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However You’re Connected, There’s a Way to Get Involved

Everyone who loves the Adirondacks has a role in helping this special place thrive — and we can help you discover your own unique contribution. Since 1997, Adirondack Community Foundation has harnessed the collective generosity of thousands of Adirondackers to strengthen our communities, working at the connection point of donors, nonprofits, and everyone with a stake in our region’s future.

For Donors

Give with Purpose

We offer giving opportunities and charitable funds only a community foundation can provide.

For Nonprofits

Access Support

We provide opportunities for funding, connection, and capacity-building.

For the COMMUNITY

Connect & Learn

We are a resource for information and insight into the human landscape of the Adirondack region.

Our Impact

ACF by the Numbers

Since 1997, our community has come together to create meaningful, lasting change
across the Adirondacks.

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For more information about giving back to the Adirondacks through the community foundation or to discuss ideas, get in touch with us.

Ariel shot of bridge across river
Photo credit: Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism

Our Mission

Adirondack Community Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to improve lives and expand opportunities throughout the Adirondack region.

Our Work

Strengthening What Makes the Adirondacks Thrive

Our Strong Community Framework guides how we invest in the region, focusing on the core areas that shape opportunity, resilience, and quality of life across Adirondack communities.

The Framework focuses on:

News & Insights

How People, Ideas, and Impact Come Together

Child care is everyone’s business

Business and child care leaders from five counties gathered to engage the business community in treating child care as economic infrastructure.
Child care is everyone’s business

Reflecting on five years of ACF’s impact investing

Since 2021, Adirondack Community Foundation has been practicing “place-based impact investing,” which is the practice of making investments in our communities to generate positive social, economic, or environmental impact alongside…
Reflecting on five years of ACF’s impact investing

Birth to Three helps launch regionwide child care survey of employers

Survey data will help quantify the need and build the case for child care investment across the Adirondack region.
Birth to Three helps launch regionwide child care survey of employers

A place to call home in Tupper Lake

Middle-market workforce housing units came online this fall in Tupper Lake, built by the Northern Forest Center and with financial support and a loan from Adirondack Community Foundation.
A place to call home in Tupper Lake

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Whether you’re giving, applying, or exploring opportunities, we’ll help you move forward.