Granite – Over $5,000
This campaign is all about keeping NEAFCS’s Endowment Fund financially positioned so it can keep fueling the profession -- its mission, its goals and, ultimately, its members. Help NEAFCS achieve its maximum strength so it can respond to the ongoing needs of you! All we need to achieve our goal is for 1,000 members to donate $90 each! This is do-able! Help us strengthen our Endowment’s foundation and keep NEAFCS viable, resilient and STRONG for decades to come.
Help insure a strong future for NEAFCS and Extension Family and Consumer Sciences programming and donate today. Contact one of the Endowment Committee Members to learn how to include NEAFCS in your will or estate plans.
Thank you to our Endowment Donors!
Click here to view current listing of NEAFCS Endowment Donors
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