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ABOUT US

The Ivy Community Service Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit tax-exempt organization. 

The Foundation was established in 1998 to respond to the needs of the community by offering exemplary service initiative and progressive programs. Contributors and supporters of community service programs and fundraisers sponsored by the Foundation are able to receive the benefits of tax exemption for their contributions. Funds raised by and through the Foundation finance programming efforts in educational advancement as well as community service programs that target the following areas: the arts, economics, education, family and health.


Since incorporation, the Foundation has donated over $50,000 in academic and need-based scholarships.  Recipients of Foundation funded grants and contributions have included Dress for Success, Raleigh Rescue Mission, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Pretty in Pink Foundation, American Cancer Society, the Carying Place, MATCH (Mothers And Their CHildren) Program, and Thanksgiving and Christmas Cheer.


Signature community service programs sponsored by the Foundation include the Minority Business Expo, Women @ Work Networking Retreat, Cultivating Adolescent Potential (CAP) Mentoring Program, Earn, Save, & Prosper Financial Workshop for middle school students, Emerging Young Leaders Mentoring Program, Art 4 Everyone, and Habitat for Humanity/Women Build.
The Pearls With A Purpose Charity Gala is the Foundation’s signature fundraising event. For 12 years, the Foundation and the Sigma Tau Omega Chapter have hosted an evening of Jazz, Soul, and Rhythm & Blues.  For the Foundation, the Gala serves as a showcase of its community service commitment to the citizens of Cary, North Carolina and western Wake County by highlighting its grant recipients and beneficiaries of the generous contributions received from its supporters.

Annual Reports

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ARTS

  • Heighten awareness of the visual, performing, and literary arts

  • Support arts education and sponsor cultural enrichment program

ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

  • Promote economic empowerment and encourage financial planning

  • Support women and minority businesses

  • Promote and encourage entrepreneurship

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EDUCATION

  • Committed to aiding America’s youth in their pursuit of a higher education

  • Support high school and post-graduate students through scholarship awards

FAMILY

  • Focus on family values that promote unity and a sense of pride and heritage

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HEALTH

  • Educate and inform the community on health issues that disproportionately affect women and minority populations

  • Encourage healthy lifestyles

DONATIONS

 

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Make a tax-deductible gift online at www.icsfofcaryinc.org or mail a check to PO Box 461, Cary, NC 27512-0041.

Participate in your employer's matching gifts programs and designate the ICSFC, Inc. as the beneficary.

Ask your employer to add ICSFC, Inc. as a charity designation or on any lists of charitable organizations.

Provide in-kind donations through your employer or business for ICSFC, Inc,'s community programs.

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