Thank you for your unwavering support over the past decade. The Bermuda Foundation Board & Team, from left: Gavin Barlow, Dwayne Hunt, Marie-Hélène Paré, Sarah Marcotte, Brian O’Hara, Diana Darrell, Dr. Myra Virgil, Amanda Outerbridge, Lisa Simpson, Nikkita Scott & Grant Hopkins (Photograph by Stephen Raynor)
It’s been 10 years since the Bermuda Foundation began its work to build a community asset to support the nonprofit sector. Its arrival coincided with a decade of global crises and disasters of every kind imaginable: political, financial, racial, social, health (including, but not limited to, pandemic), and brutal wars. These major disruptions did not leave Bermuda untouched. Many in our own community have been directly and harshly affected by the fallout—and that has an impact on us all.
On our 10th anniversary, we want to thank everyone who has volunteered and worked with us, served on our committees, partnered with us on community impact initiative such as the Coordinated Crisis Response, and offered us discounted or pro-bono services.
The purpose of the Bermuda Foundation is to build and manage funds that will sustain the nonprofit sector long term and to inspire philanthropy for social impact. The nonprofit sector plays a crucial role in Bermuda, providing essential services in education, social welfare, health, sport, the environment, and the arts. Bermuda cannot afford to lose the services provided by its nonprofits.
With this in mind, the Foundation is building a community asset that will stand the test of time. To quote one donor advocate: “In creating a charitable endowment, we turn our wealth into a tool for good, ensuring that our resources contribute to positive change and address the evolving needs of our community.”
“You have championed a decade of amazing accomplishments and realised an important vision of a viable, local community foundation that is ensuring Chuck Feeney’s and the Atlantic Philanthropies’ legacy investment lives on.”
10th Anniversary Endowment Campaign
We are marking our 10th anniversary with a $2 million birthday gift – a match donation designed to raise $4 million for the Foundation’s work. This constitutes a major contribution to Bermuda’s nonprofit sector as a whole and demonstrates significant confidence in the work of the Foundation.
But we need your help, and we hope you’ll consider changing lives and changing worlds for our Bermuda community.
Community foundations create returns for emerging needs in dynamic ways, over time and as needed. We are building a community endowment. Every contribution to this endowment campaign will be matched dollar for dollar up to $2,000,000.
If you would like to make a contribution, please click here or send us an email at .
Thank you to all who are helping us to create an enduring source of funds forever dedicated to the good of Bermuda.
Over the past decade, the Foundation has helped secure $16 million in funding for local organizations since its inception in 2014. That is a remarkable achievement.
Those funds have translated into invaluable benefits for hundreds of Bermudians for educational programmes, community-based groups, and youth development schemes.
A student completes his GED…a future professional athlete receives new equipment for training…These stories add up to one greater society whose people truly believe their future is bright. They believe it because they see it.
It is an extraordinary achievement for the Bermuda Foundation to reach so many community organizations in just one decade. I can only imagine the impact it will have in the next 10 years.
Resources
Commemorative Events – Photo Galleries
Photographs by Stephen Raynor
Annual Gathering & Stakeholder Reception
April 9, 2024
Volunteer Reception
April 11, 2024
Nonprofit Reception
March 27, 2024
“The Foundation has become an integral and essential partner for every charity in Bermuda. The Foundation has served to help charities navigate their way through the complex world of donors and the responsibility charities have to those donors. Bermuda Diabetes Association is so grateful for all the help and support the Foundation has given over the past ten years.”
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