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Community Foundation of Henderson County
Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi
Eyesight Foundation of Alabama
Foundation Source Charitable Foundation
High Point Community Foundation
Living Well Foundation
McClure Family Foundation
Patterson Foundation
Irene W. & C.B. Pennington Foundation
Spartanburg Christian Community Foundation
Wal-Mart Foundation

39th Annual Meeting CLICK TO REGISTER!
The 39th SECF Annual Meeting
November 12-14

Guest Memberships

Be Our Guest!
Did you know that SECF offers a guest membership? If you are an eligible foundation, you can try us out and receive all the benefits of membership, including the member rate to all of our meetings! [more...]

New Publication

Thinking About Things
In his columns from our Interchange newsletter, SECF President Martin Lehfeldt has waxed poetic, practical, funny and poignant - and has always delivered a new kernel of wisdom to eager readers. Now, SECF has collected 10 years of "Thinking About Things" in a single volume. Click here to order! Proceeds from the sale of this book will go directly to support the work of SECF.

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Hot Topics

  • Connections
    Latest Connections!
    An Opinion on Private Foundations, Pre-K Reports and Awards, Reports for Children Funders, High School Drop Outs and Economic Gardening.


  • Closing Speaker
    Juan Williams in Asheville!
    Juan Williams is an Emmy Award–winning American writer, and radio and television correspondent. He is a Senior Correspondent at National Public Radio, has written at length for The Washington Post, and regularly appears as a contributor on Fox News and PBS. Mr. Williams will share a political “insider’s” view of what the future may hold for foundations and for our country and address how the recent election might affect philanthropy and foundation grantmaking in America.
  • New Report
    Project Streamline
    Nonprofit organizations and foundations alike are beginning to stagger under the weight of a grant application and reporting system that needs fixing, according to this new report commissioned by Project Streamline, a coalition of organizations representing both grantmakers and grantseekers, including SECF. The goal is to create a set of principles to inform grantmakers’ decisions about their information gathering practices.


  • Interchange
    Interchange is here...
    Large funders in small towns; third quarter financial outlook; Wiregrass Foundation and the Miracle League; SECF programs in review: Hull Fellows, Family Foundations, Corporate Summit; Policy Watch; "My Turn at the Mike" with new SECF CEO Mike Howland

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